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“THE DIGNITY of those en-slaved women is not for sale.”

So says Cllr Gary Gannon(Soc Dem, North Inner City) toDublin City managers intent onselling the northside’s last sur-viving Magdalen Laundry.

Cllr Gannon described theentire Seán MacDermott Streetbuilding as a “sacred shrine” tothose who had, for over 150years, been physically, emotion-ally and financially abused byChurch and state.

Standing in the shadows ofthis last remaining penal laun-dry (active until 1995), theCouncillor said he had the votesto kill a City management bid tosell it to Japanese budget chainToyoko Inn.

“There’s such a thing as theethics of memory,” the Council-lor said, looking up at the build-ing which, he said, had hauntedhis youth in the inner city. It isjust a few yards east of O’Con-nell Street.

“As a nation, we are definedby what we choose to commem-orate — but also by how wechoose to commemorate it.”

hotelCity Council managers want

that memory to be simply aspace within a Toyoko Inn. Sur-prisingly, those managers listedthe site with New York–based es-tate agents Cushman & Wake-

field months before the legally-required Councillors’ vote. Asa result, C&W received theToyoko offer.

Yet under Section 83, sub-section 1, paragraph (b) of theLocal Government Act of 1943:

“…the local authority [asCouncillors] may resolve thatthe disposal shall not be car-ried out or that it shall be car-ried out in accordance withterms specified in the resolu-tion.” [Emphasis added.]

The Councillors’ vote — tosell or not to sell — is set totake place just as this editionhits the streets on Thursday,

September 13.Based on reliable Local

News sources, the sale toTokoyo Inns is likely to be de-feated by a margin of two toone.

The movement for a propermemorial has been growingsince the publication of JusticeJohn Quirke’s 2013 MagdalenCommission Report.

All the advocate groupsquoted in the document urgedthe creation of some form ofmemorial garden or monu-ment.

The Judge himself recom-mended “…the acquisition,

Pictured here are students from Beneavin College, all delighted with their brilliant results inthe Junior Certificate. (L-R) Dylan Byas, Kevin Cozma. Adam Ryan and Luke Norton.

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“Sacred Shrine”Wrongly Listed for Sale

maintenance and administra-tion of any garden, museum orother form of memorial.”

Justice Quirke did not spec-ify whether any such shrine ormemorial should be “stand-alone”; or simply a “space”within a commercial enter-prise.

Brendan Kelly, the Coun-cil’s Deputy Chief Executive,favours the commercial op-tion.

He says the Toyoko Innsdeal is a “unique opportunity”.The Council, he notes, wouldget €14½ million from the

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“The moneywould be pumpedinto infrastructure,half of it ring-fencedfor Seán MacDermottStreet area.”

scathiNgCllr Gannon is

scathing about this“afterthought” ap-proach honouring thememory of thewomen and girls whoscrubbed sheets, un-paid, in the MagdalenLaundry.

“There’s an ob-scene irony in thishotel idea,” he fumes.

He explained thatthe Toyoko Inn chainwas notorious for hir-ing many disadvan-taged women andpaying them mini-mum wage:

“Now they want tohonour one group ofexploited women bypossibly exploitinganother group!”

To back his cam-paign for a pure-and-simple memorial, hecites two nearby ex-amples: Moore Street,a work-in-progress;and the already-suc-cessful KilmainhamGaol.

“The relatives ofthe 1916 leaders werehorrified when theCity, and the ArtsMinister, wanted tomake the MooreStreet battlefield me-morial part of aPaddy-Power-and-Burger-King mini-mall,” Cllr Gannonrecalled.

“They were rightto fight for somethingmore dignified.”

As for the job-cre-ation carrot, he isequally scathing:

“One, those hotelchains have zerotrack record for hiringlocally, and if they doin this case, it will beat minimum wage.”

Secondly, hepoints out, stand-alone “dark tourism”sites pay for them-selves, as in the caseof Kilmainham Gaol.It’s doing well, and ina far-lower-traffic lo-cation in Dublin 8.

kilmaiNhamInternational visi-

tors, he points out,have shown that theyrespect cultures thatmemorialise theirmistakes and theirtragedies:

“That’s true ofmassive horrors suchas Auschwitz, and

local sorrows such asthe execution of the1916 leaders in Kil-mainham.”

The resulting 1916museum, he argues,

is both respectfuland, as it happens,profitable:

“You can actuallysee the results, eco-nomically. That entire

area — KilmainhamLane, Mount Brownand Inchicore Road—used to be run-downbut has since beentransformed.”

Kilmainham GaolMuseum, he says, hascreated dozens of per-manent, well-payingjobs, inside and out-side its walls.

Others outsideDublin agree. Cam-paigners in Sligo havejust announced a bidto turn their long-shuttered jail into amuseum. Such ef-forts, Gannon says,

can honour the deadwhile educating —and warning — theliving.

