Rescued baby dormice at the Secret World Animal Rescue Centre in Somerset, found squeaking and motherless in a hedge last month. Founder Pauline Kidner sez:
They are being fed on honeysuckle, blackberries and chopped nuts and if their weight reaches 40g before winter, then we will release them back into the wild, but if not then we’ll look after them for release in the spring.
Seems about right.
European airlines will have to compensate passengers by up to €600 if their flights are delayed by over three hours following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice yesterday.
Europe’s highest court upheld a 2009 decision which ruled that passengers flying within the EU who suffer significant flight delays have the same rights to compensation as passengers whose flights are cancelled.
It will pave the way for passengers to claim millions in compensation. But consumer advocates said they did not anticipate airlines would make it easy for delayed people to claim.
Ryanair Flight Delay Indemnity Surcharge in 3….2…
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Zynga just laid off 100+ employees (incl. my friends) in its Austin office during the Apple Event. Gave them 2 hours to vacate. RT please.
— Justin Maxwell (@303) October 23, 2012
A case taken by former INM executive Karl Brophy (above) over his dismissal last April as the company’s corporate affairs director has been settled this evening.
Mr Brophy had claimed INM’s largest shareholder Denis O’Brien was behind his dismissal and claimed it was unlawful.
He said he was told his continued employment would be ‘problematic’ because of coverage about O’Brien and the Moriarty Tribunal at that time in INM titles.
He also alleged that he was told he was deemed to be too close to former CEO Gavin O’Reilly – who stepped down last April.
But this evening the case was struck out after the High Court heard the two parties had resolved their differences.
Mr Brophy said he accepted that, in relation to his dismissal, O’Brien had ‘no hand, act of part in that decision’.
However, before Ms Justice Mary Laffoy ended the hearing, the court heard evidence from the newly-appointed INM Chief Operating Officer Vincent Crowley – who took over from Gavin O’Reilly earlier this year.
RTE reports:
Mr Crowley told the court that for some time before his departure, Mr (Gavin) O’Reilly and Mr Brophy were working to try to back up Mr O’Reilly’s view that Mr O’Brien had significant non-performing borrowings with the former Anglo Irish Bank and he was therefore effectively funded by the Irish taxpayer (as Anglo had been nationalised).
The two men put a significant amount of time and effort, which was ultimately unsuccessful, into looking into this allegation so that it could be put into the public domain, Mr Crowley said.
Ultimately unsuccessful, eh?
So, do you know how much Denis owes Anglo?
Lines close at midnight.
Previously: Denis O’Brien, Dividends And Paying Back Anglo
Here’s my handle.
Here’s my spout.
Jennifer Bendery writes:
And… here’s a newly surfaced pic of Mitt Romney in high school mocking gay people.
Just back from the festival circuit.
The wonderful Pigeon Man
Keith Gordon writes:
filmed about a year and a half ago part of this ‘ Galway film fleadh. The Pigeon Man wished to remain anonymous as doing his job is still seen as taboo in Romania.
A. Poultry in general, do not recognise geo-political, demographic or religious differences.
90 jobs lost at poultry plant in Co Cavan (RTE)
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Youtuber RudiElias86 takes his fearless cat MJ for a bike ride around the streets of Philadelphia.
Music: Wildcat by Ratatat
