Yearly Archives: 2013

11/12/2013. CRC at PAC. Former CEO Paul Kiely foll[Paul Kiely, former chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic whose €200,000 pension pay off was revealed at the Public Accounts Committee meeting today followed by CRC chairman Jim Jim Nugent]

Chairman of the CRC Jim Nugent told the committee that  the organisation was contractually bound to pay salaries that were in excess of HSE levels. He said the CRC had presented these arrangements at a meeting in July 2009. David Martin, a director who was at that meeting with another former CEO, Des Peelo, said the HSE agreed that the CRC was to pay the shortfall to those with “legacy contracts”, who had been receiving pay in excess of HSE levels.

 

Former CRC Chief Executive received €200,000 pension payout (RTE)

Earlier: The Good Charities Guide

A Message To The Board

Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

rob1BbNnxLGCQAEqwMl-2{The East Link Bridge, Dublin, with bike pincher (arrowed) and Ben, above {in hat] following his successful pursuit}

They made hot Ben angry.

No one makes hot Ben angry.

Aleesha Tully writes:

Less than an hour ago, some charming lad in a white beanie decided it would be a smart move to lift someone’s bike from outside the @huskiesagency office in Portview House, Ringsend [Dublin]. Big mistake.

By the time he’d made it over the East Link bridge and stolen yet another bike, our very own hero Ben [in the office] was in pursuit.
We witnessed Ben chase this guy up the quays where they disappeared from view… there was a bit of a showdown, and less than one minute after Ben emerged victorious and plus one bike! He even managed to keep his Christmas Hat intact throughout the whole episode (we were just finishing up our Christmas lunch).
Unfortunately the guy made off with the second bike. These guys were organised and waiting with a van to dump the bikes into. Watch out for them around the area.

 

Fair play though, in fairness.

Update:

Michael O’Riordan adds:

The bike was owned by Diarmaid in our office,This is also Diarmaid’s last week with us – we sadly part company on Friday, so this would have been a real tragedy for him, and the return of his bike was greatly appreciated. The crazy thing, Diarmaid and Ben are almost lookalikes! We are desperately looking for a chance to get a photo of the two together – maybe your original poster will grab one…

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‘It’s still in the same green wrapper,
And it still looks the same shape;
But its no longer the Velvet Caramel,
It’s now the Coffee Escape’.

Niamho writes:

A little poem to warn everybody about the fresh hell that will lurk at the bottom of the tin of Roses this Christmas…..There is no escape, from the Coffee Rose.

 

Back to Quality Street so.

Context

9032379690323793They come here with their talent and manly swarthiness, they dress our ladyfolk, etc.

Cheese-eating fashion monkey god Roland Mouret at Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin this afternoon with models, top from left: Eve, Teo and Joanne, sporting his slinky French frockage.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)