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the upkeep of towns and villages. The recent work of local tidy town committees is the perfect example of this,” the minister said.

It is understood that a further €750,000 will be made available nationally under the new Litter Enforcement Scheme, with the end goal being to help crack down on littering and illegal dumping. This money can also be used by local authorities to deploy mobile CCTV cameras and other measures to identify those responsible for these activities.

A role to playMinister Fitzgearld went to say it

was up to each person to contribute and do their bit for their own area.

“We all have a role to play in the upkeep of our own communities. Local authorities, community and voluntary groups all do excellent work to maintain the appearance of streets, roads and scenic areas; this funding from help to support them in this work.”

New funding to help tackle litter and graffiti problem

SOUTH Dublin County Council is to recieve funding totalling €55,000 to help to help tackle the problem of litter and graffiti in the area.

The funding was announced recently by the Minister for Environment, Phil Hogan, as part of the provision of more than €2 million in grants to local authori-ties nationwide.

MoraleWelcoming the news, local TD

and Minister for Children and youth Affairs Frances Fitzgearld (pictured) said maintaining the appearance of the town centres in Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown as well as Rathcoole and newcastle, is extremley important for the morale of people living in local communities.

“It is a key factor in driving eco-nomic growth and boosting tour-ism figures. The funding being provided will help local authorities to tackle littering through aware-ness raising, enforcement and the maintenance of tourist areas.” said

the ministerThe funding has been allocated

to the council under the Anti-Litter and Anti-Graffiti Awareness Scheme, and the funds will enable local authorities to select projects that promote greater public aware-ness and education in relation to litter and graffiti.

"This includes supporting volun-tary initiatives run by community groups, which play a vital role in

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The manual working-class areas have voted highly No because the people have been the biggest victims of austerity. They have rejected the Government’s advice. The middle classes, in the hope that things won’t get any worse, have voted with the Government and with the establishment.People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd-Barrett gives his view of the referendum result

The armed group set itelf the aim of mounting terror attacks, creating a mood of powerlessness and lawlessness, sowing ethnic and religious enmity and damaging Azerbaijan’s international image.Azeri police on a plot to kill Jedward, amonst others, at the Eurovision

I'm not litigious. I don't feel right about doing that. But it could have been worse and you have to ensure it doesn't happen to someone else.Ray Darcy threatens to go to law after tripping over a signpost stump

It's very, very hard for all the family now. We feel that he wouldn't have went in if he didn't think he was going to walk free.Anne Lafferty, Annie Gilespie's sister-in-law after her killer John Gallagher handed himself in to the Central Mental Hospital 12 years after he absconded

The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer.Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX, the first private company to send a supply ship to the International Space Station.

We are there to record violations and to speak out so that the perpetrators of crimes may be held to account. We are not there to play the role of passive observer of unspeakable atrocities.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the crisis in Syria

We might not be ready for the title, but the process starts todayBrendan Rodgers on taking over at Liverpool FC.

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This is number of years that the average female in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown is older than the average female. This is the biggest difference in the state. The CsO didn't say why this should be but the difference tends to be higher in urban areas. Women appear to live longer than men due to having less heart disease. Men need to take better care of themselves. The other reason is that women have two X chromosomes. Not much that men can do about that.

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By David Hall, New Beginning

Winner of Midnight Tango Competition Winners Nina Sheridan, Rathfarnham.

WHEN WE TRUST in someone or something we expect that our trust will be respected and honoured.

Over recent years there has been a substantial diminu-tion in the public’s trust in our systems, institutions and political leaders; and in recent weeks we have seen those of the Catholic faith being challenged again by the lack of trust in some of its senior figures.

When someone breaks that trust it is very difficult, if not impossible to regain. In Ireland our trust in the bank-ing system was shattered in recent years with citizens paying a very high price. We are all too familiar with this story.

This government promised action on a number of fronts. After 14 months in power they still have not intro-duced new insolvency legislation.

They promised to deal with household – and specifi-cally mortgage – debt. There has been report after report, spin after spin and no action. The Taoiseach was to form a sub-committee of the cabinet and chair it himself; the Tánaiste was frustrated with the inaction of the banks – all fine words but what we need is action.

Many householders are struggling with debt and are making every effort to pay as much as they can. Many are paying more than they can reasonably afford and the economy suffers as a result. If people don’t spend in their communities, the small businesses shut down and then there is more unemployment and more indebtedness.

‘This is a car-crash’People eat into their savings to make current payments;

parents use their savings and income to help children who face eviction. From any point of view this is a car-crash happening in slow motion.

The root of the problem is that the banks are in control. Letters demanding ‘immediate full repayment of debt’ issue with relentless aggression and in a menacing tone. Pay us all the money and interest or vacate the property within seven or 28 days. The latest Central Bank quarterly report states that some 9,000 final demand letters have been issued and that there were 3,000 sets of legal pro-ceedings. This is a small fact forgotten when the banks spin about the low number of repossessions.

