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IRISH PRISON OFFICERS will withdraw their participation in any of their voluntary duties under its work-to-rule action.
Yesterday, 93% of members of the Prison Officers’ Association voted to accept a ballot for industrial action.
It is their intention to carry out work-to-rule action on 26 March.
It says the decision was reached after “a series of unilateral decisions made by the Irish Prison Service” that have made prisons less safe for staff.
Recently there were two incidents in Tallaght Hospital and the Midlands Prison in which prison officers were injured.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Assistant General Secretary Gabriel Keaveny said that “there is a lot voluntary participation carried out by our members, that stuff I can imagine won’t be happening”.
He said on a daily basis prison officers carry out voluntary duties out of goodwill, but under the planned industrial action, that will not continue.
The prisons of Ireland run smoothly on the goodwill of staff . We anticipate there will be disruptions.
Keaveny said committees in each prison were being established to determine the best course of action, which will take the form of prison officers doing their job “as detailed”.
We will have specific a plan in place and we will advise staff as to what they should and should not do.
The Irish Prison Service said in a statement:
The Irish Prison Service strongly urges the Prison Officers Association (POA) to continue to work within the well established industrial relations machinery to resolve any issues of dispute. The Irish Prison Service has comprehensive contingency plans in place to deal with all eventualities within our prisons and this includes industrial action.
‘Wearable’ book lets you experience characters’ emotions while reading..
You would be fairly exhausted after reading 50 Shades of Grey……..
Don’t need to be plugged into a book to be able to feel what the character does. You are the character, you share the adventure and feel what s/he feels. You leave your mundane existence for a few hundred pages and let the book take you to places where you can only go in fantasy land.
Tbh ive just read books 1-3 of the Game of Thones. I’ve laughed and I’ve cried I dont need a machine to be able to emphasise with the characters.
Too true ‘Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you’. Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Have people lost every shred of empathy and imagination? Why even bother reading a book if you need a machine to help you “feel” it? Our emotions are one of the few things that separate us from our technological counterparts? We might as well give in and concede to the robot takeover now. This article makes me very sad indeed (better enjoy it while I still can).
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Sales of Shades of Grey about to increase!
This is a cute idea, but I don’t see it taking off as the next medium of books though. It sounds like a fun novelty, and since it looks like the book is geared towards tweens it might keep them interested in reading.
Take a look here also : http://www.thegeekyglobe.com/wearable-book-connects-you-in-to-characters-emotions.html
Jesus..imagine feeling what a woman feels..happiness..sadness..rejection..angst..lonliness..cold..happy..sad..cold again..anger..happy again..all in the space of one minute..ehh..no thanks
You’d fit the hole bible on the mother in laws frock!
If there’s a fart in the story you hear an audible fart and a waft of foul wind hits you in the face.
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