‘Paisley: Genesis to Revelation – Face to Face with Eamonn Mallie.’ ….@BBCnireland Prog 1, 10.35 Monday night. Do join me.
— Eamonn Mallie (@EamonnMallie) January 12, 2014
Eamonn Mallie interviews Ian Paisley in the first of two one hour episodes.
BBC One 10:35pm tonight.
Previously: Shots Across The Border
Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has lost his High Court challenge against an investigation by the Standards in Public Office Commission into alleged duplication of expenses claims.
He lost his challenge requiring his case to be heard by a commission comprising of bilingual members, who were able to conduct and understand the proceedings without the assistance of an interpreter.
The case relates to an investigation concerning travel and subsistence claims made by Mr Ó Domhnaill between 2006 and 2007, when he was a member of Donegal County Council.
Brian Ó Domhnaill loses challenge over expenses investigation (RTÉ News)
Previously: Never Go Full TD
SciShow’s Hank Green explores the history, science and active ingredient of chocolate.
Previously: True Facts About Gingers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMGhtBmJro
Of this NSFW compilation Slacktory sez:
“The Wolf of Wall Street” is the most f**k-filled non-documentary movie in the history of Hollywood. We counted 522 audible, intelligible f**ks. (“The Big Lebowski” only had 260.)
(Possible f***ing spoilers.)
Holly Hamilton of Downtown Radio/Cool FM with this afternoon’s news from Belfast.
It’s radio on the telly.
A budget meeting of Donegal County Council in Lifford has been adjourned following an argument between Independent Cllr Frank McBrearty and Fianna Fáil Cllr Ciaran Brogan.
The council met for three days and nights and couldn’t reach an agreement over the council’s budget for 2014.
It follows calls by councillors for the transfer of €350m worth of assets from the council to Irish Water to be halted.
Cllr Brogan told the Irish Independent:
“We met as a party at the weekend and we will continue to maintain our stand on behalf of the Donegal public and send a clear message to the management of this Council as well as Minister Phil Hogan that the people of this county have suffered enough and will no longer accept these savage cuts from this Government.
“Minister Hogan rammed through legislation before Christmas where all of the opposition TDs walked out of the Daíl. He and his Government are neither prepared nor willing to listen to a view point other than his own or his party’s which flies in the face of democracy.”
Donegaldaily.com reports:
“The meeting never even got to discuss the budget before it ended in uproar. Cllr Brogan had claimed that one of his party colleagues Cllr David Alcorn had received a threatening email at 4.46am from Cllr McBrearty. Cllr McBrearty then called through Mayor Ian McGarvey for Cllr Brogan to “withdraw these slanderous comments.”
“The independent councillor also asked for the email to be read into the record to “prove” it was not a threatening email. Mayor McGarvey agreed; then withdrew permission on legal advice from Director of Service Liam Ward. Mayor McGarvey was forced to adjourn the meeting amid uproar. But Cllr McBrearty read out his email to Cllr Alcorn anyway as Fine Gael, Labour and independents listened.”
Jaykers.
Council meeting adjourned amid uproar over late night emails (Donegal Daily)
Rebel council ‘to fold today’ over Irish Water (Independent.ie)
Previously: Three nights and three days
Fleet Street in Dublin at 9am this morning.
Thanks Eddie Troy
The new €10 has been unveiled by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, this morning. To be ‘distributed’ after the summer.
Name that arch & bridge anyone?
D’olier Westmoreland Street, Dublin February 5, 1948.
Photos of Dublin tweet:
The Irish Times building in 1948, publishing the results of the day [the election of Ireland’s first First Inter-Party government ]…