Borrowers need and deserve professional representation in dealing with well-funded banks.

Some people will lose ownership of their homes, as the debt is simply too high and their income no longer will support any realistic payment of the debt. But there is a serious discussion to be had regarding the balance of this debt after the house or property is sold.

Let’s be realistic about this debt. I believe there is no issue with a bank asking someone to make significant changes to their budget as long as the bank is realistic and will agree long-term solutions. To try and extract small monies by changing someone’s household budget is in my view unacceptable. Restructure the debts so the borrower has certainty. We need certainty for growth and for

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renewal. Nobody can begin again when their future can be taken away from them at the whim of some unknown banker.

‘The borrower does not trust their bank’The key challenge in resolving the over-indebtedness is

trust. The borrower does not trust their bank and I believe in most cases the bank does not trust the borrower. It is incredible that in 2012 banks cannot devise a system that will allow transparency for a borrower’s finance.

Maybe a sworn standard financial statement given to the bank by the borrower might be a starting point.

A borrower completing the standard financial statement does so with the bank being the enemy. There is an incen-tive to declare high expenditure, to use as a bargaining tool with the bank. This may even cause the bank to view the debt as unsustainable by reason of the expenditure being stated as higher than it might actually be. Having a sworn financial statement would be at least a step towards making sure both parties begin the discussions with some level of trust.

And if trust is gone then solving this crisis will be sig-nificantly more difficult.

There must be a way to renew or reestablish that trust. But one sure way not to restore that trust is by giving the bank a veto in the upcoming Insolvency legislation. Does anyone believe that if a bank has a veto it won’t use it?

Now the Government has delayed the introduction of the insolvency bill and created yet again an air of fear and

uncertainty. Moral hazard is not the issue – it’s govern-ment hazard.

Let’s now move on to solutions.‘The current system does not work’

The current system does not work, as the banks hold all the cards. We may be wasting time waiting on the banks and our Government to act as they have both failed to do so in any meaningful way in the middle of a massive financial and human crisis.

Over the next three months New Beginning will expand its services. We will continue to arrange legal representa-tion for those facing repossession of their family home and who have no representation, advocating on behalf of those in debt and promoting solutions. We will add finan-cial and negotiation services for borrowers to help deal with their creditors.

Borrowers need power to be rebalanced. One way is by borrowers coming together. This is very important in order to give the borrower the best chance of working towards a common aim.

Many debt companies will be established over the com-ing months but my view is that a more powerful way of finding a solution for the thousands of homeowners in difficulty is through one central organisation representing borrowers. This would give a very strong negotiating position. Dealing fairly with this debt burden is essential for the economic recovery of our country.

New Beginning will play a part and provide vital serv-ices to help borrowers and our economy recover by seek-ing fairness and recovery for all.

David Hall works with New Beginning, a group of lawyers, businesspeople and citizens set up to defend citi-zens facing home repossession.

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By Kathy Marsh, SonairteGreen SceneGreening the pagesDO you ever wonder why one piece of information rather than another appears on this page? Where does it all come from? This month I thought I’d let you in on the process.

So where does it begin? It begins with an email from our revered editor telliing me when he wants the copy on his desk – and I write back to say I don’t have a single inspiration this month, has he got any ideas.

So he sends me a couple of interesting press releases which I add to the huge file of press releases I’ve already got. I put the date in my calendar with an alarm so I can’t forget it. Then I forget it.

Come copy day the alarm goes off and I panic and pull out all those files – and none of them feels very inspir-ing. So I remember that this is a monthly, and that the editor, understanding my dilatory ways, has actually given me a day or so of grace in deadline terms. I put it all on one side for tomorrow.

Creative juices flowingBut then tomorrow comes – still no inspiration so I go

grocery shopping. I talk to fellow shoppers, the person on the checkout, what environmental issues have sur-faced for them? I meet a friend for coffee – talk to them and the waiter – sooner or later something will come up that gets the creative juices flowing. Especially when I get home and there’s another friendly email from the editor asking where my copy is.

This month it was my builder who finally got this column moving – he asked me whether I’d like him to use RoundUp to tidy up my nettles.

I wish I could share the expression on his face when I told him I wanted to keep the nettles just where they are – in my garden nettles are one of the many weeds I’ve encouraged to grow in particular spots.

But what worried me, apart from the casual suggestion that glyphosate, which is toxic to amphibians and fish,

should be sprayed on a stream bank, is that this happened just after biodiversity week, when the government is pledged to spread information about the the importance of maintaining a wide range of habitats and wildlife. It obviously hasn’t reached him.

