Monthly Archives: March 2013

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Wales Vs Ireland at the Racehorse Ground, Wrexham, 1906.

Nineteen – oh – six.

Parts of the match were filmed by the Blackburn company of Mitchell and Kenyon,and is now the oldest surviving footage of an international football match.

The final score was 4-4 helping to secure the wooden spoon for Ireland in the 1906 British ‘Home’ Championship.

We just couldn’t catch a break back then.

1905/6 British Home Championship (Wikipedia)

 

Unfortunately, we only caught the last few seconds, in which Mr Lowry told Seamus Martin he’d like to get hold of the tape to check its veracity, before adding:

“As far as I’m concerned all the inquiries and the investigations have been conducted. The report on the Moriarty Tribunal is two years old. It was published, it was put before the Dáil, the Government of the day. And the members of the Oireachtas sent that report to the relevant authorities. So any questions that are being asked, to be asked, in that regard would be dealt with by me, through the appropriate channels.”

Previously: The Thicks Plotten

He Can Only Be Found In Tipperary Star

Does That Not Concern You?

Rabbitte

Last night The Week In Politics followed up on a Sunday Business Post’ story in which it was revealed the banks plan to set quarterly targets for restructuring mortages, likely to involve 20,000 mortgages every quarter.

Reporter Brian Dowling said the latest Central Bank figures show there are almost 95,000 households in mortgage arrears for 90 days or more, with 23,000 of those in arrears for two years.

Economics Professor Gregory Connor, from Maynooth University, told the programme the repossession rate in Ireland, which saw 134 properties repossessed in the last three months of 2012, is just one twentieth of what it should be.

Pat Rabbitte (above) said: “The issue is coming to a head. The Government is likely to, perhaps it’s no longer a secret given it’s on the front page of the Sunday Business Post to publish a mortgage plan in coming days that will set out targets for the banks, because in the interest of getting the economy back to normal, we have to confront this issue. But the proposition that you’re going to have 95,000 people on the streets, put out on the streets, is complete, absolute nonsense.”

He said repossessions will be “inevitable” but only as “a final resort”.

Meanwhile, in the buy-to-let market the Irish Mail on Sunday yesterday reported that “a strict confidentiality agreement is being forced on buy-to-let mortgage holders” with AIB, (99.8% of which is owned by the State).

The report, by Ken Foxe and Warren Swords, stated: “The secret document obliges mortgage holders ‘not to disclose to any third party the fact that negotiations are taking place’ on restructuring the mortgage.”

Hmm.

(Pic: RTÉ)

Good-Vibrations-Quad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DruhJkZU4EI

What you may need to know:

1. Good Vibrations is a biopic of Belfast music legend Terri Hooley.

2. Hooley is played by Belfast man Richard Dormer, the greatest Irish actor you probably haven’t heard of; he rocked as Alex Higgins in one-man play Hurricane (he also wrote), is in the next series of Game Of Thrones, and has a new play, Drum Belly, on at the Abbey [Dublin] soon.

3. NB: Liam Cunningham in awesome wig @ ’45.

4. It’s produced by David Holmes, who also did the music.

5. We hear it’s the best Irish movie in YONKS.

Released: March 29th