Monthly Archives: September 2011

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte blamed the “terms of IMF/EU bailout” for the ESB stake sale. (RTE)

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn blamed the “terms of the IMF/EU bailout” for the Special Needs Assistance (SNA) cuts (RTE Primetime)

Justice Minister Alan Shatter blamed the “terms of the IMF/EU bailout” for the number of Garda stations closing/positions to be axed. (Irish Examiner)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny blamed the “terms of the IMF/EU bailout” for a possible rise in income tax next year. (Irish Times).

Are you detecting a pattern?

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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As the US military’s discriminatory ‘Dont Ask Don’t Tell’ law is finally officially repealed, one US soldier decides the time is right to have a chat with his dad. (Starts @ 2.15)

It’s official: `Don’t ask don’t tell’ is history (Washington Post Blog)

Meanwhile:

When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state is in the Eastern time zone.

That way, the two men were able to recite their vows before family and friends at the first possible moment after the formal repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Just after midnight Tuesday, the partners of 11 years were married.

Navy Officer Weds Partner as Gay Ban Ends (CBS News)

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Dublin is number 9 in a list of the top bike-friendly cities in the world in a poll conducted by Urban planning consultancy, Copenhagenize,

Dublin’s inclusion is due to “a wildly successful bike share programme, visionary politicians who implemented bike lanes and 30 km/h zones, and a citizenry who have merely shrugged and gotten on with it,” says Copenhagenize.

The consultancy warns, however, that there needs to be “further intense infrastructure implementation to return Dublin to the heady days of [the] last century,” adding, “The new cycle track along the canal is brilliant, but now Dublin needs to find the funds for more.”

 

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Using materials that would equally be at home amongst idyllic model train sets, artist Thomas Doyle builds incredibly intricate mixed media dioramas that instead suggest something much darker. The sense of loss and a brooding darkness is present in almost every piece, where homes dangle on sheer cliffs, or are surrounded by apocalyptic waste. The pieces above, entitled The Barrage Lifts, and Firing for Effect, are from his ‘Distillation’ series.

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