And I see no sign that our government is learning that biodiversity has a value in hard cash to a struggling economy. A couple of days ago I saw something about that hard cash value to another struggling economy – that of the Maldive Islands. A grey reef shark is worth $32 dollars cooked on a plate. Alive and swimming the reefs of the Islands it is worth $3,300. That is what tour-ists will pay to come to the islands to see that one fish during its lifetime.

Bio-valueWhat might birds and butterflies be worth, properly

marketed, to the Irish economy? In order to have those butterflies we need nettles which feed and pupate on them. How much economic damage can spraying hedge bottoms with RoundUp do in the long term?

And that is just in tourism terms before we look at the impact of biodiversity on a healthy agricultural econo-my, or forestry, or clean air and water. Biodiversity has a hard cash value – and it looks pretty as well. Last night I was sitting up on top of the chamber tomb at the Four Knocks enjoying the sunset when a French tourist arrived, camera in hand. She’d come to Ireland for the

history, but no one had told her about the wild flowers and she was bowled over by the toasted coconut scent of the gorse flowers along the path to the mound, and by the daisies that covered it and the buttercups and clover in the field beside it.

Biodiversity threatsAnd now back to those press releases. The EPA has

released its Biodiversity Action Plan 2011-13 which seems a little late in the day to me. But let us concentrate on the content which says that while progress has been made in the designation of EU protected areas in Ireland many areas of national importance are not protected and significant aspects of biodiversity in Ireland remain under considerable threat from unsustainable activities.

Based on the bad conservation status of many impor-tant habitats and some species, considerable efforts and resources will be required to improve their status, both within and outside protected areas.

The plan also says that it is evident that there are spe-cific challenges relating to biodiversity posed by climate change and that biodiversity can be somewhat of a ‘poor relation’ among environmental topics. The EPA stress the need to push biodiversity into the mainstream.

Enforcing the lawMeanwhile our legislators continue to fail to enforce

the laws that should protect biodiversity. I’ve talked a lot about turf cutting and we all know that in the end legisla-tion was brought in to protect specific bogs with those with traditional turf cutting rights being given a mixture of cash, insulation grants and other measures so that they did not need to rely on now illegal cutting.

Unfortunately no attempt is being made to enforce the new laws, with Gardai standing by laughing and joking while turf is cut illegally by machine. Meanwhile the insulation grant part of the new legislation has also not been implemented. An Taisce and the Friends of the Irish Environment have called on the Taoiseach to stand over his promises – so far he has made no response.

More overstockingMeanwhile the Minister for Agriculture Simon

Coveney is also putting €100m EU funding at risk by requiring higher stocking rates for sheep in disadvan-taged areas. This hasn’t been approved by the European Commission – because he hasn’t asked them to approve it – so they are likely to ask for their money back.

Perhaps he is too young to remember the landslides around the country caused by overstocking last time headage payments were introduced. Why is he doing it? Because big farmers see their brown envelopes being reduced if small farmers get paid for managing their land for biodiversity.

And yes, there’s been a judgment standing against Ireland in the European Court since 2002 for allowing overgrazing. But paying the fines will come out of the Environment budget – not Agriculture.

Birth of the AbbeyAnd finally a quick diversion from the biodiversity

theme. Fire recently destroyed 34 Camden Street, where the Abbey Theatre was born. It was also the building where Na Fianna was born - a key training base before 1916. It is part of a significant Georgian Terrace.

This site qualifies as a National Monument under several criteria, and is of far too great significance to be left demolished.

An Taisce wants the State to buy the site under a com-pulsory purchase order, declare it a National Monument, reinstate the building, and list adjacent Georgian build-ings on the Record of Protected Structures. To add your voice to the campaign visit the An Taisce website.

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WELL who’d have thought there were so many lovely cat people out there and I’m delighted you’re all regular readers. With that in mind, and since cats appear to be so popular, I thought I’d dedicate this week’s column to cat toys and cat play with an aim to help you make your home a more stimulating environment for Miss Kitty.

First of all, let me say that when it comes to self amusement, cats are experts and it doesn’t take much to keep them keen. For example, if you have a balled up piece of paper or a little rubber ball you can flick, well Miss Kitty will be in puur-rfect heaven just chasing and swatting it.

In fact, the clever cat may actually like to play ‘fetch,’ by placing an object in your lap, expecting you to throw it for her. And yep, I know, pets’ toys can be expensive; I’ve got dogs who have managed to shred every single ‘guaranteed unbreakable,’ toy I’ve purchased, but with a cat it’s different; you don’t need to raid the piggy bank to keep her happy. Below are a few simple but doable hints for playthings for you to make Miss Kitty Claws. • Anemptycardboardboxisagreatwayforcats

to investigate and play hide and seek. Or make a cat apartment by attaching boxes together and cutting out doors and windows.

