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OSCAR-WINNING animatorsCathal Gaffney and DarraghO’Connell of Smithfield-basedBrown Bag Films have prom-ised to scour the schools inDublin’s most disadvantagedareas to find the next Walt Dis-ney, Fred Quimby or MattGroenig.
“We have always recruitedfrom [third level] schools inDublin, but this time we will belooking for those who’ve justfinished secondary school,”Brown Bag’s Susan Cunning-ham told Local News last Fri-day.
And she was adamant thatshe’d be looking locally.
“We have a new scheme,where we will be school-leaversto work as interns, with just onebig specification: you have tolove to doodle and to draw!”
News of the internshipscame as the world-famous,Dublin-based company an-nounced a hundred-head re-cruiting drive. About 70 of thejobs will be based in Dublin,creating 3-dimensional anima-tion for shows such as PeterRabbit and Doc McStuffins. Afew will be in the “2-D” studioin Manchester, home to I’m AnAnimal and Wobbly Land.
“So far, we’ve had greatsuccess recruiting from PulseCollege [Ringsend] and DITjust up the road [site of the for-mer Grangegorman Hospital],and from the National Collegeof Art, DLIADT [in DunLaoghaire] and BallyfermotSenior College.”
There is a surprising twistto the talent-search: while the
most obvious skill they need isthe ability to draw, even entry-level animators are asked tohave a sense of story:
“If you don’t have that, ifyou don’t have a feel for com-edy or pathos, then it’s veryhard to follow what the directorhas in mind for your part of the
narrative.”So even the new recruits,
while not creating stories, willneed to understand and appre-ciate them.
While all in Brown Bag aresupportive of a talented stu-dent finishing out their degree,the truth is, according to one
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“It’s happened. We offerthem the choice, join us now orfinish your degree. But, to behonest, the best Master’s they’llever get is working for us!”
Given talent and drive, the
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rise of an entry-levelworker can be mete-oric. Brown Bag werecoy about salaries, butgood cartoonists willbe “earning enough tolive in Dublin” by theirmid-20s. A figure of€50,000 was floated(for a rising star) anddid not raise an eye-brow. But after that,
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Mention of copy-ing “acetates” willsound medieval tosome of Brown Bag’snew intake. All willdraw, but few will useold-style acetates or“cels”.
In the late 1920s,cartoon pioneers likeMax Fleischer andWalt Disney drewBetty Boop andMickey Mouse ontransparent cels (latermade of acetate). Thecolour was applied onthe reverse, and thecel was photographed,one drawing at time,
against a backgroundof painted card.Twenty-four minorworks of art wereneeded for a singlesecond of full motion.
Astoundingly, thispainstaking, time-consuming craft re-mained unchangedfor decades, with TheSimpsons being cre-ated in this manneruntil relatively re-cently.
Now, it is all butdead.
About one percentof today’s cartoons arecreated using theselate 1920s methods.
A further 30 percent are made in “dig-ital 2D”, a hybrid thatstarts as a line drawing(sometimes on paper,often on a digitaltablet) but is soonscanned into a digitalformat. Colour isadded not by hand-painted cels, but bythe clicks of a mouse.
But a growingnumber of animatedfilms — and nearly all
produced by BrownBag in Smithfield —are created in “digital3D”.
In 3D animation, acharacter may startlife as a scribble on anenvelope, or a doodlewith a digital pen.Soon, however, thecharacter is fully“modelled”, given animaginary height,girth and costume ona screen. 3D anima-tion programmes(many of them pio-neered by the lateSteve Jobs of Apple)can swivel anything —a furry rabbit, a fish, acar — in three dimen-sions.
That very fur itselfis a job description:Brown Bag are actu-ally looking for digital“fur renderers” whospecialise in nothingbut making lifelike furand hair on a com-puter.
Brown Bag, in ad-dition to creating itsown characters andstories — a part of the
job that Gaffney andO’Connell are anxiousto expand — acts as aservice company, pro-viding digital “gloss”,finish and post-pro-duction to work thatcomes in from abroad,mainly the UnitedStates.
In part this mas-sive expansion hasbeen fuelled the pur-chase of the companyby Toronto-based 9Stories Media Group.This means far betterdistribution for theIrish company’s films.
Any regrets?“Not at all,” says
one Brown Bag vet-eran.
“For once, whenthe buyer said, ‘Keepdoing what you’redoing’, they actuallymeant it.”
Perhaps. However,we may see fewer ofthe quirky hits thatmade the company fa-mous. Give Up Yer AulSins was a throwbackto Fleisher-era hand-inked animation, with
a rough-edged lookthat gave it an irre-sistible charm.
T h r e e - d i m e n -sional bunnies withcomputer-generatedfur will sell in a thou-sand markets, butmay not challenge ourimagination — ortickle our funny boneslike Brown Bag’s ear-lier hits. So Manches-ter, with its moretraditional 2D produc-tion methods, mayhave landed the bestof Brown Bag’s artisticheritage.
And 9 Stories maytake most of thespoils: the money,today, is not in thefilms, but in the char-acter licenses.
Licensing makesbillions, not millions.
So if Cathal andDarragh come up withtheir own MickeyMouse, Hello Kitty orW i n n i e - t h e - Po o h ,they may rue the daythey sold a Smithfieldgoldmine to the Cana-dians.
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Postmaster anger as statebreaks payments promiseA PRE-ELECTIONpromise by Fine Gael— to keep social wel-fare and pensionpayments in thelocal Post Office — isabout to be broken.
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Mr Kelly believesthat the governmentwas particularly wor-ried that he wasstanding in DublinCentral, the sameconstituency asu n d e r - p r e s s u r eTransport Minister(now Public Expen-diture Minister)Paschal Donohoe.
