Three quarters of the children placed in residential care in Ireland live in commercial accommodation. Investors have entered this growing industry, where inspections of the largest owners’ children’s homes show a mixed record.
Junior fell into our lives at the start of 2020. Like, literally fell into the Guinness yard (which is technically our back garden) while I was working from home at the start of the pandemic.
She was a tiny cub who got separated from her mother and fell 50 feet from an adjacent yard, resulting in what we suspected was a broken rear leg or hip. Feeling sorry for her we would throw in scraps of food, thinking she would probably disappear.
But she decided to make the James’s Gate keg yard her home. Three years later, she still comes every night (on the dot of 7:30). She likes chicken, tofu, and Linda McCartney veggie sausages. She hates prawns, chips or potatoes.
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The inspiration? "I was like, Oh my God, what's happening with my life?” says founder Sarah Ó Tuama. “Like, is this what being an adult is? It's so boring.”
Hopefully it’ll create something like a musical bridge between Ireland and Japan in some way, says Emmy Shigeta, whose lyrics are sung almost entirely in Japanese.