Christmas day mass at Clonskeagh Parish
Christmas day mass at Clonskeagh Parish Church, Bird Avenue, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14 Ireland
Welcome to St. Columba's Church Drumcliffe
Welcome message from Ven. Isaac Hanna Rector of Drumcliffe Parish Church, Co. Sligo, Ireland
€18,000,000 Housing scheme opened in Limerick
Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy TD, was in Limerick on Monday 29th January to officially open this €18,000,000 Sheltered Housing Scheme on Lord Edward Street.
The scheme consists of 78 housing units, 58 of which will be houses and apartments for the elderly and 24 of which are 3 bed-room family homes, a retail commercial unit and a community facility with a function room, exhibition area and meeting areas.
The site was acquired by Limerick Regeneration and the scheme was proposed in 2011 and approved in 2012. After a number of false starts the scheme is nearly complete with keys given out last week for some of the units. Better late than never and it's great to see the derelict site of the Tait Clothing Factory regenerated and put to good use.
The new residents have been busy all week getting their new homes ready; flooring, tiling and carpeting, white goods and furniture; the place is a hive of activity and excitement, I'm delighted for them. The houses are spacious, well laid out and finished to a high standard.
I'm sure that Minister Murphy is looking forward to the official opening; putting a feather in his cap that he did little to earn. Like his predecessors, Minister Murphy is not very engaged with Limerick Regeneration. In 2013 Jan O'Sullivan TD promised to establish an independent committee to oversee regeneration when she was Minister. This never happened and it is badly needed; Limerick Regeneration should be accountable for the taxpayers money it receives and how it engages with the communities under its remit. Despite claims to the contrary, there is no community participation in the regeneration process.
I wrote to Minister Murphy last November (by registered post and email) expressing my concerns about the lack of community participation and providing him with evidence that his department is funding Limerick Regeneration for work that doesn't get done; I didn't even receive so much as an acknowledgement.
Ireland's housing crisis will never be resolved so long as he have Housing Ministers that are more concerned with photo opportunities than they are with doing their job.
Easter Rising | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:57 1 Background
00:09:34 2 Planning the Rising
00:15:24 3 Build-up to Easter Week
00:22:01 4 The Rising in Dublin
00:22:11 4.1 Easter Monday
00:32:54 4.2 Tuesday and Wednesday
00:40:20 4.3 Thursday to Saturday
00:43:21 4.4 Surrender
00:45:41 5 The Rising outside Dublin
00:47:56 5.1 Fingal
00:51:03 5.2 Enniscorthy
00:53:04 5.3 Galway
00:55:29 6 Casualties
01:00:45 7 Aftermath
01:00:54 7.1 Arrests and executions
01:08:17 7.2 British atrocities
01:12:34 7.3 Inquiry
01:14:01 7.4 Reaction of the Dublin public
01:19:08 7.5 Rise of Sinn Féin
01:20:13 8 Legacy
01:29:18 9 Date of commemoration
01:30:33 10 In popular culture
01:33:38 11 See also
01:33:51 12 Notes
01:34:00 13 Bibliography
01:34:10 13.1 Historiography
01:35:10 14 External links
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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in the First World War. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period.
Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, and lasted for six days. Members of the Irish Volunteers—led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly and 200 women of Cumann na mBan—seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic. The British Army brought in thousands of reinforcements as well as artillery and a gunboat. There was fierce street fighting on the routes into the city centre, where the rebels put up stiff resistance, slowing the British advance and inflicting heavy casualties. Elsewhere in Dublin, the fighting mainly consisted of sniping and long-range gun battles. The main rebel positions were gradually surrounded and bombarded with artillery. There were isolated actions in other parts of Ireland, with attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Ashbourne, County Meath, County Cork and in County Galway, and the seizure of the town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford. Germany had sent a shipment of arms to the rebels, but the British had intercepted it just before the Rising began. Volunteer leader Eoin MacNeill had then issued a countermand in a bid to halt the Rising, which greatly reduced the number of rebels who mobilised.
With much greater numbers and heavier weapons, the British Army suppressed the Rising. Pearse agreed to an unconditional surrender on Saturday 29 April, although sporadic fighting continued until Sunday, when word reached the other rebel positions. After the surrender the country remained under martial law. About 3,500 people were taken prisoner by the British, many of whom had played no part in the Rising, and 1,800 of them were sent to internment camps or prisons in Britain. Most of the leaders of the Rising were executed following courts-martial. The Rising brought physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics, which for nearly 50 years had been dominated by constitutional nationalism. It, and the British reaction to it, led to increased popular support for Irish independence. In December 1918, republicans, represented by the reconstituted Sinn Féin party, won 73 seats in a landslide victory in the general election to the British Parliament. They did not take their seats, but instead convened the First Dáil and declared the independence of the Irish Republic. The Soloheadbeg ambush started the War of Independence.
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