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FF finally listens to Prophet Prof on “SME vultures”TWO YEARS of cov-erage by Local News,drawing attention tothe 100,000+ jobs injeopardy because ofbad SME (small andmedium enterprise)borrowings, is finallyattracting attention.
We first drew at-tention to the SMEjobs crisis in 2014,just before the May
2014 local elections.We were alerted bylecture delivered byMorgan Kelly, UCD’s“Prophet Prof”, tothe college’s Eco-nomics Society ear-lier that year.(YouTube search:Whatever Happenedto Ireland? MorganKelly)
In a headline,
“VOTE, and MakeYour Job the NumberOne Election Issue”we relayed the Pro-fessor’s warnings:
• an ECB/EU-in-spired shakeout ofIrish banks was onthe way
• banks herewould panic, and tryto clean up dodgyloan books by selling
FF’s McGRATH: getting tough on vultures
off IOUs at a hugediscout
• many loanswould be SME re-lated, and thosebusinesses, allowner-dependent,would go bust underthe strain of vultureseizure of assets
• tens of thou-sands of butcher-baker-and-candlestick-maker jobs wouldbe lost.
We also offeredProfessor Kelly’s so-lution — and hiswarning that itwould never be im-plemented because,to politicians, SMEswere neither impor-tant nor glamorous:
• triage the SMEsunder pressure
• offer an ele-ment of debt forgive-ness and, moreimportant, a repay-ment holiday
• allow them tocontinue trading,then revisit them in 3to 5 years.
To this, LocalNews added an “op-tional extra”: that,failing such State ac-tion, a philanthropicor social enterpriseshould swoop inahead of the vulturesand buy the loans.
Then, we sug-gested, another be-nign entity — like theexisting debt charityPhoenix Project, forexample — could as-sist the borrower toeventually servicethe loan, at a much-reduced rate of inter-est.
Now, Fianna FáilFinance Spokesper-son Michael Mc-Grath has vowed toforce through meas-ures to curb vulturefund activity. And as-toundingly, eventougher anti-vulture
measures have beenproposed by theMaster of the HighCourt.
“There must begreater protectionfor mortgage holdersand SMEs whoseloans have beentransferred to vulturefunds,” Deputy Mc-Grath has said.
McGrath’s pro-posed protectionsinclude:
• bringing vul-ture funds, or “nonbank entities”, underthe same regulatoryscrutiny as banks
• preventing vul-tures from forcingsummary bankrupt-cies or evictions
• allowing theCentral Bank to insiston the lowering of in-terest rates in banks,and in the vultureswho may inherittheir IOUs.
However, the“Morgan Kelly Solu-tion” is far more rad-ical. It proposes aform of limited debtforgiveness, via ei-ther reduction incapital, in interestrates, or both.
We put all ele-ments of this plan to
both political partiesbefore the generalelection earlier thisyear, but elicited nointerest.
Our sole sup-porter was BrídSmith (AAA, DublinSouth Central) andher colleagues in theAnti-Austerity Al-liance. She, PhoenixProject and ex-mem-bers of the League ofCredit Unions arecurrently seeing if itmight be possible topurchase troubledSME debt. This couldbe done by Irish-based debt charities,social enterprises orother philanthropicbodies.
Slowly but surely,the Local News sup-port for the “MorganKelly Measures” isbeginning to gaintraction.
It is possible, forexample, that FiannaFáil, aware of the mi-nority government’sprecarious position,could now forcethrough its own or
Professor Kelly’seven more radicalanti-vulture meas-ures.
The party mayeven agree to beatingthe vultures at theirown game, buyingup SME and dis-tressed mortgagedebt.
And already, oth-ers are coming onboard. Justice Ed-mund Honohan, theMaster of the HighCourt, said the Stateshould “wave good-bye to the vulturefunds” by purchas-ing their properties
The judge evensuggested that theynot be allowed tomake a penny inprofit from the deal.
Justice Honohanwas appearing be-fore the OireachtasCommittee on Hous-ing and Homeless-ness.
He proposed theuse of existing com-pulsory purchaselegislation to buy thev u l t u r e - p l a g u e d
properties.“The price they
paid for these prop-erties in the last threeyears is well belowwhat they shouldhave been paying toNama and IBRC,”Judge Honohan ob-served.
“We pay themback all of thatmoney and wavegoodbye to them.”
He dismissedconcerns expressedby Fine Gael’sMichael Noonan thatthis was an attemptto interfere with themarket:
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“They’re used toit.”
• See our report,Loans Sold By For-eign Banks ClosingLocal Businesses,available in the on-line South edition,April 14 2016, on lo-calnews.ie
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“The planner put
in his recommenda-tion to have the mastremoved,” the in-sider said.
“It was his opin-ion that that it was inbreach of planningguidelines.”
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way if such struc-tures are of “strategic
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State on in region inwhich it would besituate [sic]”.
However themast did not, in theplanner’s opinion,qualify under the testof strategic eco-nomic or social im-portance.
“My informationwas that his bosses inthe City put himunder pressure,” theinsider told LocalNews.
“His superiorswere not in favour ofhis decision. He islikely to be asked toreconsider.”
The financialpressure to do so isimmense: IarnródÉireann have alreadyinstalled dozens ofthese communica-tion masts up anddown the country.
If the decision onthe mast in St Anne’sRoad, Drumcondra,
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A firm decisionon the future of thenorth Dublin mast —and therefore ondozens of others, na-tionwide — was ex-pected just as LocalNews was going topress.
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Pictured were Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind VolunteersFrank and Ava Foley with their son Eanan (age 14) fromBeaumount with puppy in training Blake collecting formuch needed funds on Grafton Street for Guide DogDay. In its 40th year, the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blindbegan their most important fundraising campaign everon 29 April.
