Monthly Archives: April 2011
“The news this morning that a former AIB bank executive received €3m remuneration in 2010 will be greeted by anger, frustration and disbelief by the Irish public. I share these feelings,” said Deputy Brian Lenihan.
Fianna Fail.ie (19 April, 2011)
AIB WAS directed by government officials, acting on behalf of then minister for finance Brian Lenihan, to pay Colm Doherty his contractual entitlements when it was told to dismiss him as managing director last September.
John Corrigan, chief executive of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), wrote to the board of the bank directing that it terminate Mr Doherty’s contract as a condition of the second bailout of the bank. In the letter, AIB was told to pay him what he was entitled to under his contract.
Mr Corrigan was writing on the direction of the minister.
(Irish Times, 21 April, 2011)
Which feelings would you like to share with Brian?
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And pronounced it to be ‘bland, uninspiring and a poor f**king choice of small-mammal based dessert.’
Producer, Screentime (The Apprentice, Dragon’s Den) ShinAwil sez:
The search is on to find Ireland’s first MasterChef!
Are you passionate about food and love to cook? Do you constantly impress your friends and family with your culinary skills? Are you an amateur cook with amazing talent?
Do you want to take part in Irish TV’s latest series-transplanted-shamelessly-from-British-TV-and-repackaged-with-the-word-‘Ireland’-in-the-title?
Do you thrill at the thought of Dylan McGrath sneering at your aspirational scran while the camera cuts unsubtly to your tearful, lentil roux-spattered face?
Then hurry! The application deadline is April 27th.
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Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, has designed a rollercoaster that will kill its riders with a series of carefully calibrated, sensitively sequenced brain-scrambling loops:
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in aeronautics, space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful.
