No idea. But there’s definitely an apostrophe on people’s president.

Martin McGuinness HQ via OisinOD

Irish Post Saved By British Publisher (RTE)

“Carrignafoy, Cobh today in a balmy 14 degrees.” (Lars Biscuit)

The rural edition of the Gay Mitchell campaign poster complete with mystery bald man and tractor.

Farmy.

Via Vincent Byrne

Via John Byrne

“It’s been much praised…particularly by the employers.”

The Minister For demonising people on welfare Social Protection defends JobBridge with Jonathan Healy on Newstalk.

Easy for him to say.

Context

First of all, eventual recovery after years of Depression-level unemployment is a strange definition of success. But there’s also a specifically Irish twist. Pharma accounts for a large share of Irish exports — but it makes a much smaller contribution to the Irish economy. Partly that’s because pharma uses a lot of imported inputs, so that it has relatively low domestic content. Partly that’s because pharma is very capital-intensive, employing very few people — and the capital is foreign owned, so that the contribution to Gross National Product, which deducts income paid to foreigners, is smaller than the contribution to Gross Domestic Product, which doesn’t. Indeed, Ireland is one of those countries where you really want to track GNP rather than GDP to get a sense of how the country is doing.

So how’s our GNP?

Oh

Ireland Triumphs! (Paul Krugman. New York Times)

Though don’t they though?

Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick – just civil-unioned – at the Unitarian Church on Stephen’s Green minutes ago.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)