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Pictured with budding entrepreneurs Conor O’Flaherty, Luke Lyons, Molly Tunstead and Chloe Quijano from Mother of Divine GraceSchool, Ballygall at the Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) Showcase Day in Tayto Park are JEP sponsors Michael Dawson,One4All CEO and John Tuohy, Nightline CEO. Founded in 2010, the Junior Entrepreneur Programme is a 10 - 16 week entrepre-neurial education programme for primary school pupils. As a partner of the programme Nightline CEO, John Tuohy spoke to stu-dents in Dublin primary schools to help give the children inspiration and a taste of what it is to be an entrepreneur.
Historic wins for Coolmine R.F.C.
COOLMINE R.F.C. has been celebrating history being made atthe club. Their under 15s have pulled off a treble winning sea-son with the Leinster Premier League, The Leinster Schoolsand youth Cup and The metro Plate now sitting in their trophycabinet.
Captain Conor Kelly has led the finest squad in Leinsteryouth rugby to victory, beating such lofty opposition as Wan-derders, Barnhall, Malahide, Clontarf, Terenure, Lansdowneand Cill Dara and not just once but on several occasions dur-ing the action packed season. This team has been many yearsin the making and can boast team players from all over thenorthside of Dublin city and indeed from different cultural ori-gins . Its cosmopolitan complexion has given it a real cuttingedge as boys from non traditional rugby backgrounds havebeen attracted to the game.
This was initiated by Anita and Andrew Kelly who intro-duced competitive rugby to St Vincent's School in Glasnevin.Indeed the current squad contains 8 players who had attendedthat school. Head coach Micheal McDonagh has trained thisteam now for nine years and his dedication and enthusiasmfor the game and this team has finally paid off, he is ably as-sisted by fours coaches, Ciaran Lanigan, John Mahon, LiamColgan and Andrew Kelly.
As if to confirm the premier status of the players that theunder 15s possess no less than five of them have been selectedto play for the Metro club side that will compete I the ShaneHorgan cup next season. In truth most, if not all, could havebeen chosen, but with the rugby school rule barring some andthe need to include other teams in this process their numberhas been limited. This team is one to watch for the future.
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MULHUDDART VILLAGE was the venue for the unveiling of a fine monument tocommemorate 1916 recently. Crowds gathered from midday before marching foamthe cemetery to the village to hear main speakers Gerry Kelly MLA, and Cllr PaulDonnelly. After the unveiling a number of wreaths, were laid including one from theMayor of Finglas. Many of the wreaths were made by local florists Angel Flowers inMulhuddart Village. It was a day for all and many families cam and spent in theafternoon in he village which was closed to traffic for the occasion.
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Top - Pictured last week at the Show Racism the Red Card creative competition awards ceremony in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin werestudents from Colaiste Pobail Setanta in Clonee, Co. Dublin. Show Racism the Red Card is an international anti-racism and educationcharity. In Ireland, the organisation’s annual creative competition calls on young people to develop creative messages about racismand integration using written, visual and audiovisual means. At last week’s awards ceremony, prizes were awarded for entries rang-ing from songs and raps to posters, videos and social media campaigns. The event was attended by over 600 young people fromthroughout Ireland. Further information is available at www.theredcard.ie. Pic: Barry Cronin.
Bottom - Pictured last week at the Show Racism the Red Card creative competition awards ceremony in the Aviva Stadium in Dublinwere students from Holy Spirit Boys National School in Ballymun, Dublin 11. Show Racism the Red Card is an international anti-racism and education charity. In Ireland, the organisation’s annual creative competition calls on young people to develop creativemessages about racism and integration using written, visual and audiovisual means. At last week’s awards ceremony, prizes wereawarded for entries ranging from songs and raps to posters, videos and social media campaigns. The event was attended by over 600young people from throughout Ireland. Further information is available at www.theredcard.ie. Pic: Barry Cronin.
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Stoneybatter chef says the future is foodTWENTY-one transi-tion year studentsfrom Margaret Ayl-ward CommunityCollege are amongthe thousands of stu-dents from schoolsright across Irelandwho are discoveringthat The Future isFood by taking partin an innovative ex-periential learningprogramme createdby Bord Bia and TheTASTE Council ofIreland.
The students areworking with Stony-batter chef SarahO’Leary (usuallyfound in the kitchenof celebrated café ASlice of Cake), whohas given up herMonday mornings tohelp them createtheir own range ofvegetable crisps.
Under thewatchful eye ofhome economicsteacher MargaretDockery, Sarah andthe students havebeen working onways in which theycould produce theirown version of thepopular savourysnack using carrots,parsnips and sweet
potatoes along with avariety of flavourcombinations cre-ated by the girls fromherbs and spices.
The Future isFood was designedto engage transitionyear students withIreland’s artisan foodindustry throughpractical insight andreal-life experienceas a way of inspiringthe next generationof Irish food entre-preneurs and advo-cates. It contains
twenty NCCA (Na-tional Council ofCurriculum Assess-ment) approved les-son plans that focuson topics such as en-trepreneurship, foodorigin and Bord Bia’sOrigin Green sus-tainability pro-gramme, as well asresearch, new prod-uct developmentand marketing.
Home econom-ics teacher MargaretDockery said thatThe Future is Food
has been a real jour-ney of discovery forthe students, manyof whom would notpreviously have con-nected the food thatthey eat with the in-gredients fromwhich it is made.
“It is really goodfor the girls to meetpeople from industryas it makes what theyare doing and learn-ing real,” said Mar-garet Dockery.
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given the girls such avaluable insight intothe working life of achef, not to mentionthe stages involvedin developing a newfood product.
