IF you’re from Donegal, it’ll not have escaped your notice that Donegal thrashed Kerry IN KILLARNEY over the weekend. Jimmy, it would appear, is still winnin’ matches.
Those two by-elections – the media are presenting them as Sinn Féin suffering another set-back, especially Mary Lou and her leadership. We tell her what she needs to do in the face of a hostile press.
And Pat has a sort of horrible story about two young children in Portugal, whose parents took them to a wood and in a pretend game, blind-folded them. When the kids eventually removed the blind-fold, the parents were nowhere to be seen. Gone. For keeps. What response can a society give in the face of such neglect?
Hit the link and watch the sunlight pour into your life – for at least half an hour…
One of the standout stories of the by-elections is that of Helen Ogbu, who got a very strong third place for the Labour Party in Galway West, and is almost certainly destined for the Dáil at the next general election.
In the words of Padraig Yeates in the Irish Times: “This is the most spectacular performance of any immigrant of colour in an Irish election ever”.