Yearly Archives: 2013

90244252Scapegoat time!

Yay.

It said the repeated errors had been made by a “small team of about four economists” within the department, and said it “failed to predict the sharp economic downturn”.

Also:

“The 2012 exchequer deficit was consistently overestimated by the Department of Finance,” it said…the projection on Budget Day in December still overestimated the deficit by €0.8bn.

 

Anyone name names?

Bodger’s checking with Doheny and Nesbitt’s.

State watchdog savages Department of Finance over ‘failures’ (Independent.ie)

 

-3Forgive them, lord.

They gnome not what they do.

Pat Flanagan writes:

Spotted in the front garden of a bungalow on the road between Annagasin and Clougherhead, Co Louth [yesterday].

 

Also: Ornamental, replica-sized Squee and Sabina!?

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Labour TD Aodhan O Riordain has described the call from some in Fine Gael for a “sunset clause” to be included in the X Case Legislation as a “nonsense.”
“…Talk of floodgates is incredibly irresponsible. This is cowardice from legislators whose responsibility is to protect women’s lives and their constitutional rights,” he added.
The call has been backed by Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton [above with her husband, Fine Gael Senator John Bradford, a pro-life supporter, in 2011] who said it was constructive and sensible and should be considered by Cabinet.

 

Call for ‘sunset clause’ in abortion legislation (RTE)

(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU6L_4q2mcM

What you may need to know:

1. Less a trailer, more a teaser produced for last night’s MTV Movie Awards.

3. Who’s Zod? The brilliant Michael Shannon, from Take Shelter (2011), Bug (2006), The Runaways (2010) and Revolutionary Road (2008). Think Chris Walken’s creepier nephew.

4. Advance word on Man Of Steel suggests it’s the bad-ass Superman movie that the patchy (at best) Superman Returns (2006) really wasn’t.

5. Kneel before Zod.

Release Date: Summer