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Saturday, October 05, 2013
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| Ten All-Star nominations for us Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:49 AM PDT The GAA/GPA All-Star nominations list was published late last night and, just like last year, we have ten players on the list. As was also the case twelve months ago the team that beat us in the All-Ireland final – this time Dublin – heads the list with twelve nominations while Ulster champions Monaghan are next on six. Then it's Kerry with five, Tyrone four, three for Cavan (their best ever showing for sure) and one each for Cork, Donegal (how the mighty have fallen), Galway, Meath and London. It is, of course, the Exiles' first ever time to have a player nominated for an All-Star. The ten Mayo lads nominated are Robbie Hennelly, Ger Cafferkey, Chris Barrett, Keith Higgins, Lee Keegan, Donal Vaughan, Colm Boyle, Aidan and Seamus O'Shea and Cillian O'Connor. In addition, Lee has – along with Dublin's Stephen Cluxton and Michael Darragh Macauley – been shortlisted for the Player of the Year award while Cillian has, once again, been nominated for the Young Player of the Year Award. The two-times winner of this gong is bracketed with Dublin's Jack McCaffrey and Paul Mannion on this occasion. Ten All-Star nominations is a fair enough reflection on our season but the one glaring omission from the list is Alan Freeman who had an excellent championship this year and who ahead of the final was in pole position to claim the full-forward slot on the All-Star team. How he's ended up without even a nomination – when the likes of Colm McFadden and Michael Newman have made the cut in that line – is beyond me and it's obvious that the inexplicable way he was subbed so early in the final has cost him a shot at an All-Star. Aside from that, the list looks okay from our perspective. In terms of likely winners, I'd say we're on course for five (one more than we got last year) with Keith, Lee and Cillian cast-iron certainties, Boyler not far behind (though the media love-in with Jack McCaffrey could unfairly cost him), the O'Shea brothers, Ger Caff and Donie all in the hunt while Robbie and Chris aren't going to make it any further. I'd say it'll be Keith, Lee, Colm, Aidan and Cillian. In the Player of the Year category, I'd say that Lee is unlikely to win out over the two Dublin lads. It's hard to know which of them will do it but I've a feeling that MDMA might get the nod there. Having finished as top scorer in this year's championship, Cillian definitely deserves to claim the Young Player award for an incredible third year in a row but if Baby Faced Jack doesn't get onto the All-Star team (and I don't think he will whereas Cillian is certain to) then I'd say he'll end up getting this award instead. The full list of nominations is here. This year it's the turn of the football awards to be announced on the night and that night is Friday, 8th November at the All-Star banquet in Croke Park. |
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Friday, October 04, 2013
Why are schools used as polling places?
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Why are schools used as polling places?
There’s some very sensible reasons why hundreds of primary schools will close today to facilitate voting.
http://jrnl.ie/1112804
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DISABLED PEOPLE SEE PROMISES CONSTANTLY BROKEN
In the final Prime Time debate before the 2011 General Election, both Eamon Gilmore and Enda Kenny stated that, if they were in government, they would prioritize people with disabilities as their number one social justice issue. Over two years later, it can be firmly argued that Government has failed to live up to this commitment.
In fact, Government has consistently shown a complete lack of understanding of the challenges facing people with disabilities in trying to live an ordinary life. The disability movement has been hit hard over the past number of years by the continuous chipping away of essential services and supports.
2012 saw one of the harshest budgets for people with disabilities, but the cuts did not end there. The decision to abolish the Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant this year dealt a further blow to people with disabilities, along with cuts to Special Deeds Assistance, respite care grants and housing adaptation grants, and the lack of day places for school-leavers with intellectual disabilities.
However, on top of the impact of cuts to disability – specific supports, people with disabilities are also substantially affected by cutbacks to mainstream social and health services which they need to access. This acts, unfairly, as a double hit, a major issue which Government can no longer ignore. People with disabilities and their families have had enough.
It is unacceptable that people with disabilities have to fight for the services and support they are entitled to. After five years of austerity, the Government now needs to act on the commitments it made, by putting plans in place to begin the restoration of these supports and working in partnership with disability and other organisations to bring about the full inclusion of people with disabilities.
Next year, the local and European elections will take place: this will be the chance for people with disabilities and their families to demonstrate their frustration in a very real way.
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
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