Monthly Archives: February 2012

But enough about the knee.

What about his poetry?

Professor Kevin Kiely (above) says that the President’s latest book is “lame, stale and stilted”, that it is “bland, imprecise and ultimately incomprehensible” and that it’s so bad that Michael D Higgins “can be accused of crimes against literature”.

Prof Kiely, a respected academic, even accuses Mr Higgins of stealing Scarlett O’Hara’s closing line in the movie ‘Gone with the Wind’ — “And tomorrow is another day” — in the poem ‘The Ebbing Tide’.

 

Critic Says President’s Poems Crime A ‘Crime Against Literature’ (John Spain, Irish Independent

Michael D Higgins Is No Poet (Carol Rumens, Guardian, November 1, 2011)

 

 

 

4th November 2008

The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the loss of a USB computer memory device which contained the personal details of over 800 Bank of Ireland customers. However, the bank said the customer details were stored on an unencrypted memory device, going against the bank’s policies and procedures, and that a full internal investigation is underway.

17th June 2009

A laptop computer containing bank account details of 75,000 Bord Gáis customers has been stolen in Dublin. The computer was not encrypted.

1oth February, 2012

Eircom has revealed that the personal details of 6,845 eMobile and Meteor customers and 686 Meteor staff were contained on three of its laptops that were stolen.The bank account details of 550 customers may also be at risk. Although Eircom has an encryption policy for its laptops, it is understood none of the three stolen were encrypted.

 

Earlier: Oh

Nama Wine Lake has combed over Nama chief Frank Daly’s speech yesterday for clues as to what is happening at the (state-owned) largest property company in the world.

Nuggets include:

(1) From March 2010 to date, NAMA has made 6,000 credit decisions. That’s an average of 60 per week or 12 per working day. And each decision is made within an average of six days.

(2) NAMA has “agreed” more than 600 developer business plans representing 95% of the Agency’s total loans, by value.

3)NAMA has approved advances to developers of nearly €1bn. Now this isn’t news but separately NAMA says that developers are expected to grant charges over €500m of unencumbered assets, and to date developers have granted charges over €221m of unencumbered assets. NAMA is not saying if these two facts are connected…Separately NAMA says that it has reversed €160m of spousal transfers.

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More here: NAMA Is Making 12 Credit Decisions Every Working Day – Chairman Provides Update on Agency’s Progression (Nama Wine Lake)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

 

 

Above: Sesame Street’s Big Bird, Caroll Spinney (1969 – Present); Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew (1977, 1980, 1983, 2005); ALF, Michu Meszaros (1986-1990); Barney, David Joyner (1992-2000); the original Alien xenomorph, Bolaji Badejo (1979) and KW from Where the Wild Things Are, Alice Parkinson (2009).

Exposed: The Actors Inside Famous Costumes (Flavorwire)