“It was impor-tant to work onsomething that thegirls were all familiarwith. Together, wechose the simple po-tato crisp as a way ofexperimenting withdifferent kinds ofroot vegetables andflavour combina-tions. Deliberatelynot using a recipewas part of the learn-ing curve in that itencouraged the girlsto think creativelyabout how theywould go about mak-ing vegetable crispsand adding flavourto them.
“Not only hasthis enabled the stu-dents to becomemore aware of foodand, interestingly,portion sizes, but ithas also taught themso many valuablelife-lessons such hashow to work effec-tively as a team, re-spect differingopinions, deal withthings not goingquite to plan and theimportance of con-sistency.”
Chef SarahO’Leary, who haslong had an interestin food education,said that it was a joyto be able to intro-duce the students tothe food industry in away that engagedand inspired them.
“I first discovereda love for teachingwhen working withchef Raymond Blancat his cookery schoolin England. And, it iswonderful to see thatthe girls are so recep-
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LADIES WIN CUPThe Village Inn ladies darts team have won the Vintners’ Ladies Darts Cup and the team is pictured here shortly after the victory.
Finglas beauty blogwinners stay hands-onWINNING thebiggest award in thebeauty blog calendarwon’t tempt Finglasmakeup aces Jen-nifer Donohoe andCiara Clinton awayfrom real-world facesand people.
“To be honest,we’re too busy withour students and ourclients to spendhours and hours up-loading onYouTube!” Ms Dono-hoe told Local Newslast weekend. Sheand Ciara Clintonwere still full of thehighs they felt whentheir beauty blogwon Best In Categoryat the Irish BloggersAssociation Awardsin Dublin’s RadissonHotel on April 30.
Free access to theblog is availablethrough theirmakeup school web-site, mattetometal-lic.com.
“It was quite anachievement, withover forty beautyblogs in contention,”Ms Donohoe notes.
It was open tonominees from bothsides of the border,and there was someformidable competi-tion. A quick look atthe blog reveals whyJennifer and Ciaramanaged to take thegold medal:
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“Jurors” should not replyto scam summons, say CourtsTHE COURTS SERV-ICE has warnedDubliners not toreply to scam emailsclaiming that they’vemissed compulsoryjury service.
The emails, [email protected] — a scamaddress — purport tolevy a “new fine” of€500 for those whohave failed to attendfor jury duty. How-ever, those receivingthe emails have not,in fact, been sum-moned.
“If you are in factcalled for jury duty,you will receive a let-ter in the post,” aCourts Service clerktold Local News.
“We have heardof these scam emails,
and of course theyare not from us.”
The Service saysthat prospective ju-rors are given ampletime to respond and,in practice, thosewho come up with areasonable cause areexcused from serv-ice. Fines and sum-monses to jury duty
are always sent by AnPost, and usually reg-istered.
The Gardaí, whoissue summonses fornon-attendance ofjurors, do not keep arecord of the numberthey have issued inthe last 12 months.However, it is be-lieved that very few if
any prosecutions fornon-attendance —or non-payment offines — have been is-sued in the last fewyears. The scam let-ters cheat recipientsusing a two-stepprocess. The firstemail, essentially a“fishing” letter,sternly warns about
“fines” and “crimes”.Should the recipientreply, the scammersregard them as being“on the hook”. Theythen say that a fine of€500 will purge anycriminal record.
However, the realdanger comes withthe scammers’ de-mand for bank de-tails, whichaccompanies the de-mand for payment.Even if a victimsends the €500 as in-structed, there is noguarantee that thecheats will stopthere. Typically, theywill find ways to usethis information to“hack” the accountand remove manymultiples of thatsum.
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all Councillors to include their details in our ongoing guide. You can contact
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Be yourown lifecoachClinical Hypnotherapist
KIERAN FITZPATRICKadvises in his regular column onhow to achieve your goals.
WELCOME back and I hope that those of youwho have followed this series of articles so farhave made great strides towards setting andachieving goals and ambitions in your lives.Others, who have caught individual articles,have, I hope, gleaned useful nuggets in the wayof suggestions, ideas, techniques and actionsthat either make life in general a smoother ride,or assist in particularly difficult situations.
In this article we’re going to go full circleand revise what our goals or ambitions are. Wewill look at an excellent way of refining theseand setting them up as targets for us. In this waywe engage the most powerful parts of ourminds to achieve them.
We often hear now about “visualisation”and visualising an outcome. Successful sportspeople do this all the time in preparation forperforming at their best. They spend a lot oftime visualising their performance in great de-tail in their imagination. Then, after much men-tal rehearsal, the actual action of doing it ismuch more efficient.
So it is with all things. The more we men-tally rehearse something the more likely we areto execute it successfully in reality. So let’s lookat a proven technique for doing this effectivelyand easily. We’ll call it “My Ideal Day”.
It’s nice to have all sorts of different goals indifferent areas of our lives. What would be greatis to be able to imagine what all of them to-gether would mean to you. One of the best waysof doing this is to take some time out to createyour Ideal Day.
Use your imagination to do this and fill inas much detail as you can. Imagine it from themoment you wake up on the morning of yourIdeal Day to the time you fall asleep. How wouldit begin? Where would you be? What kind of en-vironment would you be in? Where would yougo? What would you do at each moment of thatday? What people would be involved? Whatwould you be doing with, or saying to, them?What would they be saying to you? How wouldyou be dressed? What kinds of things would yoube saying to yourself? What kind of expressionwould be on your face? How would your pos-ture and general demeanour be? And howwould it feel to be climbing into bed at the endof your Ideal Day?
Remember, all the results, achievements,actions and realities you experience start fromcreations in your mind, whether you controlthose creative thoughts or not! So start to takecontrol. How can you achieve a dream if youdon’t know what it is?! If you don’t make yourown plan you will end up fitting into someoneelse’s.
