Laois County Council spent €4m on four parcels of land during the boom.
Where they planned to build public housing.
The money used to buy the land was borrowed from a state agency.
The debt has been written off and the council has now sold the land.
To another state agency.
For €4.
Somewhere in Laois a farmer is laughing his ass off.
€4 million Of Council Land Goes To Govt Agency For €4 (Leinster Express)
May, you say?
Thanks Wayne Fahy
Fianna Fail, the farmers and Fine Gael urge a ‘Yes’ vote in the EEC referendum 40 Years ago today (May 10, 1972).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_Kqs6AkpY
Members of the Machulla Dance Club and others launching the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity in Dublin yesterday.
And well they might dance. With their free travel and paid-up mortgages.
Damn replacement hipsters.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
No really.
It’s a genuine screengrab from a Fox Nation news story today on Obama’s support of gay marriage – since changed to read: “Obama flip flops on gay marriage.”
Too late.
Irish independent
Irish Times
In a word.
Contemptible.
From 1 July 2012, the European Union’s mobile roaming regulation will be extended to include price caps for data downloads which will mean significant savings for those using maps, email and social networks when travelling. For a typical businessperson travelling in the EU this will mean savings of over €1000 per year. A family taking an annual holiday in another EU country can expect to save at least €200.
Data roaming capped at 70c plus VAT per MB across Europe.
The EU.
It rocks.
Let me just put this in a personal context for a moment. All of my life I have watched gay people be passed over for promotion, be written out of wills, be un-invited to weddings, funerals and family gatherings. I have seen them insulted, spat at, physically attacked and treated like garbage. I have seen parents, brothers and sisters bait them, belittle them, physically injure them, or turn their backs on them, then throw them out of doors forever in Ireland, Europe and the United States.
And I have seen the brutal toll of all that shaming and rejection lead some of them to ruin. Some of the kindest, most beautiful souls I have known are dead now because of that daily avalanche of hatred and ignorance. And all because they loved the wrong person. Nothing is more shocking to me than that.
Earlier: Obama’s greatest Moment
The delightful Fuck You! table lamp by Milanese designer Andrea Maestri. A ‘domestic hallucination’ in aluminium, leather, studs, polycarbonate and plexiglass.
One of the few vaguely SFW pieces from his ‘self-produced collection of provocative, symbolic and oneiric furniture’
