Monthly Archives: May 2013

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Elaine Byrne has some of her own points to raise with the Justice Mininster:

1. The Taoiseach told the IrishTimes that Mr Shatter has his “100 per cent support” for disclosing the information.

2. Enda Kenny had a different view in the Dail on 13 Dec 2005 during the Michael McDowell / Frank Connelly episode.

3.To quote from Enda Kenny’s questioning of the then Taoiseach about leaking of confidental info by then Minister for Justice.

4. “Were the Taoiseach & other members of the Cabinet & Gov made aware that the Minister for Justice intended to leak information deliberately..”

5. It should not be necessary for a Minister, particularly Minister for Justice, to deliberately leak information to a sole journalist…”

6. “Does the Taoiseach agree that… the method chosen by the Minister for Justice, is not in keeping with the integrity of his office?”

7. Hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behaviour does not conform.

8. From that same Dail debate in 2005, Labour’s Pat Rabbitte’s contribution is worth repeating. Has the Minister made any comment, yet?

9. Rabbitte: “What I want to know is whether the Taoiseach stands over the untrammelled & unreviewable use of executive power… to leak a document”

More here.

Previously: Shatter Proof

(TV3)

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Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera asked teens outside the Supreme Court in Washington at the March Prop 8/DOMA hearings to express their traditionalist position on handwritten signs.

Last week, the adorably non-traditional George Takei exercised his right to reply.

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Daniel McSweeney writes:

Tilt-shift Dublin is a student project created by Stephen Duffy, Rafal Baran, Afshin Moosavi and Olivia Ricci, creative Digital Media students from the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown. Their work is being shown at the Creative Digital Media show on the 6th and 7th of June in ITB.

Music: Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros

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Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has said he received information about the gardaí using their discretion regarding an incident involving Independent TD Mick Wallace in the course of a briefing from the force.

 

The minister said he felt obliged to make the information public because Mr Wallace was adamant that gardaí should not use discretion.

 

There you go now.

Earlier: No Points At The Five Lamps

Previously: How Did He Know?

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Wildlife cameraman Brad Josephs sez:

When using a GoPro to capture unusually close footage of grizzly bears for the Great Bear Stakeout for BBC, I had a young bear actually chew on the camera. Amazingly there was no damage to the camera! Some of this clip appears in the film Great Bear Stakeoout on BBC and Discovery Channel.

Warning: Grizzly bears do not floss.

Making of The Great Bear Stakeout- Behind the scenes (Alaska Bears and Wolves)

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