Now, the first time you try this you may findit hard work. It may take a few efforts before itbecomes easier. But the truths behind it are un-deniable and another truth is this, all success isbased on hard work. But it can be enjoyable.You have the choice of either designing yourown life or suffering the regret that goes with “Ishould have….”
Imagine a precise vision of your desired life,focus on it every day. And the power of yourmind will guide your thoughts and actions toproduce your desired results.
Kieran Fitzpatrick ADHP MIAEBP is an ex-perienced Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP practi-tioner and Personal Coach. His practices are inDublin 2 and Dublin 12. For more details call087-1227361, e-mail: [email protected] or see www.kieranfitzpatrick.com
THE HSE, officiallypatient centred, hasbanned and dis-banded a 27-strong,highly successfulmental health self-help group in Bally-mun. Tús NuaBallymun scored off-the-chart successrates. Their methods,sometimes known as“peer-to-peer”, arenow endorsed by Pro-fessor Mark Monahanof Trinity CollegeDublin.
It’s a model that isalready huge in the USand, through studieslike those in Trinity, isbeing applied to moreserious disorders suchas paracusia. But noteveryone is pleased.HSE therapists, ad-ministrators and PRpeople have spendtens of thousands ofeuros commissioningand implementing“reports”, “assess-ments” and “recom-mendations” to get ridof Tús Nua. (It wasoriginally HSEfunded.) In 2014, the“Tús Nua 27” (origi-nally 43, with somelater banned for hav-ing “only” a GP refer-ral) picketed the CivicCentre, wrote to TDsand contacted thisnewspaper with thesame plea: “Tús Nua ishelping us. Don’t getrid of it!”
We covered theirstruggle in three edi-tions. In our first, July17 2014, we reportedthat the HSE told us:
“[At a] meeting onMay 22 the report, in-cluding its recom-mendation to closeTús Nua, wasadopted.”
Following localoutcry, then-MentalHealth Minister Kath-leen Lynch gave theDáil the impressionthat it might be saved.It was not. The story ofTús Nua Ballymunstarts life as a smallgroup of those withmild mental illnesses,mainly depression. Itwas facilitated by apsychiatric nurse,with patients referredmost often by theirlocal GP.
“It has been ofgreat benefit to meover the years,” saidone young mum.
“It has been a god-send. My family sayI’m a different per-son,” said “Sarah”, anOAP who had had de-pression for years.
“Sometimes, if Ifeel I’m sinking back,a meeting with theothers cheers me up,”said “Mary”. She lovedthe banter, the activi-ties, and the nursewho oversaw thegroup: “I can talk to
them, and to thenurse, and many ofthem have beenthrough the samething.”
Peer support,chat, a cup of tea, artsand crafts, trips out,and a psychiatricnurse as mediator.Simple, inexpensiveand effective.
The HSE’s first at-tack on the group wasaimed at their nurse.She was told that theGP referrals (whichthe HSE had alreadyaccepted) were to beretrospectively deemed “invalid”. Therewere tears and hugson all sides as the GP-referred were forcedout. Some got aroundthe problem, obtain-ing a psychiatric refer-ral “mar dhea”. Othersrefused. The numbersfell from 43 to 27.Then they were toldtheir meeting place (inan old shopping cen-tre) was “unsuitable”.They were ordered tonew premises in theCivic Centre. Cutswere made to space,hours, art classes andnumbers. Then theHSE therapists arrivedon the scene. Theypurported to “assess”the Tús Nua 27, with aview to referring themto other services. Butpatients told LocalNews that these “pa-tient advocates” andtherapists insultedand intimidated them,asking what they feltwere wildly inappro-priate questions abouttheir sex-lives:
“I felt totally vio-lated and abused,”one patient told LocalNews. Six patients,who spoke to LocalNews before Christ-mas, backed up theclaims and were simi-larly distressed andembarrassed.
“My conditionhad nothing to dowith sex at all,” saidone mother of three.
“He wanted me toswitch to psychiatrictherapy. I wanted tostay with Tús Nua,”said another.
“It seems we’rebeing bullied out of at-tending Tús Nua.”
However it nowappears that theseHSE “assessors” weremerely foot-soldiers,using these unpleas-ant methods to imple-ment a policy alreadydecided by HSEhigher-ups: close TúsNua.
In an email sendto Local News on De-cember 9, 2014, theHSE rationalised theban:
“Individuals orservice users who par-ticipate in formal serv-
ice programmes runby the MHS [MentalHealth Services] overprolonged periods oftime become sub-sumed by the mentalhealth care systemand thus become re-liant upon such pro-grammes to meettheir social, occupa-tional and friendshipneeds.” Note: “sub-sumed” and “reliant”.
Such terms wererightly used, duringthe 1980s and 90s, torattle the gates of Ire-land’s Victorian asy-lums. And peoplewere indeed often“subsumed” for years,decades, and entirelifetimes, in suchthen-filthy hovels asPortrane. But a kind ofpsychological incar-ceration happenstoday, with conven-tional psychiatrictherapy relying heavilyon drugs — and ex-tremely costly,lengthy, one-on-onetreatment. It is clini-cally accurate to callthe Tús Nua 27 pa-tients “subsumed”and “reliant” becausethey enjoyed eachothers’ affection andsupport? Did medicalethics not demandthat the patientsthemselves have a sayin the matter? Or werethey deemed too “un-well” to exercise freechoice?
Those who agreedto be re-assessed werereferred for clinicaltreatment in a centrein Drumcondra —some 2½ miles (3.7km) for home. Manydidn’t want to go. Oth-ers, lacking transport,could not.
