“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.
Cathal Caulfield, the traditional fiddle player and singer, grew up around trad music. He talks to Martin Cook about why he has stuck with it into adulthood.
Listen to Cathal Caulfield, the traditional fiddle player and singer, talk about trad music as a living tradition, and the role he plays in furthering that – whether as singer in residence with the Howth Singing Circle, or in his work digging up old comic songs. He sings a song or two, also, in this podcast from his live performance in the second-hand bookshop in the Liberties, Marrowbone Books.
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.”