Monthly Archives: July 2012

Punish everyone for non-payment.

A protest was held outside Donegal County Council offices by Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay campaigners today as Environment Minister Phil Hogan slashed €4M from the council’s budget.
The cut reflects the failure of thousands of people to pay the Household Charge.
Councillors were told there has been a large increase in the number of people paying the €100 tax – with 47% of people now having settled the bill.
That leaves just over half the householders in the county – 53% – who haven’t paid.
The Department of Environment letter to the council and its councillors says that if more people pay up, more funding will be released.

 

Hogan Slashes €4 Million From Council Budget Over Household Tax (DonegalDaily)

Keira, of Cork Body Painting writes:

On Saturday [at the Camden Palace Hotel, Cork] we attempted to beat the World Record of most bodies painted, the record is currently 264 and we had 316 people there! All we need now is to get the Guinness World Record to sign off and Ireland will be the new record holders!

 

Cork Body Painting Guinness World Record (Facebook)

(Pics: Virginia Thomas and Julien Bailey)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8pHGqe6hww

What you may need to know:

1. While the debate about Irish cinema rages on (and on, and on) we present the new film by Pat Collins. He’s from Cork.

2. Collins is a documentary filmmaker of note, and a prolific, award-winning one at that.

3. Silence is his first fiction feature. If you think the trailer’s a bit slow, that’s OK. It’s meant to be.

Release Date: Out Now

 

 

I didn’t think it was possible for NBC to disgrace itself more than it did by deciding not to show the tribute. But they did so in spades with this explanation. Can you imagine the BBC opting to cut out a tribute to 9-11 at a future Olympics held in the States because it wasn’t “tailored for a UK audience”? If that happened, suffice to say the switchboards at BBC Broadcasting House would have blown a fuse.
I’d already given some thought to not watching the Olympics after NBC’s epic fail. But this explanation clinches it.

 

NBC: We Skipped Terror Tribute Because It Wasn’t “Tailored For The U.S. Audience” (Daily Kos)”