Yearly Archives: 2014

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…and win the All-Ireland Hurling Final.

Galway County Cllr Michael Fahy, an Independent, calls for a ban on foreign workers in relation to the construction of the Gort to Tuam motorway.

From this week’s Connacht Tribune:

The five hundred jobs that are to be created during the construction of the Gort to Tuam motorway should be given to Galway workers . . . and not foreigners.

It has been argued that hurling teams in South Galway are decimated through emigration and there was a need to attract these hurlers back.

But Cllr. Michael Fahy emphasised that he had nothing against people from Poland, Latvia or Lithuania.

“The point I am making is that they should go home and try and get jobs in their own countries.

“We are currently in a crisis situation in County Galway. We haven’t enough jobs for our own people.

“It is 26 years since we won an All-Ireland hurling title and the main reason is that some of our best hurlers and workers are living abroad”, Cllr. Michael Fahy added.

Jay.

Sus.

Controversial Galway Councillor wants motorway jobs kept for local workers (Connacht Tribune)

Thanks Enda Cunningham

Update:

https://soundcloud.com/bloodboylan/classic-hits-4fm-interview-with-michael-fahy

Classic Hits 4FM’s Niall Boylan grills Cllr Fahy this afternoon.

Thanks Mike Hogan

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By designer, artist and illustrator Hannah Doyle

Hannah explainz:

“The idea  just came to mind one day, as a cheesy, but funny all the same way of showing some coolness. It’s pretty simple really, but it made me chuckle.
“…I work as a web designer most of the time, and freelance on a variety of design and illustration projects. I also work as designer for the quarterly short story e-journal The South Circular  and I’m part of a collective of designers called Lone Rangers. The members of Lone Rangers all work on our own, as freelancers or in house designers, and we come together to give advice, swap information, collaborate on projects and generally act as a bit of a sounding board….”

This Week’s Le Cool Dublin issue


Russell Pritchard Photography

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What you may need to know:

1. Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones embark upon a mission of mercy across the harsh wild west.

2. This is Jones’ second time as player/manager after he directed and starred in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005). His bleak and furrowed brow was also favourited by location scouts before settling on Georgia.

3. The film is based on a Glendon Swarthout novel. This is Swarthout’s seventh novel to be committed to film including  The Shootist (1976) and Where The Boys Are (1960).

4. It features mother and daughter Meryl Streep and Grace Gummer.

5. Paul Newman initially held the rights and tried to develop the film.

6. It’s a western with a feminist subtext.

7. Broadsheet Prognosis: No Country For Old Women

Release Date: 21st November

(Delboy is away)

Enduring Freedom

The army will take over the Miss Uganda beauty contests in order to attract young people into the agricultural sector so as to solve problems of hunger and poverty among the youth in the country.

This was revealed by Gen Caleb Akandwanaho aka Salim Saleh, the presidential adviser on military matters. “We are almost signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Miss Uganda Foundation because we want to choose the next Miss Uganda basing on agriculture and this is intended to interest the young people into the sector,” Gen Saleh said.

Army to take over Miss Uganda beauty contest (Lilian Namagembe, Daily Monitor)

Via Barry Malone

Pic: Wikipedia