• Makeitafamilyaffairandsetthekidsaprojectby getting them to make felt mice stuffed with catnip.

• Usedpapertowelortoiletrolltubesaregreatfor Kitty to unwind.

• Paperbagsarefabbutmakesureyouremove

the handles. Never, ever use plastic bags, they are a suffocation risk and sometimes cats can chew and choke on the plastic.

• Plastic golf balls…you know the ones hubbyuses for practice. Steal one from his stash and place it in a dry bath tub and let Kitty play.

• Catsloveanythingthatmovessowhynotgeta tub of bubbles and blow them through the air and let Kitty catch and burst them.

• Turnoffthelights,getthetorchoutandplayshadows on the wall by dangling cat toys back and forth encouraging your cat to leap up at the wall trying to catch her prey.

For more information contact your vet, log onto www.dspca.ie or email me at [email protected]© Miriam Kerins, Head of Communications and Public Relations, Dublin SPCA.

Cats just want to have fun Summer cloudsThis time of year is when we get to see something a bit different in the sky. Not stars, not planets, not even something in space! What we get to see are eerie noc-tilucent clouds.

Around midsummer the sun sets but doesn't go very far below the horizon. You might notice this if you get a clear horizon away from buildings at night: a faint glow is always there towards the north, and you don't see as many stars as you would during the winter. in fact, the sun is close enough to the horizon that very high up in the atmosphere it's still daytime!

sunlight lights up wispy high-altitude clouds that are otherwise invisible. Their name roughly means 'night shining' in Latin, and noc-tilucent clouds form an elec-tric blue web in the north-ern sky, unlike any other cloud you have ever seen.

When you see noctilucent clouds you'll see just how bright they can be, and you'll be surprised to learn that the phenomenon was only discovered in 1885. indeed, over time, the clouds seem to be appear-

ing more regularly and more brightly. some suggest that this may be related to climate change, as the first sightings coin-cide with the industrial Revolution.

Noctilucent clouds appear approximate-ly 80km up in the atmosphere and are made of ice crystals that form on dust that comes from volcanic activity and meteors. Their appearances are useful to meteorologists as they can indicate changes in the upper atmosphere.

ireland is an ideal location to view noc-tilucent clouds as we are relatively close to the polar regions, but the night sky still gets dark enough to make the clouds extremely vivid. if you get to see or pho-tograph them, please send your observa-tion report to Astronomy ireland by email to [email protected].

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Finally folks, if you need any information on gardening or if you have any tips or suggestions which I can pass on, please send them to me at [email protected].

I would be delighted to quote for any/all of your garden require-ments from set-up organic vege-table plots to restoration of neglected gardens, design, plant-ing and maintenance. No charge for initial visit and I will travel within reason.

ONE very hot week at the end of May had us all thinking has the summer finally arrived?

Late April and most of May were awful weather-wise with arctic winds and little or no heat for this time of year. The good news though is that June will be a lovely month.

I was told this by a farmer and if anyone can predict the weath-er it is the farmers.

So keep the shorts, T-shirts and summer tops at hand. The growth in the garden during that lovely May week was incredible and was just what was needed to bring on all kinds of plants.

The golden ruleAssuming my farmer friend is

correct it is vital that young plants in particular are kept well watered in order to establish in their first year.

In addition, the golden rule when planting any plant wheth-er it is a small bedding plant or a large shrub is to loosen up the

Gardens are coming alive with colour

started to grow in earnest but don’t cut the grass too low as it’s very easy to damage the grass. Established lawns don’t need to be watered too often however newly established lawns really do need lots of H2O. Apply a

good liquid feed to tired lawns. Now is a good time to tidy up the faded foliage of spring flowering bulbs and it’s also a good time to divide overgrown clumps.

Hanging baskets are easy to make but if you don’t have the

time they are available in garden centres and even your local cor-ner shop. It’s possible to spend a lot of money on a really nice basket but I think it’s better to get a cheaper basket and supplement it with some other small plants. One thing that I do every year is to pop a few nasturtium seeds into your basket. My favourite is ‘Empress if India’ which are widely available.

The flowers are a lovely red-dish colour and are ideal for bas-kets.

Alive with colourMy herbaceous border is alive

with colour right now and the star of the show is a wild sage called ‘’Hot Lips’’!

Another great plant for vigour and colour is in the herb garden, it’s the normal sage plant which is now about two foot high and wide and is covered in a mass of lovely blue scented flowers. This plant could be used in any herba-ceous border to great effect.

n The golden rule when planting is to loosen up the root ball before planting

root ball before planting. It is amazing how many people sim-ply take the plant out of the plas-tic container and pop it straight into the planting hole. Nine times out of ten the plant will not sur-vive.

