Yearly Archives: 2013

gocarFurther to August’s clamp incident drama.

The charred remains of a GoCar vehicle (above) at the weekend [part of a Dublin-based start-up’s ‘car by the hour’ scheme].

Thieves broke into the car on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin.

But thanks to an “advanced mobilising system” the car wouldn’t start.

So they set fire to it.

Sez Colm Brady, GoCar MD:

“ The car is now completely written off and it has cost GoCar over €10,000. That is a bitter pill for any company to swallow.”

 

Previously: By The Hour

Thanks Mick O’Keefe

5/12/2012 Budget DaySenator Darragh O’Brien (left) and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

 

Where’s Winelake when you need him/her?

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile…

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Senator O’Brien and Cameron from Modern Family.

Uncanny.

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Nevan Riley writes:

My friend (singer-songwriter and Focus Ireland do-gooder) Cathy McGuinness has organised a benefit gig this Friday in Tengu Bar at Yamamuri Sushi on Lower Ormonde Quay [Dublin] from 8pm. The gig [ featuring bands, solo acts and ‘art performers’] will raise funds for Focus Ireland and go towards creating food parcels for families and children in need this year. A donation of €5 is suggested on the night….Anyone who can’t make it but would like to support this worthy cause can do so on MyCharity.ie.

 

 

 

Speaking to a committee of the European Parliament, Mr Draghi warned that the recent balance sheet review, carried out by the Central Bank here, “falls short” of the more stringent test that would be carried out ahead of the ECB assuming the role of overall banking supervisor next year.
He said the exercise carried out by the Central Bank was “not forward looking”.Responding to a question by the Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell, a member of the parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee, Mr Draghi also said the ECB had a “positive, but more cautious,” assessment of the budget for 2014.

 

 

Irish banks remain source of ‘some concern’ – Mario Draghi (RTE)

 

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Saturday December 21st: I Am The Cosmos, Terrierz, Elastic Witch DJs @ Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin (€10, 11pm )

Nialler9 writes:

Creators of my Irish album of the year (do vote for yours in the annual readers poll – ) play a rare live show. Their album Monochrome is top-class moody analogue synth-disco music inspired by a single song by ’80s Japanese band Mariah. Great poster too…

 

Nialler9’s Gig Guide December 16- 31 (Nialler9)

14/5/2012. Campaigns For Fiscal Stability Treaties Minister of State Brian Hayes (left) spoke on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight on Friday with presenter Ritula Shah.

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Ritula Shah: “There are a lot of people emigrating. A lot of people are voting with their feet and getting out and there is a question if austerity is to continue, you know how much more can people take?”

Brian Hayes: “Well, emigration has been a feature since our independence from Britain. In the last 12 months, yes, 80,000 people have left. But 50,000 people have come back. And of the 80,000 who have left, half of them were non-Irish nationals who were going back to third countries where they had come from originally in the European Union. There is a lot of churn within the population figures and I think what we need to do is to keep those people in Ireland because they’re going to be the social entrepeneurs, they’re going to be the business start-up people of the future.”

Right so.

Listen in full here.

Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

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Tokyo-based Instagrammer Shota Tsukamoto’s 3 year-old hedgehog Darcy (known to her many followers as @darcytheflyinghedgehog) and named after D’Arcy Wretzky the ‘pointy, edgy’ former bass player with the Smashing Pumpkins.

Pulls faces, fits in cups, wiggles footsies.

A children’s book is in the offing.

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