Yearly Archives: 2014

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Businessman Harry Crosbie 

Newstalk reports:

“Businessman Harry Crosbie has lodged High Court proceedings against the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). The court action calls on NAMA to stop pursuing any outstanding debt against him. The High Court case also calls for the removal of the receiver from the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre – and also looks for compensation for so called ‘leaks made by NAMA of personal information regarding his financial affairs’.”

Businessman Harry Crosbie lodges proceedings against NAMA (Newstalk)

Previously: Meanwhile, At The Commercial Court

So You Saw Harry Crosbie On The Saturday Night Show, Right?

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Ombudsman Peter Tyndall

Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has announced that he will carry out an investigation into how complaints are handled by public hospitals in Ireland and he has asked YOU to help, saying:

“Despite the high number of interactions with our hospitals, relatively few people complain when they are unhappy with the service they receive. Compared with other jurisdictions, complaints to the HSE and to my Office are very low. I want to find out why this is. I want to ensure that people have access to an efficient and effective complaint handling service and to be confident that where poor practice is found, the health service is learning from its mistakes and preventing recurrence.”

Complaints can be made through the Ombudsman’s website here; by emailing hsecomplaints@ombudsman.gov.ie; phoning 1890 22 30 30; or writing FREEPOST to Ombudsman, 18 Lr Leeson Street, Freepost F5069, Dublin 2

Ombudsman to investigate how public hospitals handle complaints

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg1Qyz0Jus

No, not a spoof viral for an upcoming zombie apocalypse flick but the gleeful and terrifying promo for armament developer G2 Research’s new and highly controversial Radically Invasive Projectile, the G2 RIP, released early this year – a bullet featuring tiny knife-like ‘trocars’ that penetrate and shred flesh.

Initially marketed at women in the home as a ‘one-shot man-stopper’, it’s designed to take out ‘all vital organs’, creating a massive exit wound in the process.

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(H/T: Andrew Sheridan)

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In Sligo?

A ‘funding-free’ alternative Yeatsday celebration, you say?

Drumcliffe Tea House right beside the grave of Yeats [Drumcliffe, Co Sligo] are having a birthday party for the 149-year-old dead poet from 3-5pm TODAY.

What’s on offer?

Yeats Cakes! Free chocolate Muffins with Moon and Stars icing! Whiskey Biscuit Cake (also known as WBCake). Free Biros! Silly string! A guy running around shouting out Poetry!

PLUS artist Annie West will be standing around ambushing greeting random passers by with free postcards, “whether they want them or not”.

Annie writes:

“There will be many attempts to raise Yeats from the dead, or at least make him spin in his grave : Misplaced apostrophes. Reckless use of multiple exclamation marks. Misquotes all over the graveyard.
Middle aged scruffy women stepping around graves at Drumcliffe with dainty feet, muttering and arguing about whether Yeats is actually down there or still in France….”

You had us at scruffy.

Drumcliffe Tea House

the living room

Last night.

The beer garden of The Living Room, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin.

Niall Skip Murphy writes:

“Hundreds of Brazilians belting out their national anthem [Hino Nacional Brasileiro] before the World Cup opener last night,.Fair play to them…”

It’s no Amhrán na bhFiann, in fairness.

 Earlier: And They Were All Yellow

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Everyone was there.

The launch of Taste Of Dublin in the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.

The food festival continues until SuNOMNOMNOM

From top: Michel Roux Junior and Tom Kitchin; Yolanda Zaw and Kevin Thornton; (l-r) Katherine Mulrooney, Liz Dwyer and Aisling O Loughlin; Susan Loughnane; Kim O Driscoll  & Peter Coonan; Andrew Rudd & Lorraine Keane.

Red socks with shorts.

Controversial.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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Ethereal, virtually silent first-person footage of surfer Benji Brand doing his thing (first in slomo, then at normal speed) in Namibia’s Skeleton Bay.

As an exceptional example of sustained wave riding, gnarl-heads the world over are touting it as the finest first person surf video to date.

You be the judge.

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The purchase of three major Irish businesses over the past two years by the billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien involved total bank write-offs of more than €300 million.
The deals saw the businessman invest €230 million to acquire the Siteserv Group, the Topaz Group and the Beacon Private Hospital.
The Siteserv deal saw the State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, which is now in liquidation, write off €110 million of the €150 million it was owed. Mr O’Brien’s move to become the major shareholder in the Topaz Group earlier this year involved the IBRC writing off slightly more than half of the €304 million it was owed.

Banks write off over €300m in three deals with Denis O’Brien (Colm Keena, Irish Times)