Meanwhile, LocalNews contacted Cush-man & Wakefieldwhose FOR SALEsigns appear at thesite. They did not re-turn our calls.

We also contactedthe City’s PropertyDisposals division.Their Executive Man-ager Paul Clegg wasnot available.

With a vote on thematter imminent,more than the Mag-dalen site is at stake,says Cllr Gannon:

“Is the Local Gov-ernment Act 1946 [re-quiring councillors’assent for a disposal]to be respected?” If so,

he says, City manage-ment should not haveallowed those FORSALE signs.

Gannon notes thathe and his fellow-campaigners wouldhave to win such avote every time theCity proposed a prop-erty sale. The City, onthe other hand, wouldonly have to win once.

“We have 10,000signatures saying thatthese women deserveto be respected andremembered,” henoted.

our “arbeit machtFrei”

He looked up atthe metalwork archinscription above the

Magdalen entrance:“That hideous

message, with itsboasts of ‘Charity’ and‘Refuge’, is Dublin’sArbeit Macht Frei.”

This is a referenceto the notorious signabove the entrance toseveral WWII concen-tration camps, mostnotably Auschwitz.These read, in Ger-man, Work Will MakeYou Free.

The great Jewishriposte to that ap-palling message mightbe the very inscriptionto dominate a futureMagdalen Memorial— perhaps even in thelanguage in which itwas originally written:םלועל אל דועOr, in English:

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THE GOOD news isthat Dublin doesn’thave a housingproblem.The bad news is

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when Local Newsvisited O’DevaneyGardens, just northeast of Phoenix Park,not far from Smith-field.The building of a

new, 600-unit com-plex here was“launched”, at a cer-emonial sod-turningon July 4 of this year.This was attendedby both Housing

SOD IT! The O’Devaney ceremony ten weeks ago, withMinisters Murphy and Donohoe

ROAD UP: a new road-straightening effort (blue linereplaced with orange) is all that’s planned for the sur-rounding 7½ acres (3 hectares) in fields (1) and (2).Used for housing, that land could quadruple the am-bition of (3), the proposed 600-unit O’Devaney project

HOLY SHOW: progress since the sod was turned

Minister EoghanMurphy and to showthat, this time, every-one was serious, Fi-nance MinisterPaschal Donohoe.Meanwhile O’De-

vaney has rubble butno rentals, diggersbut no builders,demolition but norenovation.

Nice aNd slowAnd when we say,

“demolition”, this isdemolition, Dublin-style. None of yourshowy Las Vegas ef-forts: you know,where the AladdinHotel implodes in1998, in five secondsflat, the cheers last-ing for fifty timeslonger than the job.

Here we takethings nice and slow:a digger, but no dy-namite.So far, in the 10

weeks since sod wasturned, two of thefour remainingblocks have been de-molished. Rubblesurrounds the re-maining two, withevery expectationthat, any day now,they too will be gen-tly eased to theground.But there’s an-

other puzzle to addto the slo-mo demo-litions skills of ourCity Bosses and theircontractors.Here, in Dublin 7,

in the otherwisedensely built retail-and-residential area

— in what is suppos-edly the most land-starved part of theentire country —there is land, landand still more land.Interestingly, the

little patch of turf onwhich the last re-maining O’Devaneyblocks are standingcomes to a merehalf-a-hectare (lessthan an acre), tops.(Counting the build-ings proper but notthe courtyard in be-tween, it’s even less.)

There is more thanseven times thatacreage, all going towaste, within astone’s throw of thosesoon-to-be-demol-ished buildings.

7½ acresOur map makes

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slowly into nearbyMontpelier Gardens,thence to the Cul DeSacs of the variousadjoining Montpe-liers.No south-bound

rat runs here.

beNtHowever, a help-

ful engineer on thesite showed me ex-actly why the newroadway was such avital necessity.

O’Devaney Gar-dens is bent.Not much. Not so

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But that’s it?

Yes, that’s it. Apartfrom the new com-plex of course. Sodalready turned. Oldflats already (half )demolished. Politi-cians already liningup for their secondphotocall — the onewhere the turned sodbecomes a new flat.Maybe two. Maybe

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rovers, who are new to the league this sea-son, certainly lay down an early challenge,keeping their cool to overcome kuBS – whohave just come down from the Super league -in a heart-stopping overtime battle.

“it was great to get the season started with awin,” said Tolka head coach, emmet geoghe-gan. “We got into foul trouble early which madeit difficult and kuBS did well to capitalise withtheir American. i was delighted with the re-sponse from the team to keep fighting until theend and bring the game to overtime. Then, wekept our momentum and the atmosphere fromthe crowd gave us a real boost to finish out thegame and win.”

in the other big Dublin derby, DBS Éanna –who have also just come down from the Men’sSuper league – got their season off to a win-ning start with a 62-78 point win on the roadover Abbey Seals Dublin lions.

