Monthly Archives: March 2011

 

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Heartbreak House, Co Wicklow.

Top right: the owner – author and PR, Jillian Godsil.

Mmmf. Promised. We wouldn’t…cry.

Hang on.”lovingly restored”?  But didn’t think of planting so much as a daffodil bulb.

Some people don’t deserve gardens.

Too soon?

Jillian Godsil Website

The owners of a 7,000-ton cargo ship which ran aground at Casla Bay in Connemara, Co Galway, are trying to establish it can be refloated later today.

The German-owned ship, with 14 crew on board, arrived yesterday and was due to pick up two small passenger ferries at Rossaveal Harbour.

The two boats had been repossessed by a bank and were sold in Galway last month.

Cargo Ship Runs Aground Off Connemara (RTE)

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Back in February on RTE’s The Eleventh Hour she took on Fintan O’Toole and Eamon Dunphy and lived to tweet the tale.

Last night it was daddy’s turn…

Elaine Byrne: “You seem to be less than sure about your own opinion about Michael Lowry. Do you think that he’s not profoundly corrupt? Do you have a doubt about his ethical, moral character?”

Vincent Browne: “I don’t make judgments about people’s moral character; unlike you, I don’t make judgments about anybody’s moral character.”

Byrne: “Do you dispute, do you dispute – ”

Browne: “I could, just, you, you… You asked me a question, do I, do I, do I agree with the judgment about his moral character, no I don’t. I don’t make judgments about people’s moral character. No.”

Byrne: “Isn’t that, perhaps, why we are the way we are? Because we need people to be up front and just hands up – ”

Browne: “Judgment about moral character? Absolute rubbish.”

Byrne: “- and say, and say, and say what’s wrong.”

Browne: “Absolute nonsense.”

Byrne: “Because you did something very similar in relation to Haughey as well and you were less than equivocal [sic] about him as well at the time, and I think that it’s not just politicians that need to put up their hands, it’s also the media that need to put up their hands and be upfront and straight. And maybe what we need to have –”

Browne: “Are you suggesting I’m not?”

Byrne: “No, what I’m suggesting is instead of having a debate about a debate in the Dáil, and a debate about a debate which we’re having here – ”

Browne: “What do you mean a debate about a debate we’re having here?”

Byrne: “What we should be doing is having a discussion here about chapter 62 of the report and the 24 recommendations that Justice Michael Moriarty has presented.”

Browne: “Well thank you for… Well, you knew what you were coming on to talk about tonight. It wasn’t specifically about chapter 64 and if you wanted to talk about chapter 64 you should have waited until the ?? ”

Byrne: “Chapter 62.”

Watch full episode here

Video clip via Squid Limerick