Veg plotThe veg plot has finally started

to produce early lettuce leaves especially on the cut and come varieties and everything else is coming along nicely. The pota-toes at this time of year need constant ‘earthing up’ but other than that they need no special attention.

Keep germinating lettuce seeds for a good supply later in the year.

Elsewhere in the garden keep watering and dead heading to maintain colourful displays.

If you don’t dead head regu-larly the plant will try to produce a seed head to replace the flower which is not what is needed.

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All about Dublin 1 Edited by ZozLesser Known Dubliners

Capt. William Cunningham

"I, William Cunningham, was born in Dublin Barracks, in the year 1738. My father was trumpeter in the Blue Dragoons; and at the age of eight years, I was placed with an officer as his servant, in which station I continued until I was sixteen, I rose to the rank of Sergeant but, with the end of the Spanish War (1763), found myself a civil-ian.

Being bred to no profession, I took up with a woman who kept a gin-shop in a blind alley, near the Cole Quay, but the house being searched for sto-len goods, and my doxy taken to Newgate, I thought it proper to decamp; accordingly I set off for the North, and arrived at Drogheda, where, in a few months after, I mar-ried the daughter of an exciseman, by whom I had three sons. About the year 1772, we removed to Newry, where I commenced the profession of scaw-banker, which is that of enticing mechanics and country peo-ple to ship themselves for America, on promise of great advantage, and then artfully getting an indenture upon them, in consequence of which, on their arrival in America, they were sold, or obliged to serve a term of years for their passage."

Cunningham travelled to America, arriving in New York in August 1774 but had to flee to Boston after being beaten in the streets for "rendering myself obnoxious to the citizens in their infant struggle for freedom."

When the American War of Independence began he was appoint-ed Provost-Marshall to the British army - "which placed me in a situation to wreak my vengeance on the Americans."

And that he certainly did with a vengeance - poisoning the pris-oners' food, exchanging good for bad provisions, and continuing to draw their rations after their death, or, as it was put at the time: "he fed the dead, and starved the living." He was also personally responsible for the execution without trial of 250 American prison-ers.

"At the end of the war, I returned to England with the army, and settled in Wales, as being a cheaper place of living than in any of the populous cities; but being at length per-suaded to go to London, I entered so warmly into the dis-sipations of that capital, that I soon found my circumstances much embarrassed, to relieve which I mortgaged my half-

pay to an army agent; but that being soon expended, I forged a draft, of £300 sterling, on the Board of Ordnance, but being detect-ed in presenting it for acceptance, I was apprehended, tried and convicted, and for that"offence am here to suffer an ignominious death. I beg the prayers of all good Christians, and also pardon and forgiveness of God for the many horrid murders I have been acces-sory to.

William Cunningham[The Life, Confession, and last dying Words of Capt. Cunningham,

formerly British Provost-Marshal in the City of New York, who was executed in London, the l0th of August, 1791, appeared in American newspapers after Cunningham's death, is factual in many ways - he was a brute, a thief and a sadist, but there is no record of his execu-tion in England.]

Capt. William Cunningham. From 'Historic Blackguards', by Albert Paysune Terhune, 1912

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IN the 18th century the science of medicine as we know it was just in its infancy - crucially, the causes of disease were largely unknown ('bad air' was a popular diagnosis).

But, even if there was no real understanding of many diseases, and still less any idea of how to cure them, there were steps which could be taken to reduce the number of cases. Below is a shortened account showing how Dr. Joseph Clarke, Master of the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, dealt with the 'nine day fits'.

"At the conclusion of the year 1782, of 17,650 infants born alive in the Lying-in Hospital (now the Rotunda Hospital), 2,944 had died within the first fortnight, that is nearly 17 per cent. The disease which carried off most of these children, perhaps 19 of 20, was general convulsions, or what the nurses have been long in the habit of calling the 'nine-day fits', owing to their constantly occurring within the first nine days alter birth.

"This disease generally attacks with violent general convulsions, particularly affecting the extremities and face, and occurring at uncer-tain intervals. The agitation is in some very great, the mouth foams, the thumbs drawn into the palms of the hands, the jaws quite locked, and any attempt to wet the mouth, or to administers medicines, seems to render the complaint infinitely worse. The face and body swell and turn of a livid hue, which circumstance when it occurs has given occasion to the nurses and attendants calling the complaint the black fits. The paroxysm lasts from eight to thirty hours.

"It happens more frequently that the symptoms are all less violent, the extremities being rather twisted than convulsed, and the power of sucking and swallowing remaining until near death. The body shrinks, and grows pale, becoming in short a miserable spectre of emaciation and disease, the nurses have called these the white fits.

