HERE ARE THE things we learned, loved and shared today as we round off the day in three easy steps.
THINGS WE LEARNED:
#PROTEST: A sleep-in protest staged by two women and local councillor John Brady at Bray Town Council has come to an end this evening, with both parties coming to an agreement. The two mothers, who both been made homeless in separate cases in recent weeks, arriving at the offices yesterday and refused to leave until their housing situations were addressed. Both women were directed to a homeless shelter in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow by the council, but they said the open hostel, which has shared facilities and is mainly used by single men, was an unsuitable for their young children.
#OPINION POLL: Public support for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has tied in the latest Millward Brown opinion poll for the Sunday Independent, which surveyed the views of 979 adults across the country. Support for both parties stands at 27 per cent, according to the poll results, with Fianna Fáil rising one point and Fine Gael rising four.
#MAGDALENE: The UN committee that put pressure on the Irish government to investigate the Magdalene Laundries system and provide redress to survivors has criticised Martin McAleese’s investigation and subsequent report, saying it “lacked many elements of a prompt, independent and thorough investigation as recommended by the committee” and that “despite its length and detail, did not conduct a fully independent investigation into allegations of arbitrary detention, forced labour or ill-treatment”.
#THE TROUBLES: A US appeals court has ordered that the PSNI be given access to only a limited number of interviews held on tapes included in Boston College’s oral history project on The Troubles. The First Circuit ruled that only those that deal directly with the disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972 can be handed over to police in Northern Ireland, reducing the number of interviews to be handed over as a result of subpoenas served on the academic researchers from 85 to 11.
#TURKEY: Protesters and riot police clashed for a second day in Istanbul today, a day after an environmental protest flared into a massive outcry against Turkey’s Islamist-leaning government. The unrest isone of the biggest protests since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan first came to power in 2002 and has exposed growing discontent with what critics say is his government’s increasingly conservative and authoritarian agenda.
THINGS WE LOVED:
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THINGS WE SHARED:
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