Some did manageto keep in touch, inones and twos, withthe “27”. But Tús Nua,and their “wonderfulnurse”, and the laugh-ter, love and friend-ship, were gone. HSEclosed it down.
The “27” didn’t gowithout a fight. Theywrote letters to Minis-ters and TDs. Theypicketed. They weresupported by localpoliticians, notablySinn Féin’s CllrNoeleen Reilly, CllrCathleen Carney Boudand Dessie Ellis, TD.Even a HSE member,Dr Aoife PatriciaO’Neill, broke ranks tosupport the group.(Another HSE doctorconfessed to LocalNews that he was tooafraid to do so.)
Local News re-ported MinisterLynch’s apparent de-termination to backthe HSE ban. Howeverwe suggested,wrongly, that Lynch –and the HSE – would
lose, and that the pa-tients would win. Butfinally, in mid-2015,Tús Nua were beaten.Yet now, the “Tús Nua27” are about to scorea historic victory overthe HSE — just not,alas, on their owndoorstep. The HSE’spsychiatrist-centredmodel is already adead docket: too ex-pensive, too unwieldy(too few doctors fortoo many patients),too likely to lead to alifelong “Stelazineshuffle” or similarforms of dependency.
Tús Nua’s peer-to-peer formula, mean-while, is nowspreading around theglobe. Pioneered inthe US, proven in thislittle group in Bally-
mun, refined in cen-tres like Trinity CollegeDublin, it is starting tobe used for seriouspsychosis as well asmild disorders. It isproving so successfulthat, in Trinity, Profes-sor Mark Monahanhas employed it —with astounding re-sults — as a cure forparacusia or “hearingvoices disorder”.(Local News is inter-viewing ProfessorMonahan next week.)
Thousands in Ire-land, and millionsworldwide, will even-tually benefit from thepioneering success ofBallymun’s “MentalHealth Martys”, andby the nurse who didmore to help them getwell than dozens of
HSE reports, doctors,PR people and appa-ratchiks. While thecurrent governmentchooses to punish theTús Nua 27’s self-re-liance with a ban, theState will, eventuallyand inevitably, adopttheir peer-to-peermethods as their own.
Meanwhile, theTús Nua 27 have beenbeaten, but as a resultof their example —and that of a singlebrave nurse — manybroken lives will, inthe future, be repairedand redeemed. Youlost, but you won.
• Former Tús Nuapatients are invited toget back in touch withLocal News on [email protected], or087 913 3614
Mental Health Martyrs: the “Tús Nua 27”
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The ban extendsto all e-cigarette ad-vertising in newspa-pers, and to radioand TV — and evento factual informa-tion appearing oncompany websites.
Meanwhile, thesmall retailers andsuppliers who cre-ated the vaping mar-ket in Ireland saythat a new Royal Col-lege of Physicians’report proves thattheir products are ef-fective in helpingsmokers kick thehabit.
“Large-scale sub-stitution of e-ciga-rettes, or othernon-tobacco nico-tine products, for to-bacco smoking has
the potential to pre-vent almost all theharm from smokingin society,” the RoyalCollege study re-ported on April 28.
The Royal Col-lege goes further,with a startling rec-ommendation thatthe governmentshould actually pro-mote e-cigarettes “aswidely as possible”:
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“They have sim-ply transcribed anew EU law banningthe advertising of va-ping, but theyhaven’t even issuedproper guidelines,”Ms Golden told Local
News. This omission,she says, makes ven-dors vulnerable tolegal action — evenfor including simpleproduct information,and benefits, in theirwebsites:
“The TobaccoProducts Directive,in this country, hasbeen extended to e-cigarettes, but with-out any specificguidelines.”
She says that inthe UK, particularlyafter the Royal Col-
lege report, govern-ment ministers listenseriously to vapingmanufacturers anddistributors.
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The AdvertisingStandards Authorityin the UK are incharge of settingstandards for e-ciga-rette advertising.Their rules stop wellshort of an outright
ban. The ad ban hasbeen in force in Ire-land since the mid-dle of May.
The Royal Col-lege report surveyedhundreds of smok-ers, and formersmokers who nowused e-cigarettes.They found that all,or nearly all, of theendangerment tohealth suffered bysmokers was re-moved when theyswitched from smok-ing to vaping.
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ST. BRIGID’S GAAWell done to our Senior Ladies Footballers on a great winagainst St Sylvesters in the Championship last Wednes-day.
Congratulations to Eoin Kennedy and Karl Browne on win-ning the All Ireland Senior Doubles Hardball Final inThurles on Saturday evening.
Best of luck to our Junior Hurlers in their Championshipgames this week!
The St Brigids GAA Mini Leagues 2016 will take placefrom Monday 13th June to Saturday 18th June in RussellPark. For boys and girls age 6-13 (still in National School)
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Summer is here and already we have had two heats of the Ms Finglas. The final is Wednesday 8th and as in the heats the final will;l be held in the Shamrock Lodge. Some top prizes are on offer including a hol-iday for two in Euriope. Be there for the final. There is a full night’s entertainment with the winner being announced around 11pm and the party continues. This year’s finalist along with their sponsors are; Saman-tha O’Rourke, Tesco Extra, Chloe Dubbyn, GP Motors, Amy Keegan Boost my Image. Kirstie Kelly Spelman Solicitors, Sonia Scurry Body Tec, Chloe Martin Merville Restaurant, Robbin Reilly Super Valu, JodieMartin Clever Buys, Sarah Price Shamrock Lodge, Mairead Christy Tesco, Ciara Ronan Fitt Conditioning, Kirsty Hubband AP Fashion Nails, Keira Timmins Tunney Opticians.
