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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Ollie,
The link you give contains no obvious reference or corroboration of your story. Can you give another reference for this please.
people were saved from the Blaskets so they could be sold to corrupt politicians 50 years ago today.
i dont know what the blaskets has got to do with it? but as it's brought up here's my point
what's wrong with evacuating the island? it was far from a paradise? it was isolated and was not a place for young children or the elderly?
the fact is that the community was declining rapidly and had very little future as a community.
blame capitalism for it's assault on rural communities.
PS
the politicians do not own blaskets. i belive it's a national park. you're thinking of inis mhicilán, which is private property and bought by haughey.
http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/2003/05/05/current.asp#33546
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,449436,00.html
Food Workers Strike; Diplomats Plunder Cafeterias
Thousands of employees of the United Nations and member governments plundered thousands of dollars' worth of food, liquor and silverware from dining facilities at U.N. headquarters after food workers staged a wildcat strike Friday during lunch hour, Time reported over the weekend.
Amid a dispute between Restaurant Associates, which held the U.N. dining contract until Friday, and Aramark, which now holds the contract, the food workers' union was reportedly told Friday morning that U.N. food workers would not receive some vacation pay they were expecting. The dispute has been temporarily resolved, but on Friday before the agreement was reached, the workers staged a lunch-hour walkout.
As a result of the walkout, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and Security Council members, who were in a private lunch, were served a main course but no dessert or coffee, and service was shut down elsewhere in the complex. A person identified by Time as a "high- ranking U.N. official" soon ordered that cafeterias be opened as "no- pay zones," and the order was carried out at 1 p.m.
"It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene," an Aramark executive said of the scene that ensued. "They took everything, even the silverware."
A witness from U.N. security said the cafeteria was "stripped bare," while another described "crowds of people just taking everything in sight." Another witness said that "chickens, turkeys, souffles, casseroles all went out the door," while a U.S. diplomat, asked how much liquor was taken from a bar, said, "I stopped counting the bottles." Time reported that "some well-known diplomats" were among "the takers."
An Aramark executive estimated the value of food that was taken from the main cafeteria alone at $7,000 to $9,000 (Stewart Stogel, Time, May 3).
The UN is a dodgey as they come.[Inc the US Govt BTW] Oh well,it is just another UNbeliveable screwup.At least no one was killed...yet.If that world saving organization cant run its canteen properly,how do you think it will manage world affairs?
if you want to loot diplomatic booze and pastries all taht you may eat, remember to bring your diplomatic immunity papers with you.
The Blaskets were as unworkable as much of Connaught and certainly small parts of Munster.
Mo Bhrón!
yesterday RTE kindly presented a digiremastering of Peig Sayers speech on leaving the islands.
9.50th anniversary of evacuation of Blasket Islands
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Listen to a clip of Peig Sayers from 1947 in which she outlines what
life was like on the Blasket Islands when she first arrived there
28k - http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0529/morningireland/morningireland9a.smil
Michael De Mordha, Director of the Blasket Island Centre in Dunquin,
discusses the Blasket Islands 50 years after evacuation
28k - http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0529/morningireland/morningireland9b.smil