RTE Radio 1 Debate MP3: Joe Higgins -v- Donal Barrington on Lisbon

South Dublin County Council have agreed to lease their domestic refuse collection routes to Greyhound waste for an undisclosed amount of money with the handover due to happen on Monday 4^th of April.

Elysium is a dystopian sci-fi action film released in August 2013, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Set in the year 2154, it follows the story of Max da Costa, a factory worker living in the ruins of a future Los Angeles. In this future, the rich and powerful have fled the poverty, disease, and environmental destruction they’ve wrought on the world, and moved to a space station called Elysium. There they live in an idyllic society, far removed from the struggle of ordinary people on earth.

Savita Halappanavar’s death prompted the vast majority of ordinary women and men in this country to ask the same question as Savita’s husband Praveen: “How can this happen in a country like Ireland in the 21st century?”