“Having private, for-profit care goes against all you are trying to achieve for children in care,” says Terry Dignan, a spokesperson for charities that run children’s homes.
Councils are reluctant to use the single-stage process because they take on more risk if something goes wrong, says Sinn Féin TD and housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin.
In this first episode of our podcast “Music at Marrowbone Books”, fiddle player Danny Diamond performs at the Dublin bookshop, and chats with Martin Cook in his studio about his music and life.
In this first episode of Music at Marrowbone Books, fiddle player Danny Diamond performs at the Dublin bookshop on 16 Nov. 2017, and chats with Martin Cook in his studio about his music and life.
Diamond is a member of the Nordic/Irish band Slow Moving Clouds, and has also put out a series of acclaimed albums, including NORTH with Conor Caldwell in 2016, which was nominated for Irish Times Traditional Album of the Year and, more recently, Elbow Room.
Martin's substantive career was in civil engineering, specialising in the field of traffic and transportation. Currently, he is attached to Dublin City FM, and works as a freelance broadcast journalis
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”