Great night out at the Village Inn
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For Band info Contact 087 – 2388666
Every Thurs
Sing Along with
Bobby Smith.
BALLADS IN THE BAR Sundays from 6-8pm
Saturday 4th GUILTY PARTYSunday 5th AFTER DAWNSaturday 11th STREETWISE & SPECIAL GUESTSunday 12th SOMETHING ELSESaturday 18th ANTO WACKIE & SPECIAL GUESTSunday 19th JAKER
Great night out at St Finbarrs GAA Club
DON’T MISS IRELAND’S FIRST MATCHFREE FINGER FOOD AT HALF TIME
Monday 13th from 5pm Ireland v Swedenfollowed by Full session with The Druids.
See in the Bar for details of all our promotions during the IrelandGames, with free food and entertainment throughout
Catering at the Club
ALL PARTY OCCASIONS CATERED FOR Christening • Weddings • 21st • 50th etc . Catering Service or Room Hire: (01) 868 6209
2 ADULTS MEALS & 2 KIDS MEALS
Adult meal choice: Roast Beef, Corned Beef,Lamb Shanks, Baked Ham, Lasagne or Chicken.
Desserts €3.50 • Ice Cream €2
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68-70 Botanic Road, Glasnevin. Phone 01 830 6024
Saturday 4th CROSSTOWN
Sunday 5th REWIND
Saturday 11th KNIGHTSHIFT
Sunday 12th JOHNNY GRAHAM
Saturday 18th HITCHEDSunday 19th CLAUDINE
EVENING FUNCTIONS & PARTY CATERING
Ask about our Special Offers Tel 01 830 6024
Traditional Music Session every Sunday from 4.30pm-7.30pm Monday Ballads from 9pm till late
Open Monday to Friday 5-9.30pm Saturday 12pm-9.30pmSunday 12-8pm
NEW VARIED
MENU
with Home made Soups or choose from our Mains: Gourmet Cheeseburger, Irish Shoulder of Lamb Stew,
Buttermilk Chicken Goujons, Veggie Black Bean & Chia Cheeseburger
DROGHEDALODGE, FINGLAS
VILLAGE.
WEDNESDAYS SPORTS NIGHT THURSDAYS OPEN THE
BOX FRIDAYS PLAY YOUR CARDS & MUSIC
O’RIORDAN’S DOES FRIDAYSFree Ham Rolls/Chip Butties 6pm & Play your Cards
FOOD AT THE FULL SHILLING & O’RIORDANS from 10.30am to 11.30pm EverydayPaninis • Pies • Pizza • Platters • Fish & Chips • Wedges • Fish Bites
Sat 4th MISS SMOOTHIE
Sun 5th DON’T TELL
Sat 11th BARON FATHER’S DAYSunday 19th
THE MUTTS from 4pmfollowed by DOUBLE TROUBLE
Fun Penalty Shoot out at 4pm
Complimentary Food at 6pm
Be in the Father’s Day Jar –
Winner takes all
Sun 12th KATHY KAYE
Sat 18th ALLEY CATS
IN OUR PRIVATE ROOF TOP TERRACE FUNCTION ROOM
21st, 30ths, big Birthdays, afterwedding parties, special occasion
LATE BAR • BEST LOCAL FUNCTION ROOM
BOOK NOW Ph: 01 834 6061
Enjoying a great night out at the Sunnybank Hotel Enjoying a great night out at O’Riordans
MINI MARATHON MONDAYBring back your medal and receive a surprise!
Followed by €1400 Jackpot Bank Holiday Monday with Sean Brodie.
SEE ALL THEMATCHES ON OUR
BIG SCREENSCheer on the Boys with friends.
Special promotions on the day,
including Burger & Pint offers
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DOORS CLOSE IN THE FULL SHILLING AT 1.30am ON WEEKEND NIGHTSENJOY ALL THE SPORTS ON OUR GIANT SCREEN
FOOD AT THE FULL SHILLING & O’RIORDANS from 10.30am to 11.30pm Everyday
Paninis • Pies • Pizza • Platters • Fish & Chips • Wedges • Fish Bites
Book your partyin our RooftopTerrace Lounge
Phibsboro’s Landmark Pub
DOYLES CORNER, PHIBSBORO, DUBLIN 7. PH: 01 830 1441
WATCH ALL LIVE SPORTING EVENTS ON OUR BIG SCREENS
JOHN DOYLES
More than 100 people attending and the getthe FUNCTION ROOM FREE. It will be fully decorated for your special occasion.
BOOK YOUR PARTY WITH US
Like us on Facebook: John Doyle Bar and Lounge
Range of Speciality Teas & Bewleys Coffee Now Being Served
TRAD NIGHTEvery Thursday
from 7pm Craic agus Ceoil
DRINK PROMOTIONS
Saturday 4th from 9.30pm
NIALL O’SOUL
Friday 3rd June from 10pm COME TO OUR
COCKTAIL PARTY DJ Playing the Greatest Sounds
Enjoying a great night out at the Greyhound Enjoying a night out at the Full Shilling
SEE ALL THE MATCHES ONBIGGEST SCREEN IN DUBLIN
Special promotions on the day, including Burger & Pint offers
Biggest Screen – Best Atmosphere
Come on Ireland!!