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tributor to the Irish economy however, it hasrecently been reported they contribute €53million to the Irish Economy each year andnow they are facing extinction in many areasof Ireland. 75% of individuals are aware thatbees are threatened with extinction in Ireland.With this in mind, we conducted a nationallyrepresentative survey on 1,000 adults in Ire-land to discover how they feel about bees andmeasure that have been taken to help save thebees.Recent research by Dublin City University

and Trinity College Dublin has found thatIrish Heather Honey can be compared to NewZealand’s famous Manuka honey. The re-search showed that Irish heather honey hadthe highest TPC (Total Phenolic Content) ofall the Irish Single Origin honeys and had ahigher TPC than Manuka honey. Its more im-portant than ever before to protect our IrishBees.88% of individuals feel that the government

is not doing enough to help save the bees.There have been some efforts by the govern-ment to preserve bees and the Top 3 areaspeople have noted these efforts is the; 1.Planting flowers in parks (57%), 2. Educatingindividuals on the importance of bees andwhat they can do (44%), and 3. Using fewerand less harmful weed killer and pesticides inwhich make bees sick (40%).Some individuals are interested in saving

the bees with 38% of people stating that theyhave personally taken measures to help savethe bees. The Top 3 measures taken by thecommunity are; 1. Planting different flowersthat bees prefer (69%), 2. Reducing the use ofpesticides to kill weeds or pests (56%), and 3.Telling friends and family about the impor-tance of bees as pollinators (50%).People are interested; however, the efforts

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tribute to the economy, there are some areaspeople feel the government must improve on.72% feel the government must educate morepeople on the benefits of bees and how theycan help, 69% desire the use of fewer and lessharmful chemicals to kill weeds and insects,and lastly, 63% want more flowers planted inthe park.For more statistics you can visit us at our

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A FINGAL Councillor,Matt Waine (Solidar-ity, Mulhuddart) haslabelled HousingMinister EoghanMurphy “a fraud”when his Depart-ment refused fund-ing in line with theFine Gael Minister’sown recently-de-clared push forCouncil housing.During Fine Gael’s

Galway “think-in” lastweek, the Minister

Cllr WAINE: wants action

CLOSE TO TOWN: the site is just outside Mulhuddart

PLANS: with the Minister for nearly a year

threatened to take“direct action”against Councilwhich, he said, werenot doing enough tosolve the housing cri-sis:“When I still

haven’t seen the solu-tions coming throughand I am still hearingexcuses [about lack ofprogress in Councilhousing] that are un-acceptable, I nowhave no choice but totell them either use

their emergencypowers,” said Mur-phy.“If they won’t I’ll be

stepping in.”

plaNsHowever, nearly a

year before this Min-isterial rebuke, CllrWaine and his Soli-darity Party had puttogether comprehen-sive plans for a thou-sand-home-p lu sdevelopment inDamastown Village,near Mulhuddart.“In October 2017 I

published a compre-hensive, costed pro-posal to develop 1200homes on Councilowned lands,” CllrWaine told LocalNews.It was to be a new

social-and-affordablecommunity calledDamastown Village,just west of Mulhud-dart.“We even pub-

lished architects’drawings and workedout the monthlymortgage repay-ments!”

“a bit rich”Fingal Council

management imme-diately saw the meritof the plan, and for-warded it to the De-partment of Housingfor Minister Murphy’sfunding approval.However, despite

repeated applica-tions by Fingal offi-cials, the Departmentsat on the plans fornearly a year.Cllr Waine de-

scribes it as “a bitrich” for MinisterMurphy to blamecounty managers fornot moving on thehousing crisis:“He hasn’t given

the green light to apublic developmentthat would see 1200homes deliveredwithin two years inone of Ireland’shomeless BlackSpots.”

Local News askedfor a statement fromthe Minister Murphyexplaining how hereconciled his owninaction on theDamastown planwith his rebuke toCouncils for their

Waine Calls Murphy’s Bluff on Mulhuddartby PAUL KELLY

house-building iner-tia. His Press Officesaid:

The Department iswell aware of the sitein question, which has

the potential to yield1,200 homes.

The Departmentunderstands thetenure mix has yet tobe agreed by theCouncil, and in thatregard no formal sub-mission for the socialhousing element hasyet been submitted,although there hasbeen early engage-ment between FingalCounty Council andthe Department’stechnical team.Cllr Waine dis-

putes this, saying thatthe Minister has beenwell aware, for nearlya year, of both designand planned social-and-affordable mix.

