Awkward government minister photo of the day: Leo Varadkar with Keith Duffy in a sailor hat and the Bugle Babesyfrog.com/octlvpdj
— Stephen Murphy (@SMurphyTV3) July 5, 2012
Monthly Archives: July 2012
The audition for The Swaras didn’t go so well.
Taken by JP Keating who sez:
It’s definitely not a nun [following last week’s German nun cover]. In fact, it’s an image from a series of nudes I am currently working on exploring the insecurities we all have.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My7hevrK6G8
Nothing to see here. Just an Arsenal fan calmly reacting (with some NSFW language) to Robin Van Persie’s decision not to renew his contract with Arsenal.
Thanks Brock Landers
Robert Carry writes:
Ulster Bank homepage
@9.20am [this morning]. The white box is where they had been putting updates on progress.
A full 7.2% less than he earned in 2010.
The chief executive receives double the annual salary of Taoiseach Enda Kenny and €151,000 more than President Michael D Higgins. He also earns more than most Irish semi-State bosses.
Mr Delaney’s remuneration has been the subject of much negative comment in recent times given the economic climate and the fact that the FAI receives about €3.4 million annually from the Irish Sports Council.
He has also come under scrutiny recently after video footage of him drinking with Irish fans in Poland at the Euro 2012 championship appeared on the internet.
Delaney Nets €400,000 As FAI Cuts Club Grants By €377,000 (Ciaran Hancock, Irish Times)
(Photocall Ireland)
Karen Margeret Ralph writes:
Taken just minutes ago in Dublin City Centre. Boys love their teddies…
Anyone?
From top: Terry Prone, Fr Kevin Reynolds and Tom Savage
On May 9, 2012, RTE board chairman Tom Savage, told Newstalk he did not learn of the controversy surrounding the Mission To Prey programme until September 2011 – three months after Fr Kevin Reynolds started to take legal action and four months after his own PR firm (The Communications Clinic) was apparently employed to deal with the fall out from the show’s findings.
He also told an Oireachtas Committee meeting: “(The RTE board) did not know until the evidence came that the first paternity test had shown that Fr Reynolds was not the parent. That was when we were informed. I was informed just in the lead-in to the September board meeting.”
Which makes this fairly stunning:
The assistance given to Fr Reynolds was not previously disclosed by Ms Prone, who only admitted aiding an umbrella group of Irish missionaries.
This initial disclosure prompted questions about her husband’s knowledge about the early stages of the Fr Reynolds affair. Ms Prone insisted she never discussed the Fr Kevin Reynolds issue with him.
But according to Fr Reynolds, Ms Prone — who runs the Communications Clinic with her husband — agreed to assist the priest with a statement days after the broadcast of the infamous ‘Prime Time Mission to Prey’ programme.
*thud*
Fr Reynolds says Prone Personally Helped Him Draft Response To RTE (Barry Duggan, Irish Independent)
Previously: Was The Communications Clinic Hired To Deal With Mission To Prey Before It Was Even Broadcast?
(Photocall ireland)
Yikes!
Anthony Fortune writes:
Are you looking for reasonably priced wigs/childcare facilities? Your search is over.
(To be fair the crèche is only renting the window to the wig company , you have to call to the laundry place next door to enquire about the wigs but you cannot try them on for hygiene reasons)