22 thoughts on “De Wednesday Papers

  1. rotide

    I found it hard to believe that Bowie has only won one grammy so i googled it and lo and behold it’s sort of right. He won a lifetime achievement and a hall of fame but his actual music was only ever awarded once and that was for a video.

    The mind boggles, they literally give those things away to people on the street.

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      I’m often to be found in the street – literally – no-one’s ever given me an award.

    2. Jools

      After Jarjar Binks, Minions are literally the most annoyingly unfunny characters in recorded history.

      1. Anomanomanom

        I honestly don’t know what a jar binks is so can’t comment but minions come on, they are funny. I don’t know any kids who dislike them

  2. Jools

    “That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.”
    Noam Chomsky,

    1. DubLoony

      A Bus company that is the only public transport lifeline for the out of the way local village is not designed to make money. It needs public subvention.

      And a reasonable policy on carrying bikes.

  3. Rob_G

    Why is Maureen O’Sullivan writing letters in defence of people who are accused of being in possession of explosives???

    Jaysus – they haven’t gone away, you know…

    1. ivan

      Well, see, if you’re ‘accused’ and applying for bail then (regardless of charges) you’re presumed innocent and, in the main, entitled to bail. The Gardai can ask for any number of conditions be put in place – signing on, staying in the country, residing at a particular address, and they can ask for an independent surety. All of these are designed to ensure that the accused turns up to court.

      I know where you’re coming from – if a person is accused of a certain offence, you probably think ‘they shouldn’t get bail, at al’. Trouble is with that is that you’re into territory of locking people up *purely* on suspicion. And if you’re happy with that, sure just do away with the courts altogether, and let the guards decide the offences.

      1. DubLoony

        If the suspicion is that the accused might blow someone up, I can understand the whole erring on the side of caution.

        1. ivan

          Yup. As can I. It’s why Graham Dwyer didn’t get bail when he was awaiting trial. And with murder, if you reckon you’re going to go down for it, then there’s a (very dark) school of thought says that if you get bail on a murder, you should do a few contracts. In for a penny, sheep as a lamb etc.

          I don’t have a problem with bail being refused, but Rob_G was asking a question based on somethign that hadn’t happened. The TD didn’t write in mitigation or ‘defence’ re the sentence, but rather in relation to the application for bail, and i was outlining in the main that Bail *is* important because it’s tied to the presumption of innocence; erode the former *carelessly* and the latteris no longer a cornerstone of the justice system.

          1. Rob_G

            Thank you; I understand the difference between being held on remand and being convicted, and I didn’t make any reference to this. The point I was making was that our elected representatives shouldn’t be making representations on behalf of anyone accused of any offence, much less one as serious as terrorism charges.

          2. Rob_G

            anyway, he was pleading guilty, so your point about the accused’s (though now he has been convicted) application for bail is moot, as is Deputy O’Sullivan’s representations. He didn’t apply for bail.

          3. ivan

            In that case, you should have just said ‘why is she writing letters at all?’ and I wouldn’t have bothered responding., because you’re quite right.

            It’s parish pumpery in another guise.

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