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HORROR ATTACKSon three separatehouseholds in a gatedGlasnevin seniorscommunity have ledto a call for manda-tory minimum sen-tences for thoseattacking pensioners. The attacks all oc-

curred in a suppos-edly secure complexoperated by the char-ity Fold Ireland.

kNiFepoiNtOne attack oc-

curred on Wednesday,August 29 when an87-year-old man wasawoken in his bed bytwo knife-wieldingthugs who threatenedhim and demandedmoney.The pensioner was

bound with cable-tieswhile the assailantsransacked his apart-

ment, eventuallymaking off with thou-sands of euros in cash.There was another

attack on the samenight; and a third afew days previously, inwhich a man in his60s was again threat-ened at knifepoint, onthat occasion by a sin-gle assailant.“These are terrify-

ing incidents,” CllrPaul McAuliffe (FF,Ballymun) told LocalNews.“Elderly people

have been repeatedlytargeted. These terri-ble crimes scar peopleand their families.”The impact, he said,

was devastating bothphysically and psy-chologically.“It creates a fear in

communities that isvery hard to shakeand get over.”The Fianna Fáil

councillor said he hadspoken directly tosome of the victims,who were, he said“still dealing with theshock and distress” ofthe burglaries and as-saults.

ribs brokeNIn the earlier as-

sault, on Friday Au-gust 24, a man in his60s had several ribs

broken when a knife-wielding thug as-saulted him at his ownfront door.“I have written to

the Garda Superin-tendent to share myconcerns regardingthis recent spike in vi-olent crime, and tourge him to put betterprotections in place,”the councillor said.Fianna Fáil wanted

mandatory minimumsentences for thoseconvicted of assaultson the elderly.“We must send a

strong message thatthis type of heinousbehaviour will not betolerated in our area.”

Cllr McAULIFFE:mandatory sentences

AWARD-WINNING: one of the apartments in the complex

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by PAUL KELLY• 3 attacks in Fold com-plex in 4 days• OAP had ribs broken • 87-year-old attacked inhis bed • Cllr Paul McAuliffecalls for harsher sen-tences

Young Dubliners should apply for EU programmeYOUNG people, aged 18-30, from acrossDublin should apply for an opportunity toserve on the Council of Europe in Strasbourg,France.

The youth department of the Council ofEurope is seeking an Irish delegate to takepart in two sessions of the Congress of Local& Regional Authorities (CLRAE) in Strasbourg- one week in early April and one week inearly October 2019.

The aim of this annual programme is tohighlight European democratic values andideals and to equip young people to becomeactive in local government. It’s a rare but ex-

citing prospect for any young person inter-ested in their local community, public policyor the European project as a whole, to expe-rience first-hand how it functions and oper-ates.

The chosen Irish representative will joindelegates from 46 other European memberstates to attend assemblies held with electedmembers of the Congress and to exchangethoughts and ideas on the local governmentsector across the continent.

Those interested should applywww.coe.int before Monday 17th Septem-ber.”

award-wiNNiNgFold Ireland says it

will now bring in“round-the-clock” se-

curity at the 38-apart-ment complex. It isalso understood to beinstalling a variety ofphysical and otherbarriers to prevententry, both into thecomplex grounds,and into each individ-ual house or apart-ment.Fold Ballygall Road

East has won numer-

ous housing acco-lades, including BestRegeneration Projectin the Irish Council forSocial HousingAwards in late 2017.Gardaí at Santry re-

ferred our queriesabout the crimes tothe Garda Press Office.The Press Office saidthey “had not heard”about the incidents —widely covered for thelast two weeks on TV,radio and print media.They asked us to emailthem with details. Wedid, and received thefollowing in response:“I have checked out

these incidents foryou and at this stagethere has been no ar-rests. Investigations

are continuing.”• LATEST: Just as we

went to press, reliableGarda sources, on con-dition of anonymity,told Local News ofprogress on the Foldburglaries. They saythat they are now “rea-sonably certain” as tothe perpetrators ofboth attacks. One at-tack, they say, wasdrug-related, with theperpetrator targetingValium for his ownuse. They no longer be-lieve that the three at-tacks (and anotherattack on a nearby off-license) were related,or were carried out bythe same gang. Arrestsare imminent.

