Monthly Archives: August 2010

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She’s got a way about her. We don’t know what it is. But we know that we can’t live without her. She’s got a smile that heals us. We don’t know what it is. But we have to laugh when she reveals us.

TV3 may not want her. But there’s always a home at Broadsheet for Lorraine. Once we get our telly station up and running.
 Furious TV3 Will Never Work With Lorraine Again (Ken Sweeney, Irish Independent)

(Photocall Ireland)

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Maureen O’Hara is 90 today.

Put aside ten minutes, pour yourself a long glass of buttermilk and enjoy the fight scene from ‘The Quiet Man’. When men and women could beat the crap out of each other without the ‘social’ getting involved.

Nationwide meets Maureen O’Hara on the eve of her 90th birthday

We’re going on Coleman at Large with the economist Marc Coleman (that’s him on the right with Richard Bruton and Random Geezer) at 10pm or so. We’re on to talk about “new media trends”.

Instead we intend asking Marc about the book he wrote in 2007 called ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’. Specifically we want to know if by best he meant the shitstorm of bad stuff that has engulfed every man woman and child in the country?

We’re also bringing in our guitar.

This just in:

The Emerald Isle’s national debt officials have pulled off an impressive performance Tuesday, selling €1.5 billion of bonds in a sale that was closely watched for signs of trouble given resurfacing worries about financial problems in the euro zone.
In a sign of the confidence investors still have in Ireland, the country sold €500 million of bonds maturing in 2014, paying an average interest rate of 3.627%. The size of investor demand was more than five times the amount of new bonds on offer.

Irish Bond Sale Cheers Market (Wall Street Journal Blog)

Confetti. Limerick-style.

“GARDAI were forced to police a wedding at the weekend after onlookers began to throw rocks and eggs at the newlyweds…Gardai confirmed they increased their presence after crowds began to form outside the church where “tensions had escalated”, but denied 40 members of the force were required.”

Onlookers Threw Rocks And Eggs At Newlyweds (Irish Independent)