Scenes from Connemara, Co. Galway – including local Marty Walsh and his pal, Kylemore Abbey, dusk in Roundstone and sunset in Carna.
Taken by freelance travel writer Thomas Breathnach, from Cork, in the last week of November for a feature for the Boston Globe.
The Doon to Cappamore road remains closed after a slurry tank burst last night with tens of thousands of gallons of spilling onto the road.
It occurred at around 10.30pm and a car was swept off the road as the slurry flowed out.
Gardai, ambulance, two units of the fire service from Cappamore and Limerick County Council staff attended the scene and rescued the female driver. It is understood that she was not seriously injured but severely shocked from the freak accident.
Car crash after slurry tank cracks in County Limerick (Limerick Leader)
Pic: Magneta Direct
List of contents of racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks’s brown briefcase which was seized by police and shown to the jury of the News International phone-hacking trial in London.
A conker?
Contents of bags allegedly concealed by Charlie Brooks revealed (Guardian)
Via Lisa O’Carroll
Thanks John Gallen
Gotta say I like Garleth Brooks. If 2mara never comes is a great song. RG sings it like an angel.
— Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) January 21, 2014
His tomorrow will come.
RG anyone?
Meanwhile…
‘Dissident’ writes:
Are RTE co-sponsors of the Garth Brook’s concert[s]?I have just listened to a full HOUR on RTE [Radio 1] blatantly trying to shift tickets for Croke Park. The promoters must have friends in high places…
Hmmm.
Saturday Jan 25th: Hidden Agenda: Erol Alkan + Daniel Avery @ Button Factory, Temple Bar, Dublin (€10/€15, 11pm)
Nialler9 writes:
Erol Alkan has a serious reputation as a DJ and remixer but he’s only just released his own first solo track in December (‘A Hold On Love’) . His label Phantasy Sound released Daniel Avery’s Drone Logic, one of my albums of 2013, a textured yet jumbo-sized old-fashioned dance debut in the vein of Underworld. Put your party hats on.
[Fiach Mac Conghail, artistic director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin]
Further to reports of an independent study casting doubt on The Abbey Theatre’s ‘world class status’ [obtained under Freedom of Information]
[Mr Mac Chongail] said [On RTE R1’s Arena] the documents had been released before the process was completed as he had not sat down with the panel to discuss and respond to their views.“It’s like delivering a half diagnosis,” he said. He said he “fundamentally disagreed” with all their assessments of the productions.
He said he had explained to Fintan O’Toole of The Irish Times, who wrote the article, that the process was only half way through because the theatre had not given a response to the assessments. “But that wasn’t heeded,” he said. “The Irish Times published knowing full well that the process wasn’t completed, and they should have made that comment.”
Speaking later in the programme, O’Toole said he had asked Mr Mac Conghail to comment on the assessors’ reports, but he had declined. The Irish Times had also offered to publish a piece written by Mr Mac Conghail, an offer which still stood, O’Toole said, but this was also declined.
Needs more Sean O’Casey.
‘Cruel’ to publish negative reports, Abbey director says (RTE)
Panel Raises Doubt About Abbey Theatre’s World Class Status (Fintan O’Toole, irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
[Enda Kenny, top, this morning and John Tierney, head of Irish Water, above]
Former Dublin City Council manager and CEO of Irish Water John Tierney will have to explain the €95million spend on the unbuilt Poolbeg Incinerator to the Public Accounts Committee..
Taoiseach Enda Kenny told reporters outside the Dáil that he expects Mr Tierney will deal with any issues that arise when he appears before PAC.
Enda Kenny:“Irish Water, as you know, is a public utility and will subject to the Freedom of Information Act and all of the expenditure issues that go along with it. So, there’s a very major project to deal with the future of our country, in terms of supply of high quality water for people and business alike. We can’t have a situation where households have to boil water everyday, we can’t have a situation where 40% of what we produce, and then you pay for is leaking into the ground. you have to have consistency and a very high standard and Mr Tierney is heading up the utility called Uisce Éireann, or Irish Water, to deliver that.”
Journalist: “And he’s the right man for the job?”
Kenny: “Well, he’s the Chief Executive of Irish Water. I have every confidence in him to do his job as expected.”
Now Irish Water chief faces PAC over €96m Poolbeg bill (Irish Independent)
Previously: Incinerating Poolbeg
Mark Stedman, Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
“2fm was established in 1979 in a different era, to play pop music aimed at young people when there were no legally licensed broadcasters other than RTE. (It) has been totally eclipsed by independent radio stations, doing what 2fm used to do, doing it far better and at a fraction of the cost.”
John Purcell, Independent Broadcasters of ireland
RTE said 2fm was an “integral part of its overall suite” designed to meet the needs of a diverse audience, and that its financing had been approved by the Government. It said that 2fm’s ability to generate money from advertising was “considerably less” than independent radio stations, since laws restrict it to playing four minutes and 30 seconds worth of ads per hour rather than the nine minutes afforded to other broadcasters.
Fight!
RTE rejects claim 2fm is a waste of public cash (Sarah McCabe, Independent.ie)
Pic: Adforce
[Sabina Higgins and President Michael D Higgins]
Áras an Uachtaráin has confirmed that Sabina Higgins, wife of President Michael D Higgins, visited Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy in Limerick Prison at the weekend.
Ms Higgins’s visit was undertaken in a private capacity, a spokesman said. The visit took place less than a week after Ms D’Arcy, who is 79 and undergoing treatment for cancer, was jailed for refusing to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones at Shannon airport.
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Both women have been friends in Galway for many years, and President Higgins spoke at the funeral of D’Arcy’s husband, playwright John Arden.
Meanwhile, over on the the Galway Alliance Against War Facebook page:
President’s wife visits activist Margaretta D’Arcy in prison (Irish Times)
Previously: Meanwhile, At The Department of Justice
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
