Yearly Archives: 2014
Specktacular
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The International Space Station passses in front of a daytime moon, around 400km above the earth.
Laura Gaynor writes:
As part of the SpunOut media fund we made a video about job interviews. We’re hoping that it’s informative and/or vaguely entertaining for the potential audience of 382,000 people on the live register. We’d love if you’d check it out and feel free to add your own tips!
Siren Song
atAs outbreak of WWI is remembered, here’s a recruiting poster from our collection. More here: http://t.co/v6mGhrX4vs pic.twitter.com/bgjDrG7078
— Nat Library Ireland (@NLIreland) August 5, 2014
Britain’s Foreign Office minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, top, has sent her resignation letter to Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, above, over Britain’s “morally indefensible” position on the conflict in Gaza.
We Got Lucky
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Former Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte
Mr Rabbitte said in his view the country was lucky to get the experienced Cabinet it did in 2011, given the crisis facing the country. He also hit out at critics of the Labour Party who accused it of failing to put manners on Fine Gael. “People who would never vote for the Labour Party get very indignant about Labour not keeping its coalition partner on the straight and narrow,” he said.
Kenny is ‘no Bambi’ says Rabbitte as he slams Fine Gael (Irish Independent)
H/T: Oireachtas Retort
Cling film graffiti on Henry Street, Dublin 1, spotted yesterday and this morning.
Previously: Clinging On
Pics (from top) via Sue Sherry, Jake Smith and Stephen Brow
The Irish Times reports:
“Cheating and giving false information was “endemic” in planning during the boom time in Kerry, An Taisce has claimed. Landscaping conditions attached to planning were also regularly ignored, the heritage body has told Kerry County Council.
In a submission to the draft county development plan for 2015-2021, An Taisce claims that farm families enjoyed favouritism in planning, with less stringent conditions than others.
“An Taisce is aware of cases where the house was sold to an outsider, despite having an occupancy clause for a particular person,” Dr Catherine McMullin, An Taisce’s honorary planning officer for the region, said.
Cheating in planning was ‘endemic’ in Kerry, says An Taisce (Irish Times)
It’s not the first game for a phone,
Where shots are fired and bombs are thrown,
But blowing up schools,
Just breaks all the rules,
And it’s something no one should condone.
John Moynes