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Yearly Archives: 2013
Holding Fire
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President Obama in the Oval Office with Vice president Joe Biden on Saturday.
After a 45-minute walk Friday night, President Barack Obama made a fateful decision that none of his top national security advisers saw coming: To seek congressional authorisation before taking military action in Syria.
The stunning about-face after a week of U.S. saber rattling risked not only igniting a protracted congressional fight, which could end with a vote against strikes, but a backlash from allies in the Middle East who had warned the White House that inaction would embolden not only Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but his closest allies, Iran and Hezbollah.
At the Last Minute, Obama Alone Made Call to Seek Congressional Approval (Wall Street Journal)
Pic: White House
Dumb Show
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De Hedald
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The Priory Hall apartment complex, Dublin.
It’s not that Enda Kenny is an unkind man, it’s not that he doesn’t care. He sees the world differently – and unfortunate occurrences such as Priory Hall are not his business. The free market regulates these things, and in the market there are winners and losers.
When the banks collapsed in 2008, this column said that the next few years would see a fight over who picked up the tab. The establishment, here and in the EU bureaucracies, would do its best to bring about economic recovery. But there were conditions. It must be recovery without change. The social and economic hierarchies must be maintained, with all their statuses and privileges.
This corrupt, inefficient, dangerous set-up went to extraordinary lengths to indulge the greed of the few – and, as a result, destroyed itself. The aftermath needed an adversarial approach to the corruption, the recklessness, the ruthlessness. That wasn’t on anyone’s agenda. The same structure, the same people, prevailed. Capable of nothing else, the establishment has for six years now been trying to restore the system as it was. Any notions of justice, fairness or decency are dismissed as an unaffordable luxury.
One winner in ‘players v citizens’ battle (Gene Kerrigan, Sunday Independent)
Previously: Dear Enda
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
‘Sup?
Sorcha writes:
I know you don’t usually do this but my friend Cindy found a passport on the Harolds Cross bridge [Dublin 6] last night. I’m going to drop it in to the Navan road Garda station this afternoon..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMRylW0H-kM
What you may need to know
1. We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: movies smoovies, TV is where its at.
2. Cillian Murphy could be cashing in phoning it in as wild-eyed bad guys in Hollywood movies – instead, he’s gone and done a big epic BBC crime drama thing. That said, he’s in the next Chris Nolan flick – they’ve done five together.
3. Peaky Blinders is created by Steven Knight, who wrote Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and Eastern Promises (2007).
4. The great Sam Neill gets to channel his inner Nordy bloke – well, he was born in County Tyrone, hai.
5. Love/Hate legend Tom Vaughan Lawlor is in there somewhere, to boot.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Boardwalk Empire meets Brighton Rock (2010). We’re in.
Release Date: Next Thursday, BBC2
President Higgins arrives for the funeral mass For Seamus Heaney at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook, Dublin, within the last 30 minutes.
Via Chris Lindsay
Listowel man Danny Foley (above) awaits release from prison after a five-year sentence for sexually assaulting a young woman in 2008.
You may recall news reports at the time of how up to 50 supporters queued in single file to shake the offender’s hand in Tralee court.
The priest who gave a character witness for the convicted man, Father Sean Sheehy (top) maintains his belief in Foley’s innocence and reckons the jury delivered the wrong verdict.
He is reported as saying of the victim:
“I don’t want to make any judgment on her at all, but obviously the whole situation must have been embarrassing, for the police to happen upon them and what-not. She’s the mother of a young child as well and, you know, that in itself doesn’t look great.”
Fr Sheehy said Foley remains unrepentant and is planning to volunteer for the Samaritans on release having completed a course while in Arbour Hill.
Man in Listowel sex assault case due for release (Catherine Shanahan, Irish Examiner)
Pics: IrishCentral