Our techie whistleblower responds to RTE’s clarification of the missing Lenihan interview:

“This audio was available through the typical channel (the podcast) post broadcast, the linking is “automated” and since the failure of this functionality is classified as a “rare” event, deviation from this process is the germane issue and should be investigated.

Two mutually exclusive causes are proffered; a clerical error (which I am assuming is the accidental deletion of the available audio by a keystroke or click) or a systematic failure of an automated system, whereby the digital file is not migrated to the archive system.

Which was it?

Also, the ‘reconstructed link‘ to the real-audio stream was somehow temporarily blocked and is now re-instated. How did this happen, was it sanctioned and if so for what reason?

So maybe RTE could clarify the following:

• Precisely why the “reconstructed link” was working on 14-06-2011 and not working on 15-06-2011 and is now reinstated.
• Why the automated audio archiving process failed in this instance
• With the exception of legal exposure, under what circumstances are archiving procedures circumvented and what are the authorisation procedures in these instances?
• What processes do RTE management have in place to identify obfuscation of audio/video records hosted on the organisation’s infrastructure?

Finally, we would like to take you [RTE] up on your offer of the ‘technical log’.

We would like to see the log and hear an explanation of how precisely this log unequivocally substantiates RTE’s defence and a confirmation that the logs and clarification have been signed off by the relevant technical authority.”

To be continued…

The Ah Now Post

Thanks Brian Sammon

This just in.

From last night’s ‘Tonight It’s Miller Time’ summer party at Krystle nightclub for the Evening Herald/The Dubliner sponsored by Miller Genuine Draft.

Bodger is compiling the names. There’s several hyphens.

More as we get it.

NO, ROSANNA!.

Only frogs and rich dudes, we’re afraid.

Still. This is no ordinary cow.

Princess is a pedigree Holstein Friesian and is literally taking part in a beauty pageant at the Baileys Cow Competition in Cavan on July 30. According to the wonderful, virtually sweat-stained press release:

“Black & white Holstein Friesian cows are a familiar sight the length and breadth of Ireland but what will set these beauties apart will be nice legs, shapely udders and great bone structure, overall a ‘body perfect’, the ultimate mark of a true, pedigree bovine beauty queen.

Quite.

Meanwhile Rosanna is a pedigree De Burghian Frisson and has surely made enough money this month to not have to apply blusher to celebrity livestock?

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Soz.

The ‘Ah now’ post

UPDATE here

That’s right. Brendan Behan.