Somewhat gingerly.

Huffington Post UK

Blair Joins Huffington Post UK As Unpaid Blogger (Telegraph)

Well, this must be good…

Mirror: “Do you enjoy having kids?”

Michael O’leary: “No, I enjoy having sex.”

Mirror: “Do you like The Apprentice?”

MOL: “Yes, it’s good. We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. If you’re going to watch television, it’s better than Big Brother.”

Mirror: “But one of your cabin crew, Brian Dowling, was a contestant on Big Brother.”

MOL: “We milked it for all it was worth but what does it do for mankind? Nothing.”

Mirror: “You’ve got a reputation for only wearing jeans, a shirt and trainers.”

MOL: “It was intentional at first but I’m a bit of a (Jeremy) Clarkson now, an old b****** in faded denim. Our rule is wear whatever you like and if you’re a female and you wear a short skirt, so much the better. We don’t have a uniform code for pilots but it’s very strict for cabin crew.”

Mirror: “Could pilots turn up in jeans?”

MOL: “No problem, I don’t care.”

GH: “Ryanair has published calendars full of scantily clad cabin crew. Are looks important when you hire stewardesses?”

MOL: “It’s a combination of looks, personality and people who want to work hard. If you arrive here and you’re a great-looking girl but thick as a brick, you won’t get the job. Not all of our cabin crew are calendar models, they’re not all size eights or 10s. I’m sure that there are some size 16s, although I would hope not too many.”

Oh.

Ryanair Chief On Business Fortune And Family (Graham Hiscott, Daily Mirror)

(Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVrK38xI-A

Dennis Potter’s morbidly hilarious thoughts on Rupert Murdoch, in an interview conducted just prior to the playwright’s death in 1994.

Dennis Potter?

Thanks Peter Stafford

Context

Marian Finucane is the only one of RTÉ’s top radio presenters taking an extended break over the summer, according to figures provided by the broadcaster yesterday.

Finucane is taking nine weeks off, from last Saturday until September 3rd, despite only having a four-hour broadcasting week.

Finucane earned €570,000 in 2008, the last year figures were available, making her at that time RTÉ’s third top paid presenter.

Marian Only RTÉ Presenter On Extended Summer Break (Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times)

(RTE)

Metro Herald

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJHP-zQAuA

Hugh Grant on the hacking scandal.

Revenge is a dish best served in a halting, upper-class British accent.