Continued next page>>

From the archives Curing the 'Nine Day Fits'

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All about Dublin 2 Edited by Zoz

WE drove about the town on a jaunting car, with a talkative driver, seeing all the sights and listening to strange, wild legends. In the pretty cemetery of Glasnevin, we saw, through the grating of a vault, the magnifi-cent coffin which contains the body of O'Connell, the great orator. We enjoyed most our drive in Phoenix Park, a noble enclosure, filled with fine trees and shrub-bery, flowers, birds, gentle deer and play-ful, brown-eyed fawns.

But if we liked the streets, buildings and parks of Dublin, we liked the people better. Very courteous, generous and cordial, we found all those to whose hospitality we had been commended, and warm at my heart is now, and ever will be, the dear memory of my good Dublin friends.

A mile or two south of Dublin is Donnybrook, the place where a famous annual fair is held. We happened to be in the city at the time of this, and one pleasant afternoon we drove out to see this great gathering of the Irish peasantry. The fair-ground presented a busy, gay and curious scene. A large enclosed space was covered with booths and tents - horse-markets - cattle-markets - buyers, sellers, and crowds

of spectators. There was almost every thing one could think of for sale, - there were all sorts of games and sports and shows going on - there were Ethiopian concerts - plays - exhibitions of Punch and Judy - little cir-cuses and menageries - jugglers - tumblers -hurdy-gurdy players - ballad-singers, pip-ers, fiddlers and dancers.

In nearly all the tents were gay young couples dancing away as though for dear life - dancing not alone with their feet, but with their arms, their heads, and their

FIrSthaND hIStoryDonnybrook Fair in 1833

merry, twinkling eyes. They were not all well-dressed, or even clean, but they seemed happy and healthy, and merrily snapped their fingers at care. Everywhere there was laugh-ter and chatter, and feasting and frolic - but, I am glad to say, we saw little tippling, and no quarrelling. It was very different in old times, when the wild fun of Donnybrook Fair always ended in confusion, drunkenness and fight-ing. This happy change has been effected partly by the Temperance reform, and partly by the establishment of a strong and active government police.

An excerpt from 'Countries I have seen - Dublin - Donnybrook,' By Grace Greenwood, published in the Philadelphia magazine 'The Little Pilgrim' in 1855 (the year in which Donnybrook Fair was finally banned).

n Donnybrook Fair in 1833 (Dublin Penny Journal).

Curing the 'Nine Day Fits'>> Continued from page 12

"Both varieties constantly attack within nine days from the birth, and most frequently about the falling off of the umbilical cord."

Based on his, and others, observations on this always fatal disease, Dr. Clarke came to the conclusion that it was caused by "Foul air - Neglect of keeping the children clean and dry - Irregularity in the manner of living of their mothers, more especially in the abuse of spirituous liquors."

To get rid of the impure atmosphere Dr. Clarke had air pipes installed in the ceiling, holes were bored in every door [some can still be seen in the Rotunda] and window to allow air to circulate, reduced the number of beds in each ward, and put a greater emphasis on regu-lar cleaning.

And the results were impressive - of 8,033 children born after the changes, 419 died (roughly 5 per cent, a decrease of 12 per cent).

It was to be more than a century before the story of the 'nine day fits' became clear. It was, in fact, tetanus. In 1897 Edmond Nocard found an antitoxin which could be used to give immunity - by WWII a vac-cine was widely used to treat wounds.

The form of tetanus Dr. Clarke was dealing with was neonatal teta-nus which usually occurs through infection when the umbilical stump is cut with a non-sterile instrument. Today it accounts for 14 per cent of all neonatal deaths in developing countries, but is very rare in the developed world.

While introducing a flow of air in the hospital wards may have been generally helpful, it was probably the increase in cleanliness that resulted in the dramatic fall in the Lying-in Hospital.

Dr. Clarke's achievement is all the more remarkable in that he really had no idea about the disease itself and, for example, never made the connection between cutting of the umbilical cord and the onset of the 'nine day fits.'

The silent killer Passive smokingBy Tom RyanPASSIVE smoking kills children and adults. No exposure levels are safe. Harmful effects on the heart, blood vessels, and circulation are immedi-ate. Even brief exposure can damage cells and set the cancer process in motion. Over time heart disease, heart attack and stroke risks are greatly increased.

Passive smoking causes lung cancer in peo-ple who never smoked. It’s classified as “A known carcinogen” by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Toxicology Programme, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization. Cigarette smoke contains more than 7,000 chemical compounds. 250 are known to be harmful of which 69 cause cancer.

Children suffer more from expo-sure than non-smoking adults. Tobacco chemicals are found in breast tissue and breast milk. Evidence sug-gests links to childhood leukaemia and cancers of the larynx (voice box), pharynx (throat), brain, bladder, rectum, stomach, and breast. Children’s growing bodies are especially sensitive to tobac-co poisons. Asthma, lung infections, and ear infections are more common in children of smok-ers. Some are serious and even life-threatening. Even minor ones add up. Think of the costs, doc-tors, medicine, lost school time and parents work time.

