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Monthly Archives: September 2011
All the rage in the Italian Quarter.
Mick Wallace on Kildare Street earlier.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Thanks to Frilly Keane for headline change
Irish Nationwide’s Michael Fingleton.
He even got to keep the watch.
But how?
An employment appeals tribunal today hinted at a possible reason.
Ms [Olivia] Greene was employed as home loan supervisor managing lending to residential and commercial customers from 2000-2008.
She told the tribunal that there were different lending rules for different sets of borrowers.
There was certain criteria for the general public, and a different set of criteria for people in certain social circles – including members of the government, media and close friends.
Ms Greene alleged that he would give those people what they wanted.
Asked whether there were any rules for the repayment of loans, Ms Greene said Irish Nationwide carried out its business as a personal bank for Mr Fingleton, and that he had made all decisions.
She said he made up his own rules as he went along.
She said clients in his social circle got special treatment that maybe no-one else would know about.
Members of the government? Media? Really?
Sadly, Mr Fingleton is currently out of the country.
The tribunal’s chairman said Mr Fingleton had said he was not available to attend today’s resumed hearing as he was “in court in another country”.
Fingleton Ran INBS like A ‘Personal Bank’ (RTE)
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(Thanks iPaddy)
Double Happiness – a billboard swing for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture by French-Portuguese artist/architect Didier Faustino who sez:
Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.
Whatever.
We want a go.
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The Moving Crib in St. Martin’s, Parnell Square captured by photographer Mary Furlong.
It’s only missing a hippo.
Miss Mary Furlong website
A man dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, officials said Wednesday.
The man was questioned but not arrested Tuesday in what a Los Angeles Police Department official described as a “brief incident with two females.” No other details were available.
LAPD detains man in SpongeBob SquarePants outfit (LA Times Blog)
On Monday Heidi (right) gave birth to a fit and healthy 30kg female hippo calf (left). This is the first hippo calf to be born at Dublin Zoo in 10 years.
Yes, but how happy?
This happy:
Sez African Plains team-leader Helen Clarke-Bennett:
“Mum Heidi is taking to motherhood very well. Before she goes for her daily nap in the pool she lifts the baby out of the water and places the young calf onto the water bank.
Then she props the baby onto her nose to make sure the youngster doesn’t fall into the pool while she is sleeping. It’s a joy to see Heidi taking good care of her young calf.”
Name the hippo calf (based on her African origins) here.
(Patrick Bolger)
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Outside Leinster House within the last hour. David Norris has decided to resume his campaign to get on to the presidential ballot.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Taken literally just before lunch.
Models Maitlyn Simmons and Lian Schreuder launch the Hunky Dory calendar.
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(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
