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The Daily PollRTÉ’S TELETEXT SERVICE, Aertel, is to close next week after 36 years in operation.
In what was deemed a “necessary evolution” in their 2024 plans, the broadcaster has already moved most of the services offered on Aertel to their online platforms.
RTÉ said there was a “need to prioritise the delivery of digital services to meet growing audience demand”.
An RTÉ spokesperson also noted that since the introduction of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, the broadcaster is “no longer legally required to provide a Teletext service”.
So today we’d like to know… When did you last use Aertel?
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The Simon Community, like SVdP, Peter McVerry and Focus Ireland, have a vested interest in maintaining homelessness.
It’s a business after all.
@Simon Sterne: wasn’t there a news report recently about some financial irregularity in the McVerry Trust, but silence since?
@Simon Sterne: what have you done to help the less fortunate recently?
@Joe Kelly: Plenty, but you won’t believe me anyway!
I’m confused 17% drop and a 20% increase?
@MHM: 20% increase refers to people now living in permanent homes, therefore no longer need and use homeless services
Mc Verry and his cronies are running out of rope,after demonising the small landlords gor years now coming back to haunt them..never had ant solutions only B/S rhetoric
@auben john: yeah cause housing over a 1000 people is definitely not a solution to homelessness is it?
And yet there’s a 17 percent rise in support for the Ukraine(a) war!
Far too many homeless charities all with high overhead costs. It’s a huge industry creating employment. Should be restructured into one agency and the money they save be spent on actual homeless people.
@Peter Barnwallace: the money was just resting in their account before they moved it on!
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