Monthly Archives: June 2012

ESRI director Frances Ruane (pictured this morning) and social protection minister Joan Burton both insisted there was no political pressure on the body to withdraw the report.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny also said he would not stand over political involvement. “This is an independent organisation. I could not stand over, and I would not stand over, any contact from Government to an independent organisation to say you must withdraw or take down any particular documentation,” he said.

 

Sounds fair.

SF Demand Over Employment Report (irish Independent)

Yesterday: That ESRI Report…Now Withdrawn

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Alan Daly at Kantar Media writes:

“Our pitiful attempt at a tricolour.”

David Froggat writes:

First pic: Lower Mountpleasant Avenue in Rathmines, yesterday. second pic: Google Street view = no tricolour

 

Hilary Fitzgibbon writes:

“Our neighbour’s balcony in Playa Mogan, Gran Canaria.”

 

Brian Colhoun writes:

“My damn defiant hipster tricolour.”

 

Cathal O’Rourke writes:

Tesco, Prussia Street, Dublin, last night. Every little helps.

 

Maria Benson writes:

Defiant tricolour cupcakes. They didn’t rise very well though. Inspired by the snow cone cupcakes! I’ll make another batch if ireland win tomorrow.

Liza Finnegan writes:

Tricolour overload on my wedding day [September 24th last year]. it wasn’t planned by the way (the dress tricolour not the wedding!).

 

Simon Judge writes:

Daniel Johnston’s new tees.

 

EB writes:

I randomly pulled out these 3 gummy bears from a bag yesterday! :)

Eithne Sexton writes:

Accidental (but defiant) soup making tricolour

 

Defiant Tricolours to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

“We can find names of [those] Israelis [who support Palestinians]… we should hit their soft spot, publish their pictures, maybe it will embarrass their friends and relatives at home, and hopefully the local [Palestinian] activists will think that they work for the Mossad…

The acts of these activists are, I think, not ideologically motivated, but rather have to do with psychological reasons (disappointment with their parents or problems with their sexual identity) or due to their need to receive a residence permit (refugee visa) in one of the European countries…”

Nurit Tinari-Modai (above), deputy Israeli ambassador and wife of the current ambassador Boaz Modai.

Deputy To The ambassador in Ireland: The Pro-Palestinian Activists Are Motivated By Problems In Sexual Orientation (Moav Vardi, Channel 10 – translation)

(Thanks Mark Malone)

Alan-James Burns writes:

Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, was where the tricolor was first revealed to the nation. There is a plaque to tell you the story but no Tricolour. The plaque says the unveiling of the national flag took place in the music hall at this location on Lower Abbey street on 15th April 1858.

 

Waterford Update: