Monthly Archives: June 2012

“We’ve got our own drinking culture in New Zealand which we’re trying to sort out and if that’s a representation of what they do in their own country they’ve got big problems over there. I think they just have to understand .. if they’re in Rome do as the Romans do. We don’t drink to a point where we fall over so much in our country.”

Senior Sergeant Scott Banfield, head of Christchurch’s team policing unit

Police Disappointed With Drunk Rugby Fans (Stuff.co.nz)

Prompting this response from ‘The Irish in New Zealand’:

Irish In New Zealand (Facebook)

Thanks Eoin Darby and Edward Gash

Emily Rossiter

Back garden defiance, Iceland

 

Sorcha Crowley writes:

Defiant Tricolour about to be eaten in a Sushi bar in Dubai.

 

 

John Gallen writes:

My flat mate from Scotland creating ‘Key Lime Pie’… mid preparation… egg white, egg yoke and lime… there is more in the menu, he’s the chef on this one…. I just want to eat it :)

 

Paul Mahon writes:

Defiant Sky Sports news tricolour…

 

Peter McKenna writes:

The carefully arranged fruit and bread from the bakery beside my office in San Francisco.

 

 

 

Conor Moore writes:

Nice to see my back doors making the effort.

 

 

Andy Knightly writes;

The noisier younger child with the remnants of Friday night’s takeaway.

 

 

Gavin Duff writes:

Your defiant tricolour download is ready… (Not that I’m condoning illegal downloads…)

 

 

Daryl Feehely writes:

Vera Moda, Pavilion, Swords, Co Dublin, on Saturday.

 

 

James lloyd writes:

A particularly tasty dessert, scoffed yesterday afternoon in Hong Kong. The free-pour Champagne offer was clearly not designed with us Irish in mind…

 

Christopher Connaughton writes:

Squee defiance in a classroom in Saigon, Vietnam

 

Defiant Tricolours to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

 

 

“The Congress also occurs at a time when the Church throughout the world is preparing to celebrate the Year of Faith to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council…

…but it is equally clear that there have been many misunderstandings and irregularities. The renewal of external forms, desired by the Council Fathers, was intended to make it easier to enter into the inner depth of the mystery. Its true purpose was to lead people to a personal encounter with the Lord, present in the Eucharist, and thus with the living God, so that through this contact with Christ’s love, the love of his brothers and sisters for one another might also grow.

Yet not infrequently, the revision of liturgical forms has remained at an external level, and “active participation” has been confused with external activity. Hence much still remains to be done on the path of real liturgical renewal.”

 

Part of Pope Benedict’s address (via video) to the faithful at Croke Park, Dublin,  yesterday for the final mass of the Eucharistic Congress.

Anyone?

Full Text: Pope’s Address To Congress (Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

THE JUDGES of The Irish Times Best Place to Live in Ireland competition have narrowed their search to just five places which are in the running for the overall award.

They include one village, one small town, one large town, one city, and one suburb or urban village.

They are: Ardara, Co Donegal; Westport, Co Mayo; Killarney, Co Kerry; Cork city; and Rathmines in Dublin.

They’re announcing the winner next Monday.

Meanwhile, where do you and yours flourish currently?

‘Best place is where you and your family flourish’ (Irish Times)

In the course of the conversation [with then INM chairman James Osborne], he informed me that in April of this year Denis O’Brien, the major shareholder in INM, had called him up to get him to “pull” an article in this newspaper.
The article related to Denis O’Brien’s borrowings from Anglo Irish Bank. A spokesman for Denis O’Brien yesterday denied that this took place.
Osborne says he talked him down, telling him he was behaving like a “spoiled teenager”. To Osborne’s eternal credit, this was the first I knew of the alleged editorial interference.
The article was published under the heading ‘Anglo Irish’s Top 13 Buccaneer Borrowers’. It was fair to Denis O’Brien, making clear that he was one of those paying the bank back. O’Brien knew of it because we had contacted his spokesperson for a comment.

What matters, if Osborne is correct, is O’Brien’s response. Censorship was his instinctive response to something that he perceived would be critical and touching on his financial interests.

 

O’Brien – The Real Issue Is Press Freedom (Anne Harris, Sunday Independent)

Previously: Denis O’Brien’s Editorial Interference: The Smoking Gun?