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SETANTA GAAmembers have al-leged that the gov-ernment isdeliberately allow-ing the sale of crackcocaine in Ballymun— in order to keepthe deadly drugtrade away fromDublin’s leafy south-side suburbs.In an explosive

letter “on behalf ofthe Executive Com-mittee of CumannBáire Setanta” to theHealth PromotionMinister CatherineByrne, TD (FG,Dublin South Cen-tral), the Ballymun-based Gaelic clubsays that there hasbeen no action onthe massive increasein the sale and useof crack in the northDublin suburb.This, they say, is

no accident:“Illicit drugs are

obviously…being al-lowed to be sold inBallymun to keep itout of the city andother affluent areas.The people andcommunity of Bally-mun will not standfor this.”And they de-

manded an immedi-ate response, withno “politicalspeeches or ma-noeuvres”.The Gaelic club

executives’ lettersays there is a ten-fold increase incrack cocaine use in

SETANTA: explosive letter

MINISTER BYRNE: imme-diate action

SPECIAL TOLOCAL NEWS by Paul Kelly

the area, and thatthe effects are daily,obvious and highlyvisible:“The number of

users walking thestreets like skeletonsis a minute byminute event for usall to see.”

breakiNg poiNtLocal Fianna Fáil

councillor PaulMcAuliffe notes thatit is extremely un-usual for the GAA —

at club or Croke Parklevel — to get in-volved in politicalmatters:“That is some-

thing that, in my ex-perience, GAA clubssimply don’t do,” hetold Local News.“When a GAA club

takes this kind of ac-tion you know acommunity hasreached breakingpoint.”Already, inde-

pendent councillorNoeleen Reilly has

made a number ofcalls for more re-sources to deal withthe crack cocaineproblem. In our pre-vious edition, sheexpressed concernabout the involve-ment of gangs, andthe existence of in-dustrial-scale pro-duction labs in andaround Dublin.Setanta GAA, in

addition to askingMinister Byrne for acrack crackdown,also demanded the

Deliberate shift of drugscourge to Ballymun,

says GAA Club!

Sandyhill Shangan Over 35's pictured prior to a recent league game sporting their new kit which hasbeen kindly sponsored by Travelodge Hotels.

Members players and parents all gave a hand as Erin’s Isle had their annual collection to fund this fineclub. We came across these volunteers at the end of a long day near Super Valu in Finglas Village.

involvement of hercolleague, the Min-ister of State forTraining and SkillsJohn Halligan.They asked that

he draw up an “in-clusive plan” to edu-cate youngster as tothe dangers of illicitdrugs; and to steerthem towards localopportunities injobs, training andeducation.

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Is this why Gaelscoilrefurb is delayed?

A ROW between the De La Salleorder and the Department ofEducation may have stalled vitalrefurbishment of the GaelscoilUí Earcáin primary school onthe Glasanaon Road, Finglas.Credible sources have said

that the sale is being blocked bya redress battle between the re-ligious order and the Depart-ment.De La Salle are holding out for

their price; while the Depart-ment may be trying to get theschool free, as part of the much-vaunted Redress Scheme.Meanwhile any refurbishment

— to say nothing of a plannedextension — is awaiting the for-mal transfer of ownership.

coldCllr Noeleen Reilly (Ind, Bally-

mun) fears that problems likewoodworm will get worse, andmay even cause irreversibledamage to the building, unless

there is swift action. There areother, longer-term concerns,too:“The school needs an addi-

tional number of classrooms,private support rooms, toiletsand sinks,” she told Local News.“Windows need to be re-

placed, as the school can getvery cold in the winter.”She said she had written to the

Department during the sum-mer. It was clear, she said, thatthe sale of the building washolding up refurbishment andextension works.

Cllr REILLY: looking for action

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Abbey peeks and Áras walks in Friday’s Culture NightDOZENS of events —many of them free —will be on offer, north-side and south, duringIreland’s annual Cul-ture Night on Fridayweek, September 21.Hundreds of cultural

institutions, includinggalleries, museumsand libraries, will bekeeping their doorsopen long after theirnormal working hours.Many will be in busi-ness until late at night,in some cases until11:00pm or even mid-night.Details of every offi-

cial event, northsideand south, are avail-able on culturenight.ie.There’s even a spe-

cial button that will en-able you to locateevents in your immedi-ate area.Meanwhile, Local

News has taken a sam-ple of the northside at-tractions. Here aredetails of three: a back-stage visit to the AbbeyTheatre; a tour arounda famous GeorgianHouse in Dublin 1’sHenrietta Street; and anight-ride throughDublin in story andsong.

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has already proved tobe a very popular at-traction, and you’llhave to be at the the-atre — and early! — tohave a chance of get-ting in. A quick call tothe Abbey suggestedthat queues wouldstart to form fromabout 1:00pm.You have been

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SOCIAL DEMOCRATS co-leader RóisínShortall TD has strongly endorsed the callsof women and families affected by the Cer-vicalCheck crisis for swift implementationof the detailed recommendations of theScally report.

