Monthly Archives: May 2012

Justice Kevin Feeney (above) of the Referendum Commission was on RTE R1’s Morning ireland earlier with Cathal Mac Coille conducting the second part of a pre-recorded Q&A about the fiscal treaty.

It offered this intriguing exchange.

Cathal Mac Coille: “Just before we move on from the ESM. Philip McCardle asks ‘The funds from the ESM. Will they be used to bailout European banks?”

Kevin Feeney: “The purpose of the ESM fund is, the aim of the ESM is to try and ensure the financial stability of the Euro area so it is the governors of the ESM, or the ministers of finance of the countries that ratify it, that they will decide how the funds are used. It is inevitable, or all but inevitable, that part of the stability of the Euro area is interlinked with the stability of the banks within the Euro.”

Hmm.

Listen here

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGfrAzs5rms

Five things you need to know:

1. Barbaric Genius is a documentary about London-Irish author, chessmaster and troubled soul John Healy, author of The Grass Arena, a seminal autobiography that you need to track down immediately. Now, that’s what we call a summer read.

2. Venerable thespian Mark Rylance played Healy in the BBC version of The Grass Arena.

3. A truncated take on Barbaric Genius ran on RTE a few months back – this is the feature length version. It’s better. In fact, it’s the best Irish documentary of 2012.

4. Director Paul Duane previously directed a short film, My Dinner With Oswald, written by controversial Irish Times film critic Donald Clarke. Watch it here:

5. Barbaric Genius opens at the IFI Dublin today.

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