Monthly Archives: August 2012

MORE THAN €30 million has been paid out by the Department of Social Protection in rent deposits for social welfare recipients since 2006.

Although deposits are refundable at the end of a tenancy, none of the money has been returned to the department. It is not known if the money is being withheld by landlords or kept by the tenant after it has been handed back.

… of the €32.3 million paid to landlords in deposits in the last six years, the department said it has no record of any money being returned.

€30m of State’s rent deposits not returned (Olivia Kelly, Irish Times)

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“Maud Gonne, Gráinne Mhaol, Mary Robinson Máire Mhac an tSaoi..”

A delirious Seán Bán Breathnach caters to every constituency during his emotional  Raidió na Gaeltachta commentary on that fight.

Thanks Lars Biscuits

 

Via Karl E Pants.

Thanks Lars Biscuits

Arnott’s, Dublin, via Buzz O’Neil

Dundrum Shopping Centre, Co Dublin, via Piajade

“Watching on the big screen” in Hyde Park, London, via Paulie Roche

Connolly Station, Dublin, via Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland

My office desk – ‘Great day” via Aoife Somers

A field silage pit in Sligo via Annie West

The Maloneys (Katie Taylor’s neighbours) in Oldcourt Drive, Bray, Co Wicklow via Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland.

1700: Everyone here is on their feet. Irish flags are being waved furiously, frantically… “Ka-De! Ka-De!” For a brief moment there is silence as Taylor is sent spinning, videogame style by a slashing right, and then there’s more silence when Taylor falls to the floor. Both boxers on the attack now … it’s going to the judges.

 

1702: The crowd is apprehensive. They think Taylor has won, but they can’t be sure. There’s a wait … and then “Ladies and gentleman, the winner by a score of 10 points to 8, and Olympic champion … Katie. Pandemonium. Absolute pandemonium.

 

Take it away, Spands.

Via Sean Ingle at the Excel in London

Thanks Trevor O’Sullivan

(Getty/Reuters/RTE)