Each year in the United States passive smok-ing exposure is responsible for:• An estimated 46,000 heart disease deaths• About 3,400 non-smoking adult deaths from

lung cancer

• Increased asthma and related problems in up to 1 million children

• Between 150,000 and 300,000 lower respira-tory tract infections and lung infections with 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations each year in children under 18 months.

Since 1964 numerous US Surgeon General’s reports have highlighted the dangers of pas-sive smoking, such as:

• Increased disease and deaths among exposed children and non-smoking adults.

• Increased risk of miscarriage, still-birth, low birth- weight baby, and other pregnancy and delivery problems from exposure during pregnancy.• Tobacco chemicals damage sperm reduce fertility and harm foetal development.• Smoking parents increases the risk of sudden infant death syn-drome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, ear infections, and

increased severity and frequency of asthma attacks among children.

• Smoking parents can cause wheezing, cough-ing, bronchitis, pneumonia, and slow lung growth in children.Millions of children and adults remain exposed

to passive smoking despite controls. A smoke-free home and car are vitally important for family health. Smoking in cars is particularly harmful. Stop killing yourself and others. Stop smoking now. It’s the intelligent option.

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Stepaside Eyecare offers the people of south Dublin a truly personal eyecare service. This includes advice on the dangers of Ultra Violet (UV) light and how to protect your eyes by wearing good quality sunglasses with full UV protection.

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Q: Are any suncreams better than any other suncreams or do they all work the same? Is there anything I should be looking out for when buying a sunscreen?

A: Most people will be aware that sunscreens give different levels of protection, and this degree of protection is expressed as SPF (Sun Protection Factor), often just known as 'factor'. The higher the SPF, the more protection the sun-screen will give against UVB rays from the sun.

Broadly speaking, ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun can be divided into two types – UVA and UVB. Put simply, UVB rays cause sunburn, whereas UVA rays cause damage in the deeper layers of the skin and cause the skin to lose elasticity and to age prematurely. All types of UV radiation cause skin cancer, although UVB appears to be the more serious culprit in this regard. Therefore when choosing a sunscreen, it is important to get one that gives effective protection against UVA and UVB.

The SPF of a sunscreen is a measure of how long you could stay in the sun without burning compared to if you had used no sunscreen. For example, in theory an SPF of 15 means that you can stay in the sun 15 times longer before you begin to burn than if you had not put on any sun-screen.

Never provide the same level of protectionHowever, in practice sunscreens almost never provide the

same level of protection as the SPF would imply. This is because the SPF stated is based on laboratory conditions using a much heavier application of sunscreen than people tend to use in real life. Also, with very high SPFs, the sun protection will have worn off well before the theoretical burning time implied by the SPF.

Remember the SPF on the bottle only refers to the protec-tion against UVB rays. Therefore it is important to ensure that your sunscreen gives adequate protection against UVA

Disclaimer: The advice you have been given by the pharmacist should not be regarded as a clinically accurate diagnosis of any disease or a guarantee that a particular medicine is safe for you to take. The advice given is based solely on the limited amount of information provided and so should not be regarded as a substitute for a face to face consultation with a pharmacist, doctor or other health professional who is personally familiar with your medical history.

Protecting yourself with sunscreens

rays. Generally, the level of UVA protection is given by a star rating, from 1 – 5 stars although not all brands use this rating. A sunscreen with good UVA protection will also have a UVA logo on the front of the bottle. Ask your phar-macist if the sunscreen you are seeking gives adequate UVA protection.

Applying sunscreenThere are a few rules that you should follow when apply-

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You may also need to apply more frequently when swim-ming, sweating or using a towel. There a number of sun-screens on the market which state that they only need to be applied once a day. However, I feel that this may lead peo-ple into a false sense of security and they should still be applied every few hours. Sunscreens should ideally be

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Draw a Lego art exhibition is an art exhibition dedicated to Lego featuring art from emerging artists around Dublin and ireland. The exhibition will run from 22 to 30 June 2012 at Exchange Dublin gallery in Temple Bar.

Exchange Dublin is a collective arts cen-tre run entirely by young people. They hold discussions, gigs, visual arts and per-formance and anything else you can think of. Most projects originate from the autonomous “Exchange Groups” that use the space as a hub for their activity. All work is voluntary.

The Opening day for the Draw a Lego Art exhibition will be 22nd June 2012 at 6 pm. The Art of The Brick has captivated millions of creative minds since its creation in 1949 and the artists hope the fan base of the legendary colourful construction toy will be equally captivated by this exhi-bition.

