Monthly Archives: September 2012

Up to four employees of the Socialist Party may lose their jobs as a result of the decision by Clare Daly TD to leave the party.

….the party’s one remaining TD Joe Higgins said he would be asking the relevant authorities to reduce his party leader’s allowance to reflect the fact that Ms Daly was no longer a member of the party.

Mr Higgins told The Irish Times the decision would have implications for the jobs of up to four party workers whose employment is funded by the money. In the immediate future the party would seek to cover the costs itself, through fund raising and subscriptions, he said.

Mr Higgins added that the €120,000 paid to the Socialist Party compared to some €4.5m paid to Fine Gael, €3.3million paid to Labour and some €2.6million paid to Fianna Fáil . 

Daly decision ‘has implications for jobs’ (Tim O’Brien, Irish Times)

Clare Daly denies exit from Socialist Party linked to Mick Wallace (RTE News)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Smyth, who has only 10 per cent vision because of an hereditary and degenerative eye condition – Stargardt Disease – was in a class of his own as he clocked 10.46sec on a warm, practically windless evening to successfully retain the T13 title he won in barely less emphatic fashion in Beijing.
On a night when Oscar Pistorius, the ‘Blade Runner’ himself, also took his bow, Smyth was in the mood to remind everyone that there are other shooting stars in the Paralympic firmament. At 25, running with a fluidity which is even the envy of his esteemed training partner Tyson Gay, Smyth brought the house down with his magnificent display.

 

Jason Smyth The Fastest Paralympic Runner of All-Time As He Sets New World Record To Win T13 100m gold (Ian Chadband, Telegraph)

Previously: The Fastest Paralympian On Earth Is Irish

Meanwhile, in the Aquatic Centre:

Darragh McDonald, 18, of the Asgard Club in Arklow, Co Wicklow after winning the 400 metres freestyle.

(Reuters)