Deputy Shortall said: “Since this scandalbroke, women and families affected havesaid they wanted to get to the bottom ofwhat went wrong and why, and Dr Scally’scomprehensive report thankfully answersmany of their questions.“Dr Scally’s inquiry found problems

everywhere he looked, with many indica-tions that the screening programme was‘doomed to fail’ at some point. He chroni-cles the lack of proper governance of thehealth service, a lack of attention to qualityassurances and risk management, and anutter lack of accountability within the HSEand in fact throughout the health system.This is a shocking state of affairs which putsour entire health system to shame.“It is utterly clear that what’s now needed

is swift action to restore full confidence inthe cervical cancer screening programme.For that to happen, there can no delay bythe government in implementing the re-port’s fifty recommendations, whichamount to an entire reboot of how the na-tional screening programme operates andis managed and governed. It must also ad-dress issues of procurement, tendering andauditing.“In particular, there must be rapid

progress in introducing a statutory duty forindividual doctors to disclose full informa-

tion to patients. We need to see legal sanc-tions for individuals who hide informationfrom patents or keep them in the dark.These should be introduced as part of thePatient Safety Bill which is currently beforethe Oireachtas.”Deputy Shortall added: “I also fully sup-

port the calls made by Dr Scally as well asStephen Teap and Lorraine Walsh today forthe affected women and their families toreceive proper apologies from individualdoctors for how their cases were so badlymis-handled.“Dr Scally’s report lifts the lid on what is

an exceptionally paternalistic culturewithin elements of the medical profession.It is incumbent on the profession to com-mit to tackling these issues, which haveclearly caused so much additional andneedless suffering for patients and theirfamilies.”Deputy Shortall said it was unfortunate

that Dr Scally’s report does not contain anyinformation on the accuracy rates of thevarious labs which carried out screening onbehalf of CervicalCheck.“The only lab referenced in the report is

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Saor Ollscoil na hÉireannSAOR OLLSCOIL nahÉireann (Free Univer-sity of Ireland) was es-tablished in 1986 by asmall group of educa-tionalists with the cre-ative vision of alife-long learningprocess. The University pro-

vides third level educa-tion to degree standard

for mature students inthe area of the human-ities and social sci-ences. and makesawards in the LiberalArts at BA, MA andPhD levels.The Bachelor of Arts

(Humanities) pro-gramme is designed to:Open access to

higher education to

those who have notpreviously partici-pated in higher educa-tion.Provide access to the

knowledge and apti-tudes required to en-able citizens toparticipate fully in theeconomic, social andpolitical spheres ofIrish society.

Strong emphasis isplaced on student-centred learning in asupportive, exam-freeenvironment. Studentsare encouraged to de-velop their own think-

ing through dialogueand essays instead ofcramming for finalexams.All lecturers and ad-

ministrators offer theirtime and expertise free

of charge. Students payonly a nominal regis-tration fee per year.Fees are used for ad-ministrative costs.Registration and

Open Days for the2018/2019 Academicyear are set for Monday17th, Tuesday 18th andWednesday 19th of

September from4.00p.m. to 8.00p.m.Registration forms

may also be down-loaded, completed,and returned to us bypost. (Click here)We look forward to

welcoming back ourcurrent students andalso meeting new stu-

dents. If you are interested

in our approach to ed-ucation and learning,we invite you to join us,and we look forward tomeeting you when youregister. Please contactus on 01 8683368 or byemail on info@saor-ollscoil.ie.

'Raise the Roof: Homes for All'rally on October 3rd

THE RALLY will coincide with across-party housing motion tobe debated in the Dáil laterthat day.

The Irish Congress of TradeUnions along with the Union ofStudents in Ireland, the Na-tional Women’s Council of Ire-land, the National Housing &Homeless Coalition and FrPeter Mc Verry launched 'Raisethe Roof: Homes for All' rallyoutside the Dáil at 12.30 on Oc-tober 3rd.

The call was also supportedby Focus Ireland, Simon Com-munities of Ireland and a rangeof other advocacy and cam-paign groups.

The rally has been called tosupport a cross-party Dáil mo-tion on the housing and home-less crisis signed by Sinn Féin,Labour, People Before Profit,

Solidarity, The Social Democ-rats, The Green Party, Inde-pendents for Change andIndependent members of theOireachtas.

Todays civil society initiativeis hugely important. It providespeople from across the countrywith a non-partisan space toexpress the growing demandfor a radical change of housingpolicy and increased invest-ment in social and affordablehousing to be included inBudget 2019.

Raise the Roof: Homes forAll has the potential to be aturning point in our housingdebate. If we can harness theanger and energy of the broadpublic it could exert significantpressure on Fine Gael and Fi-anna Fáil and force realchange.

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l Breakfast Club - no chargel Healthy lunch hot or cold - plenty of choice, minimal chargel supervised evening & saturday study - free of chargel newly developed libraryl 2 Fully equipped ICt labsl Computers & Interactive whiteboards in all classrooms l Multi- purpose sports Hall. l Wide range of courses and subjects availablel linked to DCu access scheme and Hear for ird level entryl Comprehensive Pastoral Care system l excellent science, Home economics, art, Music, and sports facilities

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ST MIChaEL’S Holy Faith Secondary School

e Open Day will be held on Wednesday 26th September from 3.00pm to 6.00pm.is is a great opportunity for parents of the area to have a guided tour around the school andto meet the staff. St Michaels offers a learning environment with a nurturing caring core,which inspires and supports each student whatever their ability is.

St. Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, which is situatedon Wellmount Road, Finglas, is a non-selective CatholicVoluntary Secondary School for girls. e school is under thetrusteeship of the Le Chéíle Trust and supports the religiousand educational philosophy of the Holy Faithorder foundress Margaret Alyward.

sChOlarshipsTrinity Comprehensive School welcomes applicationsfrom students of high academic promise to apply for ascholarship. These scholarships are open to boys andgirls entering first year. The scholarship applies from1st to 3rd year of Junior Cycle. These scholarships arecontingent upon the continued hard work anddedication of the student.

the academic scholarship offers 1st year• Tablet supplied• Access to B.I.T.E. supports• Financial support towards Book Rental and

Uniform• JCSP Library Programme• Debating Society 2nd year• Access to B.I.T.E support• Financial support towards Book Rental and uniform• History & Geography field trips within Ireland• Summer Gaeltacht in St Patricks College 3rd year • Access to B.I.T.E. supports• Financial support towards Book Rental and

Uniform• Study Skills Courses • Easter Revision Courses ( individual subjects)

As the only 2nd level school in Ballymun, TrinityComprehensive School pupils benefit from all theB.I.T.E. supports in school (Ballymun Initiative inThird level Education) such as free grinds, supervisedstudy, extra Maths tuition, etc.

supervised evening studyThis is available free to all Junior and Senior Cyclepupils.

maths tuitionDCU students provide free one - to one or small grouptuition to our students on selected Wednesdayafternoons.

maureen smithwick bursaryThis is an academic scholarship to assist theprogression to third level education. The bursarycovers grinds, study programme, summer courses andfinancial support in the first of college.

the King bursary This is another academic scholarship worth €2,000 forstudents progressing to third level.

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DUBLINERS willhave the chance tofind out for them-selves if it feels like“safe driving” whena robot is at thewheel.The City’s first dri-

verless bus is set toply a short, single-kilometre (½ mile)route along thenorth quays in a fewdays time.It will run on a

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tember 22, from11:00am to 5:00pm.The event is part of

a wider EuropeanMobility Week.

Dublin City Coun-cil and its partnerswill host the FutureMobility Showcase onNorth Wall Quay onSaturday September22, from 11:00am to

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Ste Murray Memorial raises funds for local charitiesThis year’s Ste Murray Memorial was held in the beautiful weather some weeks ago which included awonderful day for local children and football games for all ages, followed by a social evening in theShamrock Lounge.

This year was the best ever in relation to the fundraising on the day with almost €5,500 raised forlocal charities. Our photo shows Ray Burke of Mental Health Forum who received €3,000 and EilleenMcCleland from the Laura Lynn Foundation who received a cheque for ¤1,400 from the committee at afunction in the Shamrock Lodge recently.

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The 16th IFI Documentary FestivalA BUSY AND variedSeptember at the IFIincludes a retrospec-tive of the work ofAgnès Varda, newfilms from Lance Daly,Lenny Abrahamson,and Gaspar Noé, afamily-friendly selec-tion of IFI Irish FilmArchive shorts for Cul-ture Night, and a mu-sical performancefrom Pól and MoyaBrennan of Clannad.September also seesthe return of the IFIDocumentary Festivalfrom Wednesday 26thto Sunday 30th withits annual selection ofthe best new non-fic-tion filmmaking fromacross the globe.The 16th IFI Docu-

mentary Festival,which includes 15 fea-tures and a perenni-ally popular Irishshorts programme,will open with theIrish première of BingLiu’s SheffieldDoc/Fest AudienceAward winner Mind-ing the Gap. The festi-val will also featurethe world première ofMarcus Robinson’s AnEngineer Imagines, alook at the career ofthe late, internation-ally renowned engi-neer Peter Rice. OtherIrish documentariesin the schedule in-clude Ross Whitaker’s

portrait of Katie Tay-lor, Katie, KeithWalsh’s When All IsRuin Once Again, andTom Burke’s LosingAlaska. Among themany guests sched-uled to appear at thefestival are directorsSteven Eastwood (Is-land), Almudena Car-racedo (The Silence ofOthers), andBernadett Tuza-Ritter(A Woman Captured).Documentar ies

also feature heavily inSeptember’s mainprogramme. A profileof Australian bandThe Go-Betweensscreens on Saturday22nd, while StephenLoveridge’s Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. opensfor a limited run fromFriday 21st. Christo-pher Martin’s Underthe Wire, featuringjournalists MarieColvin and Paul Con-roy, opens on Friday7th, filmmaker KenWardrop will intro-duce a screening ofthe Errol Morris clas-sic Gates of Heavenon Monday 10th, andAgnès Varda’s Oscar-nominated FacesPlaces (co-directedwith street artist JR)opens on Friday 21st.The release of

