24 hours before Ireland pays €1,250m to Anglo bondholders who have no specific security + are not covered by Sep 08 guarantee #notourdebt
— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) January 24, 2012
Monthly Archives: January 2012
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v954WVzDfMg&feature=player_embedded
Dromid and Derrytresk.
Where are the Black and Tans when you need them?.
Fear Gripped Dromid Fans (Irish Examiner)
Via Terry Reilly @Terreilly
Well.
A little.
Lobbyists who fail to register their activities could be fined €30,000 and jailed for two years under proposed legislation to be published by Fianna Fáil today.
The party said the lobbyists Bill would level the playing field for all stakeholders in public life by ensuring information about lobbying is made publicly available and updated regularly.
Environment spokesman Niall Collins said regulation of lobbyists was urgently needed in advance of the proposed sale of State assets, as this was a process that was likely to involve intensive lobbying by interested parties.
Fianna Fáil said its legislation was underpinned by principles of free and open access to Government and a recognition that lobbying was a legitimate activity.
“There should also be a strong level of transparency on what organisations and individuals are involved in attempting to influence public policy.”
Lobbyists Must Register Under Bill (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)
(Frank Dunlop and Bertia Ahern by Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
The Northern Lights at Malin Head, Donegal, on Saturday night at 10.30pm.
Wow.
Thanks Fat Frog
In a hard-hitting speech delivered at the opening of a new Holocaust exhibition in Dublin last night, Justice Minister Alan Shatter said the Irish State lost its “moral compass” during and after the war.
“In the period following Hitler coming to power and preceding the Second World War, the doors of this state were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to escape from persecution and death,” he said.
Records unearthed by the Minister from the Department of Foreign Affairs while he was researching the period many years ago show that the then Irish Ambassador to Germany, Charles Bewley (above), recommended the Government refuse visa requests from Jews to protect Ireland from “contamination”.
“In understanding the Holocaust and maintaining its memory…we should not forget or ignore the failures of this State and this State’s responsibilities for such failures,” he [Alan Shatter] warned.
Mr Shatter said this has consequences today for how we treat Israel.
“We should not be in denial nor should we ignore that the conduct of our State, at that time, in the eyes of some, delimits Ireland’s moral authority and credibility when today we seek to lecture later generations of those whose families survived the Holocaust on the conduct of their affairs in Israel,” he added.
State ‘Did Nothing For Jews In WWII’ (Breda Heffernan, Irish Independent)
Incredible footage from BBC’s Earthflight series featuring common cranes trained to fly alongside a microlight.
Earthflight uses many different filming techniques to create the experience of flying with birds as they reveal some of the greatest natural and man-made monuments of the planet.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NpL4PZdWT0&feature=related
Cringe-inducing middle class road rage in Bath, England, involving an Irish-sounding businesswomen blocking the road with her Audi.
From You Tuber Roadragebath:
The video originally posted by a resident of Bath went viral after the Bath Chronicle featured it on their front page – the original user has since removed their video (possibly for fear of reprisals), but the abusive/offensive woman ) and her husband need to learn that they cannot interact with people in the way that they did in this video.
Longer version here