“I just talked to somebody very knowledgeable … [who] thinks that he’s in a villa, a nice comfortable villa,”

A villa in Pakistan. Not a cave.”

Christiane Amanpour, HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher.

If Chompsky could legally marry in this wretched, dog-hating country he would have asked for that lady’s hand a lot earlier than 2008.

Osama Bin Laden in a Pakistan Villa? Source Told Christiane Amanpour in 2008 (ABC News)

Kyle McMahon.

He was thrown out of school for being a ‘messer’.

He had a kid at 17.

He’s the Young Entrepreneur Of The Year!

Toymaker Wins Entrepreneur Award (Irish Times)

Property porn?

Moi?

Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy has denied that her paper compromised its standards with its property coverage during the boom.

Ms Kennedy, who has announced she will retire as editor of the newspaper this September, pointed out that the Irish Times had exposed false prices being quoted by estate agents advertising with it.

*Sigh*

Irish Times Defends Property Boom Coverage (RTE)

(Photocall Ireland)

Taken literally within the last 30 minutes.

Now, these guys partied.

Top left and right: Kenny with IDA CEO Barry O’Leary. Middle pic: traders James Maguire and George Folds of Barclays Capital. Bottom pic: Irish American trader Terence Toal

(James Higgins/Photocall Ireland)

That’s Ireland on the left.

You are the little red baby.

Le Cool Dublin

Cover art: Una Gildea

“Three cheers for the bus driver, the bus driver, the bus driver
Three cheers for the bus driver who drove us today”

They haven’t had this much fun since they went on a school tour to see Oliver Plunkett’s head.

A bright new era, with buses for all – even members of the Cabinet (Miriam Lord, Irish Times)