httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziWDjt68eP0
Ms Grumley said. She thought it was an automatic recording when the voice down the line asked if she would like $10,000. The phone dropped out after she swore and she had to check the TV to see if it was real
Via Bookfaked
Thanks Phil Jones
Thanks Paul C
(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
THIS is a diamond ring.
Unveiled at the Baselworld Watch and Jewellery Show, this 150 carat monster, valued at $70 million, was hewn from a single giant diamond by lasers by Shawish Jewellery of Geneva.
The ‘world’s first diamond ring’ design/concept is copyrighted. No buyer yet.
Advocate general of the European Court of Justice Yves Bot said yesterday that airlines were obliged to pay the costs incurred by passengers whose flights were disrupted by “extraordinary events” like the 2010 Icelandic volcano.
Ryanair had argued that such events were so extraordinary airlines should not be expected to pay the costs.
Caught out by the small print. Miss Morrissette, you’re on.
@broadsheet_ie MASSIVE savings in-store! Harvey Norman, Carrickmines this evening. twitter.com/FaganKev/statu…
— Kevin Fagan (@FaganKev) March 22, 2012
By Luke Fallon.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjLc5ZMqkvw
Sure, he’s hot.
But he’s no Bressie.
The locals seem happy.
Oh.
Except him.
Via Tom Gallagher
From a statement tonight by Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin via Politico.ie:
Although the central allegation against Bertie Ahern was not sustained, the evidence confirmed by the Tribunal and its comments relating to him are extremely serious. The receipt by a senior office holder of large amounts of money which a sworn Tribunal has held is of unclear origins and the failure to give any credible explanation requires an unequivocal response. No matter how high a member rises within the party and in elected office, they still carry a duty of trust for the members of Fianna Fáil and for the people who elected them.
The report records that Bertie Ahern gave a significant amount of evidence to the Tribunal which, in the opinion of the Tribunal, was untrue.
It is a matter of profound personal and professional regret to see confirmed in this Report the extent to which Bertie Ahern fell short of the standard of personal behaviour which is expected of the holders of high office. In the manner in which he received this money while holding high office and in the giving of rejected evidence to a sworn tribunal Bertie Ahern betrayed the trust placed in him by this country and this party.
I, together with the party’s officers with whom I have met and consulted, believe the conduct of Bertie Ahern as outlined in the evidence made public through the Tribunal and the findings of the Tribunal constitute conduct unbecoming a member of Fianna Fáil. Accordingly, I will propose a motion to expel him as a member of Fianna Fáil at the special meeting of National Executive. We are writing to Mr Ahern to inform him of this decision.
Cold.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
“After spending over a decade of inquiries and countless millions of euros, the Tribunal has not made – nor could it make – a finding to support the scurrilous and untrue allegation allegation that I had been given a corrupt payment by Mr Owen O’Callaghan (the Cork based developer of Quarryvale) or any of his companies. I have never received a corrupt payment and I have never done anything to demean any office I have held. I know that some people will feel that some aspects of my personal finances are unusual and that in retrospect it is obvious I was wrong not to have paid more
attention to my financial affairs and records. I hid nothing. I gave the Tribunal unfettered access to all my financial records, and after years of investigation, this Tribunal has not made any finding of corruption against me. I have told the truth
to this Tribunal, and I reject strongly any suggestion that I sought to mislead it”
Bertie Ahern, March 22, 2012.
Sounds fair enough.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
