“OK, I’ll take the first question from Phantom 105.2 FM. And then Nova.”
Government Wins Finance Bill Deal (Breaking News)
Lenihan Meets Opposition Over Finance Bill (Irish Times)
Monthly Archives: January 2011
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Bad celebrities. Naughty celebrities.
Frank Sinatra (adultery and seduction [they used to be crimes, you know], 1938), Snoop Dogg (possession of a collapsible baton, 2006), Macauley Culkin (marijuana possession, 2004), David Crosby (drug and gun possession, 1982), Jane Fonda (assaulting a police officer, 1970), Lindsay Lohan (DUI, drug possession, 2007), Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson (dealing, possession of cocaine, heroin, 1994), Dudley Moore (domestic violence, 1994), David Bowie (felony pot possession, 1976), Dennis Hopper (reckless driving 1975), Jay-Z (alleged stabbing of record exec, 1999), Johnny Cash (possession of pills and tranquilizers, 1965), Keefer Sutherland, (misdemeanour assault, 2009), Jim Morrison (indecent exposure, 1970), Larry King (grand larceny, 1971), Li’l Wayne (felony drug possession, 2008), Matt Dillon (speeding, 2009), Keanu Reeves (DUI, 1993), Heather Locklear (hit and run, 2010), Jimi Hendrix (possession of heroin and hashish, 1969), Mel Gibson (DUI, 2006), Nick Nolte (DUI, 2002), OJ Simpson (murder, 1994), Ozzy Osbourne (public intoxication, 1984), Mickey Rourke (DUI, 2007), Vince Vaughn (fighting in public, 2001), Sam Shepard (DUI, 2009), Steve McQueen (DUI, 1972), Steve-O (indecent exposure, 2002), Tupac Shakur (felony sexual abuse of a female fan, 1995), Mike Tyson (misdemeanour criminal damage, 2004), Woody Harrelson (disturbing the peace, 1982).
Key sources: MugshotPictures, Haven Video
Taken literally within the last hour and a half at Buswell’s Hotel in Dublin.
MEP Joe Higgins, fresh from his cage fight with José Barosso, is flanked by Cllr Gino Kelly, of People Before Profit, and Cllr Clare Daly, of The Socialist Party. All will be standing under the United Left Alliance banner for the General Election. The logo suggests ULA want to appeal to the floating voter, who may have found red too reminiscent of extreme, far left-wing ideology.
But hang on, what’s this?
That looks a little familiar:
(Photocall Ireland) (Hulton)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOb4s3ETUQc&feature=player_embedded
Previously: VIDEO: Jim Corr And Lord ‘Withdraw’ Haw Haw in HD!
From today’s FT:
“Brian Cowen, the prime minister, was forced into calling early elections on Thursday, to resign as party leader on Saturday, all after winning a confidence vote from his parliamentary party on Tuesday. His discredited leadership had been challenged after undisclosed meetings with Sean FitzPatrick, the banker at the heart of the financial crisis, came to light. What followed was utterly cynical.
Six members of the cabinet resigned and Mr Cowen tried to give an electoral leg-up to lesser-known Fianna Fáil MPs with scattergun offers of ministerial portfolios. This reshuffle – and eventually the government itself – was scuttled by the party’s Green coalition partners, leaving Fianna Fáil in meltdown and mutiny.
These factional antics, as Ireland faces arguably the worst crisis in its history as an independent nation, could turn the expected Fianna Fáil rout at the polls into electoral annihilation.
That may be richly deserved. This is, after all, the party that through its cronyism and incompetence artificially prolonged the boom of the 1990s into the credit and property bubble of the past decade, and then gave a blanket guarantee to its banker friends that has ended in the humiliation of Ireland becoming a ward of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”
Well, that’s us told.
Discussion on Politics.ie
No FT link as it operates paywall.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbAtklU87-E&feature=player_embedded#!
The export-led economy. The Dope’s Children.
David Monahan’s stark study of young Irish emigrants photographed on the eve of their departure from Ireland stands as a visual indictment of a country that has completely lost its way. It caught the attention of CBS News this weekend.
David’s Blog
David’s Website
She’ll Come To This Country From The University of Brisbane, Almost 50 years From Now. We’ll call her Angela…(Gene Kerrigan, Sunday Independent)
Irish Emigrants Deserve A Vote (Guardian Blog)
Music: ‘AF607105’ by Charlotte Gainsbourg
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3leH1xaqlSE
I’d rather see Aaron Eckart battle aliens in LA than wrestle with the alien-headed Nicole Kidman in some manner of angsty, middle-aged drama thing.
Release Date (Ireland): February 4.
Who? Susanne Morrison, a photographer with The County Down Outlook, a newspaper owned by former Unionist MP, John Taylor.
Her crime? Posted on her Facebook page that she was “sick of hearing” about Michaela Harte. Said her murder was “karma” and “what comes around goes around.” She added: “Thousands of people die terrible deaths every day through diseases and whatever so what makes her so special.”
Any clues to why she would say such a thing? None, although she does describe one of her ‘activities’ as “being Protestant”.
Oh. And her ‘interests’ include “Waking up on July 12th and realising you are God’s chosen race”.
Right. Thanks.
Never mind, Susanne, you can always get a job with Le Matinal.