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AGENTS J and K are still saving the world from the scum of the universe when one day K ceases to exist. J discovers that to save his partner he must travel back in time, to 1969, and find young K before it’s too late.

MIB1 was a hoot, a real summer crowd pleaser of a film. MIB2 was not, it being a poorer paler version of the original. Why would anyone want another sequel? I don’t know. I wish I could say that it was a stroke of genius to make this third instalment but I can’t.

But, I also cannot say that MIB3 is bad, as it is not – it is a really enjoyable, if somewhat flat in places, fun summer film. While it is great to see Will Smith back in blockbuster mode, Josh Brolin steals the film as young Agent K and Jermaine Clement gives a worthy successor to Vincent D’Onofrio’s wonderful villain from MIB1.Notbrilliantbutnotrubbisheither.Unfortunately

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The Raid HHHHHDirected by Gareth Evans. starring: iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Ray sahetapy.

IN the slums of Jakarta, a vicious crime lord turns a tenement block into his personal fortress. A SWAT team are sent to take him out alive but find more than they bargained for once in the building.

I don’t like martial arts films, never have. So when I went to go see The Raid I wasn’t expecting much. I love it when a film surprises me and The Raid did more than surprise me; it totally blew me away.

This is much more than a martial arts film, it’s one of the greatest action films I have ever seen with everything you want in a film, a hero you want to cheer for and a villain that you hate from the first frame. I can’t fault it in too many places, the performances are solid, the action is brutal and yes, it is extremely violent but it does not mar what is an extremely effective survival thriller.

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lucan in Brief...Drug seizure in Lucan AS a result of an on going operation by the Clondalkin Drug Unit, a search was carried out by the unit on a house at Mount Andrew Courtt, Lucan.

During the course of the search Gardai discovered approx 15 kilos of heroin (pending analysis) with a street value of €2.25million.

A 37 year old male was arrested and detained at Clondalkin Garda station under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 as amended.

Enviromental Award for St Josephs College Students STUDEnTS from St. Joseph’s Community College in Lucan were the joint winners of the Junior ECO-Art and Design Award for their project Eco-Warriors: Our Action/The Reaction, at the recently held ECO UnESCO young Environmentalist awards which took place in the Mansion House Dublin.

Lucan Ruaille Buaille festival a great successSOUTH Dublin County Council Arts Office and Library Services recently welcomed Ireland’s leading traditional band SLIDE who conducted a week long programme of workshops, masterclasses and concerts as part of Ruaille Buaille Lucan, 2012.

SLIDE’s festival residency will concluded with a live, outdoor per-formance in Griffeen Park, Lucan. A number of young performers from South Dublin County also took part in masterclasses and work-shops throughout the festival week.

Ruaille Buaille Lucan also played host to Musical Theatre Ireland’s Operantics who performed Mozart’s The Magic Flute (an abridged version for children) in an open air performance on Lucan Village Green. The afternoon also featured a wide range of other opera events and fun family activities.

Other highlights of this year’s festival included an outdoor perform-ance by World Music exponents Tig Linn, a piano recital by Conor Linehan celebrating the 150th birthday of Debussy, a guitar recital with Pavlos Kanellakis, a students concert delivered by students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music as well as a host of workshops, con-certs and events in various venues around the Lucan area which catered for schools and families throughout the festival week. Over forty events took place over six days, making Ruaille Buaille Lucan 2012 an all round success.

No social welfare office for Lucan MInISTER for Social Protection Joan Burton has said there are cur-rently no plans to open a social welfare office to serve the Lucan area. She was responding to a Daíl question from local TD Joanna Tuffy. Deputy Tuffy had asked the if there were any plans to open a second social welfare office in Lucan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Minister Burton responded by saying that at present Jobseeker claims for people living in the Lucan area are administered by the Social Welfare Local Office in Clondalkin and signing-on for the majority of jobseekers occurs once in a 4-week period.

She continued that in order to avoid the necessity for people in Lucan to travel to Clondalkin, the Department opened a signing centre in Lucan village. “That signing centre was initially open two days per month. However, with the increasing numbers claiming Jobseeker’s payments, this was increased to four days and subsequently to five days per month since July 2010. The Department will continue to keep the arrangements for serving the Lucan area under review, in consulta-tion with the Office of Public Works, which is responsible for the acquisition of all accommodation requirements for the Department,” said the Minister.

Council launches Mobile App for ‘Fix Your Street’A nEW ‘Fix your Street’ Smartphone Application has been launched by SDCC. Using the Android mobile phone ‘app’ a member of the public will be able to locate the exact location where they are via their phone’s GPS in order to position a report, and send details of an issue they encounter with photograph attached if appropriate (fly tipping, pothole, graffiti, etc.) to the ‘Fix your Street’ service. The ‘fix your street’ app is free to download for android devices and will also be available shortly for iPhone users.

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