Yearly Archives: 2013

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Auditors have found significant problems with how Waterford City Council has spent public money.

A report into the local authority’s expenditure said that proper procurement rules were not followed in 78% of deals examined.

This meant that €4.3m, out of €4.9m which was audited in 2010, did not meet requirements.

And In 40% of these cases contracts were awarded without a procurement process.

Council broke procurement rules in 78% of deals (Conor Ryan, Irish Examiner)

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The HSE’s draft report into the death of Savita Halappanavar says that difficulty in interpreting the law on abortion by the medical personnel at Galway University Hospital was a factor in the case, RTÉ News has learned.

 

Report finds difficulty interpreting the law a factor in Savita Halappanavar case (RTE)

Earlier: Unfinished Business

00136568Labour party leader Eamon Gilmore (centre) with, from left, Emmet Stagg, Kevin Humphreys and Ruairi Quinn.

 In return for one last spin on the merry-go-round for its ageing leadership, Labour would destroy itself….

..They’ve been ruthless in doing whatever it takes to keep the party on the road to its own doom: knifing Joan Burton, who was too embarrassingly right about the bank bailout to be given an economic ministry; losing the stalwart vote-getter, Willie Penrose; backing James Reilly’s clientilism over Róisín Shortall’s principles; painting the party’s chairman Colm Keaveney as a flaky traitor because he was loyal to the party’s stated policies. If voters needed examples of how to politically assassinate Labour politicians the party’s leadership has shown them the way.

Labour Leaders Keep Party On Road To Its Own Doom (Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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Sinead O’Connor’s 1992  Satruday Night Live pontiff-ripping.

Respectfully rendered By Mick Minogue for Is This Thing On #2 – a tribute to SNL art show in ‘Gallery 1988‘ in LA, which opened over the weekend.

Fair play though, in fairness

Sinead by Mick Minogue

Video by Al Hooi

Thanks Ciaran Le Cool