Lisa O’Brien tweetz:
You’ve seen the classy Life Insurance ads from Instant Life Insurance, right?
Yearly Archives: 2014
Today’s Sun newspaper
Further to the decision to remove the topless Page Three models from the Irish Sun in August 2013, Roy Greenslade, of The Guardian, writes:
“Whisper it lest it get about, but I think the Sun is quietly weaning itself off page 3. The paper has not run its usual topless picture since Thursday. It hasn’t given up publishing pictures of scantily-clad women, of course. But the long-run routine of publishing a model smiling vacantly at the camera with her breasts on show has been disrupted.
Friday’s page was devoted to shot of a naked Kim Kardashian with her nipple concealed. The Saturday and Sunday issues, as has long been the case, featured non-topless pictures.
Today, across pages 2 and 3, are a set of tastefully clothed pictures of a former Coronation Street star, Michelle Keegan, on a modelling shoot in Majorca.
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According to an official Sun spokesman, “it’s often the case that if we get exclusive pictures from our more popular female stars we will give them a page 2-3 spread.”
The Sun’s Page 3 topless pictures appear to be on their way out… (Roy Greenslade, The Guardian)
Previously: Éireann Go Bra
Episode two of a three-part series, Now We’re Hurling, by Dublin Community Television which follows Kilkenny MC and hurling enthusiast Captain Moonlight around Dublin as he investigates the rise in interest and quality in both hurling and hip hop in the capital.
John Breslin, from DCTV, writes:
Would be lovely to get more eyes on this if ye fancy having a look at it. Some great insights on the beautiful game, an intercounty hurler being put through his paces in Ballymun, some quality raps and an ad that takes the form of a silent movie made by Crumlin GAA members.
Episode three will be uploaded here today
Watch episode one here
Double Ooh
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Der Howard tweetz:
An ad with two men holding hands in bed, Ikea? Jaysus don’t let @BAItweets see that!!!
“The Competition Authority must urgently review the extent of Mr O’Brien’s influence in newsprint, digital and radio. It needs to assess how that would be affected by a deal with TV3 in the areas of advertising and talent-sharing. The Competition Authority should seek to determine whether INM and Communicorp have engaged in any joint selling of advertising involving their respective platforms and the value of any such transactions.”
“That there is already co-operation between INM and Communicorp is not in doubt. In addition to scratching each other’s back on editorial matters there is also a growing trend for “contra” advertising. In 2012 INM received the equivalent of €500,000 in advertising from Communicorp and those stations received the same amount in return.”
“Last year those respective figures had increased to €1m. The authority also needs to find out what business arrangements, if any, exist between Mr O’Brien’s Topaz Energy, the country’s biggest oil and convenience brand with 330 stations, and INM’s newspaper titles.”
From an editorial in yesterday’s Sunday Times, further to the news that TV3 is planning to form a partnership with Communicorp, the radio group owned by Denis O’Brien.
Previously: Anything Good In The Sunday Times?
Wanderley Massafelli/Photocall Ireland
Off He Goes
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Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant with her second child, Clarence House confirms http://t.co/egGROAzXpD
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) September 8, 2014
Here we go.
Duchess of Cambridge pregnant with second child (BBC)
(Thanks John Roberts)
Exemplary
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Garda whistleblower John Wilson shakes hands with Acting Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan outside Leinster House in Dublin last May
You may recall a post last week about how Gemma O’Doherty reported in The Sunday Times that former Garda John Wilson still hadn’t received his ‘certificate of service’ even though he left An Garda Síochána 15 months previous – after 30 years of service.
It was also reported that, before Mr Wilson left the gardaí in May 2013, he was disciplined for attending a court hearing on a day in which he wasn’t on duty. When he was questioned by garda management to explain his whereabouts, he said he had done nothing wrong. After refusing to account for his presence at the hearing, he was subjected to a disciplinary process. In April, he lost a High Court case he took against the disciplinary action and he’s now appealing this to the Supreme Court.
During his case in the High Court, Mr Wilson was offered an exemplary certificate of service on the condition he withdrew his action, but he didn’t.
Yesterday, Gemma O’Doherty wrote in The Sunday Times:
The certificate [exemplary] was sent to him by registered post, three days after his story appeared in last week’s newspaper…Speaking yesterday Wilson said he was relieved the situation had been resolved. “It’s taken more than 16 months to get it, but at least I have it now and can try to get a new job,” he said. “It was a terrible worry hanging over me. I badly needed it.
Garda whistleblower is eventually given certificate (Gemma O’Doherty, Sunday Times)
Previously: How Petty?
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
Watery
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Hmmm.
Also: Um.
IN FULL: Data Protection Notice (IrishWater)
Thanks Annie West
Update:
Alan writes:
You will notice from here that Irish Water is NOT authorised to use PPS numbers. From the FAQ’s:
Q9. What do I do if someone who is not entitled to use the PPS Number asks me for it?
A9. If you believe that a person asking for your PPS Number is not entitled to do so, do not give them your number until you have contacted Client Identity Services of the Department of Social Protection, Social Wefare Services, Shannon Lodge, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim (Telephone 01-7043281) for advice. You can also email Client Identity Services at cis@welfare.ie.I have emailed CIS and Irish Water about it this evening. You will notice on the link: “The legislation governing the allocation and use of the PPS Number is contained in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 and the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010. Only Specified Bodies named in the above Social Welfare Acts can use the PPS Number.”
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe that any Social Welfare act was passed this year to allow Irish Water use PPS numbers.