The Irish Independenthas claimed that the Coalition has brought itself some time in the 'Garda wars' that it has become embroiled in.
...yesterday, unveiling the terms of
reference for the inquiry into these 30 years of garda-station tape
recordings, it was hard to fault the wide remit given Mr Justice Nial
Fennelly of the Supreme Court.
The inquiry in addition to looking into the taping of phone calls in Garda stations yesterday, will also investigate the monitoring of calls between remand prisoners in the state's jails and their legal representatives.
Garda during rescue of kidnapped dentist, John O'Grady, 1987.
St Patrick's Day 2014 is billed to be a dry warm one. The Irish Independenthas reported that Met Eireann is predicting a mild and pleasant weekend.
A considerable improvement on last year's inclement weather, it is good news for the many revellers that come out to enjoy the spectacles the length and breadth of Ireland.
17 March 1955 St. Patrick's Day Industrial parade in Dublin, run by the N.A.I.D.A..
Female piper band passes the corner of Trinity College as part of the parade.
Recent bad weather has given rise to an inauspicious start to the New Year.
Yet in terms of bad weather there is nothing new under the sun - when we get to see the sun, that is. As the Irish Independent reported Ireland has long been plagued by flooding. In one of its reports it gave a pictorial history of 54 years of bad weather.
Close to where the offices of Irish Photo Archive is located, the North Strand Road, was the scene of flooding in December 1954 as illustrated by the photo from our extensive archive below.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described the referendum outcome as disappointing, stating that 'sometimes in politics you get a wallop in the electoral process.'
According to the Irish Independent the result has 'led to blame and recrimination within the Coalition, including ministers, who demanded answers as to why the vote was lost. '
The decision to retain the Seanad against the wishes of the government while based on a slender margin, was nowhere more felt in the capital, Dublin, where all 12 constituencies cast their vote against
abolition.
Enda Kenny celebrating his election to Dail Eireann in 1975
With the release of the last chapter of the Murphy Report the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has come in for more criticism because of the role of its hierarchy in effectively covering up for the clerical abuse of children taking place on its watch.
The report revealed that three former archbishops of Dublin behaved
abominably in their handling of a paedophile priest, who the Church
spirited away to the US.
The Irish Independent reported the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, as being scathing of 'the church's lack of concern for children abused by priests.' Dr Martin claimed that 'there was concern
for everybody except the child.'
President Barack Obama is in the northern part of Ireland at the moment where he is speaking to an assembled audience at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.
The First Lady of the US, Michelle Obama was given a rapturous reception when she arrived to speak in the same venue.
The presidential visit coincides with the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy's arrival in Ireland in 1963. Then Lensmen were to the fore in capturing imagery of important moments for the benefit of posterity. Today a half century after the event Lensmen's endeavors are still being acknowledged, with their coverage of the 1963 Presidential visit featuring extensively at the weekend in the Irish Independent.
A Lensmen production that featured on the front cover of the Irish Independent weekend supplement on 15/06/2013
Capturing the images for Lensmen was the company's joint owner Andy Farren one of the country's finest snappers. Lensmen had been retained by the government of the day to put together the official album.
Andy Farren snapping away
Lensmen have now licenced the Irish
Photo Archive to digitise and preserve Lensmen’s extensive collection. Last year the significant task of digitising the collection
began, up until then the archive had been relatively untouched. The hope is
that over sixty years of work and sixty years of Irish life will be
made accessible to everyone through the website www.irishphotoarchive.ie and this vast, historically important collection
will be preserved for generations to come.
To that end the Irish
Photo Archive has been steadily scanning and uploading digital images from the
archive to the website.
We are especially pleased to be in possession
of a series of images from the visit of John F. Kennedy to Ireland in 1963.
These cover a number of the events that occurred during the visit such as the
trip to Dunganstown to meet his relatives, his cavalcade through Dublin and
many more. All of these images can be viewed on the website and prints are
available for purchase both in Ireland and internationally.
