Yearly Archives: 2013

rea1gemmatalbot(Stephen Rae, editor-in-chief of the Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and Evening Herald and, above, Gemma O’Doherty and a protest outside INM ,Talbot Street, Dublin following her sacking)

Penalty points were wiped after they were accrued by a car registered to an Independent News and Media editor.
Stephen Rae was involved in the decision to make leading journalist Gemma O’Doherty redundant in the weeks after she approached the Garda commissioner to check if he had penalty points removed from his licence.
A vehicle registered to Rae, editor-in-chief of the Irish Independent and other INM titles, accrued penalty points at 6.37am on November 5, 2009 at the N11, Belfield, Dublin before the points were terminated.

….Her forcing out has brought condemnation from journalists at top British and international publications but has so far been ignored by Ireland’s leading newspapers and RTE.

 

Wiped penalty points linked to editor involved in Gemma O’Doherty redundancy (Robert Mulhern, Irish Post)

Previously:
Did The Editor Have His Points Quashed?

Going Rogue

Dear Mr Rae

(Photocall Ireland)

gerry

Phil Watson writes:

My uncle Gerry McCann has gone missing in Dublin and I’m hoping you can give some coverage to it.

He was last sighted at St John of God Hospital, Stillorgan, Co Dublin on Thursday morning at 11am wearing brown shoes, brown trousers and grey wool top. He is 47, 5ft 9ins with short wavy light brown/grey hair.

If anyone has any information they can contact me on philippaulwatson@gmail.com. Thank you.

Northern beaches bushfires

 

Bushfires threaten Sydney’s northern beaches (Guardian)

Flamin’ whatnow?

Pic: AAP

 

size_comparison___science_fiction_spaceships_by_dirkloechel-d6lfgdf space3 space2wall-EAn exhaustively researched (currently in its fifth iteration with future updates including Dune and Mass Effect planned) fictional spaceship size comparison chart by German digital artist Dirk Loechel featuring craft of all descriptions from Star Wars, Warhammer, Babylon5, Star Trek, Wall-E, Serenity, Farscape, Silent Running, Independence Day, AvP, Battlestar Galactica and dozens more.

Link to gob-smackingly massive version here.

UPDATE: Still not sufficiently sated by the rocket-scaling above? Check out Jeff Russel’s Starship Dimensions – an entire site dedicated to this sort of thing.

io9 (H/T: JCDSR)