Faces Places will bepreceded by GleaningTruths, a six-film ret-

rospective of Varda’swork from through-out her 60-year career.The retrospective willbegin on Saturday 8thwith La Pointe Courte(1955), and continuewith the iconic NewWave drama Cléofrom 5 to 7 (1962), LeBonheur (1965), OneSings, The OtherDoesn’t (1977),Vagabond (1977), andthe acclaimed TheGleaners and I (2000).New releases in

September includeGaspar Noé’s latestprovocation, Climax(Friday 21st), andLenny Abrahamson’sfollow-up to Room,The Little Stranger(Friday 21st). TheWednesday 5thscreening of Black ’47will be followed by aQ&A with Lance Daly,with Lenny Abraham-son in attendance forthe 18.00 screening ofThe Little Stranger onFriday 21st. Themonth’s re-releaseschedule is particu-larly strong with Ter-ence Davies’s DistantVoices, Still Lives andFrancis Ford Cop-pola’s masterpieceThe Godfather bothreturning to the bigscreen.The IFI is delighted

to partner once againwith Culture Night for

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free screenings offamily-friendly shortsfrom the IFI Irish FilmArchive. The pro-gramme includesfilms made for andabout children andyoung people, and isguaranteed to enter-tain audiences with acolourful array ofnewsreels, anima-

tions, dramas, andpublic informationfilms. There will bethree separate selec-tions screening at18.15, 19.00 and 19.45on Friday 21st.Finally, the IFI Café

Bar’s special dealwhere visitors canavail of a standardadult admission and a

main course of theirchoice from the IFICafé Bar for just €18continues on Mon-days and Tuesdaysthroughout themonth.Tickets for the IFI

Documentary Festivalare now on sale fromwww.ifi.ie/docfest,with a special 5-film

pass available for €45directly from the IFIBox Office. Free ticketsfor the Culture Nightscreenings will beavailable from the IFIBox Office on thenight on a first-come,first-served basis.Tickets for all otherspecial events are onsale now from the IFI

Box Office on (01)6793477 and fromwww.ifi.ie. For furtherinformation and high-res images, pleasecontact Stephen Boy-lan (sboylan@ irish-film.ie) at the IFI PressOffice – (01) 6795744.IFI is principally

funded by the ArtsCouncil.

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Enjoying a great night out at The Village Inn Enjoying a great night out at Cu Chulainn’s

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Enjoying a great night out at The Dominick Inn.

After almost 60 years of friendship The Hentown Gang are still the best of friends, and wecame across them in the Dominick Inn enjoying a reunion party. Some don’t think they are old enough to be friends for 60 years but they all grew up in Henrietta Street flats.

Cappagh Hospital Foundation alongside Fran-cis Brennan launched the ‘Cuppa for Cappagh’campaign in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel. This funand engaging initiative will help raise criticalfunds for Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hos-pital, Ireland’s National Orthopaedic Hospital.The ‘Cuppa for Cappagh’ campaign is beinglaunched in association with corporate part-ners The National Dairy Council. Together,they will be launching #MindYourBones, anawareness campaign in September/October toeducate consumers on the importance of bonehealth throughout life stages.To mark the Foundation’s 30th Anniversary,

Cappagh is inviting people to celebrate thisand raise vital funds by having a ‘Cuppa forCappagh’ – anytime, anyplace, anywhere be-tween now and December 31st. This is the

campaign’s first year and the target forfundraising is €18,000.As a part of this unique initiative, Cappagh

Hospital Foundation is calling for past pa-tients, friends, businesses, schools, sportsclubs and community groups throughout Ire-land to have a ‘Cuppa for Cappagh’- whetherit’s a cuppa ice cream; cuppa tea; cuppasmoothie; cuppa hot chocolate; cuppa coffee& cream; cuppa dessert; cuppa soup; cuppaporridge or a cuppa whatever you like! Withthe autumn season nearly upon us, it’s the per-fect opportunity to invite people over to havea cuppa.People are invited to share images of ‘Cuppa

for Cappagh’ events on social media using#CUPPACAPPAGH. More information can befound on chf.ie.

Launch of the ‘Cuppa for Cappagh’

Picture 3: Pictured at the launch of the ‘Cuppa for Cappagh’ campaign in association with the NationalDairy Council are Irish Hotelier and Cappagh Hospital Foundation (CHF) Patron Francis Brennan along withTV3’s Mark Cagney, CHF supporter and Instagram star Nathalie Lennon

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