“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.
This image of the Pearse Lyons Distillery is certainly one of juxtaposition, old with new.
The distillery acquired the old St James’s Church, which was derelict and neglected for many years, and brought it back to life. No easy task.
Behind the church is its graveyard, dating back many centuries, with everyone from local dignitaries to the average person buried there.
Indeed Pearse Lyons’s own ancestors are buried there.
Unusually for the time, also people of mixed religion too. There are thousands of souls at rest in the cemetery – all, I expect with great stories; some we will never know.
I am an artist in my fifties with a bachelor’s degree in fine art, living in the Liberties, and I absolutely love the deeply rich history of the area. Nowhere else is like it.
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Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
“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.”