FATHER’S DAY Sunday 19th
BEER GARDEN PARTYPENALTY SHOOT OUT FUN
with DJ Liam in the evening
DJ Niall Regan
DJ Danny Roe
DJ Liam K and
DJ Robbie Dixon
BANK HOLIDAY
WEEKENDFRIDAY DJ Liam
SATURDAYDJ Danny Roe
SUNDAY DJ Robbie Dixon& DJ Niall Regan
in the Beer GardenMONDAY
Beer Garden Fun and welcome back all MiniMarathon participants
with special complimentary shots
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Bank Holiday Monday
served from 12-6pm
Family Deal
€252 Adults & 2 Children
This special offer is also now available on
Superb Sunday Carvery
June Bank HolidayWeekend Entertainment
All these gigs are free entrance
Monday 6thBILLY HUGHES & STREETWISE
Grand Cabaret Show
Back by Popular Demand Sunday 5th June
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FINGLAS VILLAGE
FOLLOW US
OPEN PUB HOURSPh: 085 825 9853
FRIDAYS CLASSIC HITS • FUN
TRIVIA QUIZ •VIDEOS • EURO
DRAW • PLAY YOURCARDS RIGHT
MONDAY NIGHT ISFOOTBALL NIGHT
SEE ALL THE PREMIERSHIP ACTION
THURSDAYSLIVE MUSIC
Food Served 7 Days
Sunday Family Meal DealUnder the management of local man
Stephen Higgins
2 Adults & 2 Kids €29.95Including FREE Jelly & Ice Cream for the Kids!
NEW BISTRO STYLE MENUserved from 12pm-9pm, 7 days
Value Carvery served from 12pm to 6pm on Sundays
ENJOY A DRINK IN OUR NEWLY RENOVATEDLOUNGE, UPSTAIRS
FUNCTION ROOM, GAMES ROOM AND BAR
Live EntertainmentSaturday 4th OUCH
Sunday 5th KAYE TWINSSaturday 1th ON THE QT
Sunday 12th SISTERS OF SORROWSaturday 18th 50/50
Saturday 25th SMART MOVESSunday 26th JUKEBOX
Sunday 19th June
Enjoying the live entertainment at the Bottom of the Hill Great night out at The Shamrock Lodge
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VW POLO (12)
€9,995
CITROEN C4 PICASSO (09)
€9,750
NISSAN QASHQAI (10)
€11,750
HYUNDAI GETZ (09)
€4,250
NISSAN NOTE (07)
€3,995
VW POLO (09)
€7,495
l Air Conditioning - Re-gas and Repairl Brakes, Clutches, Timing Beltsl NCT Pre-Test & Repairs l Suspension Repairsl Vehicle Diagnosticsl Tyres & Wheel Alignment l Mechanical Repairsl Quality Used Car Sales (trade-ins welcome)
l Emission Testing & Repairs
SERVICING ALL MAKES & MODELS OF CARS, VANS & JEEPS
Unit 48 Finglas Business Centre, Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin 11.
Phone: (01) 836 1977 • 087 644 3990 • Email: [email protected] www.klmotors.ie
TRADE-INS WELCOMEFREE WHEEL ALIGNMENT WITHEVERY 4 TYRES PURCHASED
FULL SERVICE FROM €120 FOR THIS MONTH T&Cs.
PRE-NCT CHECKONLY€20 FOR THIS MONTH
FREE COLLECTION & DELIVERY SERVICE on request
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Main Street, Blanchardstown, D15. Ph: (01) 822 6958. Email: [email protected]
Follow us on Face Book for Upcoming Events, Competitions & Prizes!The Greyhound Café Bar
Church Street, Finglas.
Tel 01 834 1180
HAVE YOUR PARTY WITH US FunctionRoom for all your special occasions
Saturday 4th BEE BOP GOLDSaturday 11th
JACK TO JACKSaturday 18th TOTALLY 80’s
Blossom Hill Red & White Wine..........2 for €15Selection of Wines................................from €5.99Carlsberg Cans ........................................8 for €11Coors Cans ................................................8 for €12Smirnoff 70cl......................................................€22Budweiser Cans........................................8 for €12Heineken Cans ........................................8 for €13Budweiser Bottles ..............................20 pack €22Bulmers Cans............................................6 for €10WKD/Smirnoff Ice/Breezers ............8 for €12.50Offers while stocks last
The Entertainment Hub of FinglasEVERY MONDAY Sing A Long in the Bar with Robbie
EVERY TUESDAY Bingo with Gar. Snowball prize to be won.EVERY FRIDAY Fun Karaoke with Fintan
EVERY SUNDAY Live Music & Sing along with Carl Philips
LIVE BANDS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
MONDAY MILLIONS DRAWJoin us in the bar every Monday evening for our
Monday Millions Draw. This weeks Jackpot is €220.
Saturday 25th WHO’S EDDIE
We deliver toyour door!
Call now and haveyour order deliv-ered to your door.on 01 8642454.
*ID is required forall deliveries,
deliveries available from 5pm 7 days.
MAKE US YOUR FAN HUB FOR THE EURO CUP FINALS
2 Giant Screens & 12 Flat Screen TVS Lots of great promos and offers on all Ireland matches
EUROS 2016 @ THE GREYHOUND CAFÉ BARWe are giving away an Ireland Jersey f
or each match in the group stages. Free Draw during the Irishmatch. We will be giving out 90 tickets.
Whoever gets the ticket with the time of the first goal wins 5 Pints and either side gets 2 Pints each.
We will be picking an Irish player to score the first goal and if he does, everyone in the pub gets a Free Pint!
We will be doing International Dish of the Day and Pint for €10all the way through the Euros. Plus we will have a EURO HUBin the Greyound. Book the Hub for 15 or more people to have
your own big screen with surround sound. Get free finger food for half time of any match for which it is booked. T&Cs apply.
TASTY NEW MENUCooked Fresh To Order!!
Guaranteed To Be On Your TableIn under 10 mins From When
your order is Taken!!Great Lunch Loyalty Card
Get yours Stamped every timeyou eat lunch to earn a free
Lunch!!Great New Gastro Menu Served
Till 9pm Daily!!Great Daily Specials Monday To
Friday From 3 to 9pm!!
