Perishing jarveys.
Pat Flanagan writes:
Annamoe Road, Hanlon’s Corner, Dublin 7 just now.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Right So
atIdiots at work @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/x36tVGQY5l
— Catherine Kinsella (@cathyk626) January 17, 2014
He’s gone full Tsartard.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says gays should feel welcome at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but they must “leave the children in peace.”
Putin told volunteers Friday that gays visiting Sochi “can feel calm and at ease,” and vowed that there would be no discrimination at the games. But he emphasized that, according to a law banning homosexual “propaganda” among minors, gays cannot express their views on gay rights issues to anyone underage.
Putin: Gays must ‘leave children in peace’ (AP)
Photocall Ireland
At the Cork Person of the Year awards in Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. World 50K Walk champion Rob Heffernan (right) is named Cork Person of the Year while Jeremy Irons (left) is made an honorary Corkman.
Controversial, in fairness.
Previously: Rob Heffernan on Broadsheet
The business card scene and Huey Lewis and the News scene from American Psycho superbly hipsterised by London/Amsterdam based creative agency Fickering Wall.
Newstalk listener Brendan McCafferty complained to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland about comments made by the station’s Breakfast Show’s presenters in relation to Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s decision not to participate in a public debate on the referendum to abolish the Seanad.
Mr McCafferty complained the presenters compared Mr Kenny to Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong and did not give an alternative view based on facts.
Mr McCafferty claimed the presenters ‘should have known that no Taoiseach ever takes part in such debates outside of general election time and, in fact, there is much precedent for this stand by An Taoiseach’.
Mr McCafferty claimed the presenters lacked impartiality and balance.
Newstalk responded saying previous Taoisigh did debate matters outside of general elections, including former Fine Gael Taoiseach, John Bruton, who debated the 1996 divorce referendum on RTÉ’s ‘This Week’ and in several radio interviews, and fellow former Fine Gael Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald, who debated a previous divorce referendum in 1986 on RTE’s Today Tonight.
However, the BAI decided to uphold part of Mr McCafferty’s complaint.
It decided:
“The Committee was of the opinion that other perspectives on the decision of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny not to participate in media debates were not provided. Further, the Committee found that the presenters made a number of comments that should have rightly been balanced by other perspectives. These included comments on the decision of An Taoiseach not to participate in a television debate, as well as the broader media communications decisions of An Taoiseach, as being akin to those of Mao Zedong.”
“In view of the above, the Committee found that the programme discussion failed to meet the requirements of the BAI Code of Fairness, Objectivity and Impartiality in News and Current Affairs and the complaint has been upheld in part further to Section 4.1 of this Code.”
DEBATE! Fight!
Read the complaint and decision in full here
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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It has emerged that the former CEO of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) Paul Kiely [above] was also a member of the board of The Care Trust – the charity fundraising body whose funds were used to top up Mr. Kiely’s pension when he stepped down from the clinic.
EXCLUSIVE: Newstalk learns Kiely sat on Board of CRC fundraiser (Newstalk)
I’m surprised to hear anyone say,
That there may be a way for a gay,
To cure the disease,
That put him on his knees,
And made him so desperate to pray.
John Moynes
Thanks Buzz
[Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle, top, and Ireland’s
assistant football manager Roy Keane, above]
Roddy Doyle is to write Roy Keane’s memoir, called The Second Half. It will be published this autumn.
The Bookseller reports:
Keane said: “I am very happy to be working with Roddy Doyle on this book, and look forward to the experience.”
Doyle said: “Ten years ago I was buying something in a shop in New York and I handed my credit card to the young African man behind the counter. He read ‘Bank of Ireland’ on the card, looked at me and said: ‘Ireland – Roy Keane.’ I’m delighted to be writing this book with Roy.”
Roddy Doyle to write Roy Keane memoir (The Bookseller)
Pics: The Inside Left and Irish Media Watch
Doc Sweets on Emily Brontë’s classic tale of two fat cribs and a playa’s soul torn between love and hate.