Monthly Archives: July 2011

Irish Times letters

 

 

Dear Angela,

I am under the age of 50 and it has always baffled me and my friends why so few people raised the alarm about child abuse in Ireland. Some, including journalists working on papers at that time, plead ignorance.

But if you (and presumably the aunties on all the other papers) were hearing of allegations of the “agony” going on in schools and families and whatnot did you not pass these on to the guards or, at the very least, your own paper’s news desk?

Also, can you love the same person twice?

Thank you,

Bodger

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Witness to the Oslo bombing, New Zealand sales rep Cameron Leslie gives his muscular perspective on the horrific events of July 22nd.

“Secondly, also for the fact that when the blast went off I was on the eighth repetition of a 165-KG bench press, uh, you know, that’s quite a lot of weight.”

“…we heard an announcement over the speaker phone to evacuate the area as quickly as possible, people started leaving, uh, naturally I finished my sets and then quickly made my way to the second level.”

In short: it was heavy, but he handled it.

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Why do these famous horse bajillionaires own care homes for the elderly?

Because they can charge £3,500 a week for every senior citizen in the care homes’ “care”.

Look, you don’t get to wear a top hat in the Royal enclosure at Ascot without diversifying.

Scandal Of Abuse At Irish Tycoons’ Care Homes (Independent UK)

(Desmond O’Neill)

 

Webmaster and trailer king Karl celebrated Broadsheet’s first birthday yesterday by taking a long hard look at our statistics during the last 12 months and posting his thoughts on his own tech-centred blog.

This is Karl on the most popular browsers used to access Broadsheet.ie:

Firefox rules the roost, with 29.98% of the browser share.  IE follows with 24.70% but Chrome is snapping at its heels with 23%.  Safari lags behind with 15.74% (which would include both desktop and mobile versions).

8.72% of all visitors still came via IE6.  The only glimmer of hope is that this month it’s fallen to 7.88%.  One day, it will be ground into the dust and be forgotten about like a bad dream.  But that day is not today.

Ledge.

A Year In The Broadsheet (Karl Monaghan’s Blog)

Alternative Broadsheet logos via Big Mental Disease

“In the excellent film ‘Senna’, the documentary currently showing in cinemas on the life of the Brazilian racing driver, there is a scene where suddenly a new racing car comes on the circuit that starts winning everything.

Senna, like all the racing drivers, becomes obsessed and wants the same technology as this car so he too can burn up the track.

“The scene could be a metaphor for what happened in Irish banking. Everybody, or most at least, in Irish banking sought to ‘out-Anglo’ and the carnage at the end has not, metaphorically, been much different to what happens at the end of the Senna documentary.”

Executive chairman of Allied Irish Banks, David Hodgkinson, at the MacGill Summer School yesterday.

Ayrton Senna: A phenomenally gifted driver who drew millions of new fans to Formula One. Considered a saint in his native Brazil he fought with officials throughout his career for tougher safety measures on Grand Prix circuits.

AIB: Regulation-free, bonus-crazed “faintly dim rugby players” turn profitable, 200-year-old conservative lender into cash-starved, state-funded zombie.

Metaphor sturdiness: poor

Senna And AIB’s Drive For Success (Deaglan De Breadun, Irish Times)