Fordite, also known as Motor Agate, is a multilayered, heat-tempered nugget of hardened enamel paint dating back to a time when newly manufactured cars were painted using hand sprayers.
Excess paint collected on assembly line apparatus would harden into solid enamel after repeated exposure to the drying ovens. Once considered a waste product, the vintage chunks are now highly sought after by jewellers in the US.
Ciara Byrne writes:
“The One Direction takedown convoy trucking through Marino [Dublin} this morning.”
Mmmf.
Former Irish Independent journalist Eimear Ni Bhraonain
You’ll recall a post from last week in relation to former Irish Independent journalist Eimear Ni Bhraonain detailing how she is taking a constructive dismissal case against her employers after the paper failed to publish a story about Environment Minister Phil Hogan for ten days, until it learned the Irish Daily Mail was about to publish it.
The story was about how the Kilkenny/Carlow TD had written to some of his constituents in Kilkenny, to tell them a Traveller family – Patrick and Brigid Carthy and their seven children – would not be moved to a house near them.
Last week’s post also told how Phoenix magazine reported that Ms Ni Bhraonain was asked to investigate a dossier of alleged minor crimes pertaining to Mr Carty, after the Irish Independent received the dossier “from somewhere in the Kilkenny area”.
Further to this, Mark Tighe, in yesterday’s Sunday Times [not online behind paywall], reported how Ms Ni Bhraonain will claim there was political interference with her story.
In relation to the dossier, Mr Tighe reported:
Ní Bhraonáin claims she was then presented with what appeared to be an official print-out of the travellers’ criminal convictions and asked by editors to write a story about them.
Ní Bhraonáin will claim that when she asked Independent desk staff about the paper’s attitude, it was implied that the newspaper was ‘friendly’ towards Hogan.
Mr Tighe also reported that INM’s group editor Stephen Rae will deny there was political interference when Ms Ni Bhraonain’s case comes before a Rights Commissioner on June 10 and that INM will seek to have her claim thrown out on the grounds she failed to file it within six months of when she left the company.
Previously: Turning The Story On Its Head
Big Phil’s Fat Gypsy Prejudice
Pic: Pat Moore
From Safe Baby Handling Tips by David and Kelly Sopp.
This morning.
Nick Moran writes:
“A small selection of cable-ties left behind on Station Rd, Lusk [Co Dublin]. Why? too fupping lazy,that’s why.”
Pretty much the colours of Dublin this weekend
(H/T: Aidan, Sarah, Noel , Karen, Póló et al)
In an interview first shown in February and repeated last night on CBS, 60 Minutes’ Anderson Cooper talked to Liam Neeson about losing his wife Natasha Richardson in 2009 and coping with grief.
He also paid tribute to friend Bono for something he said to Neeson’s son, Michael.
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Living with grief: A conversation between men (Anderson Cooper, CBS News)
Chickenhead writes:
I was walking through Aachen [North Rhine], Germany train station on Saturday and it seems the Irish local elections are getting coverage in the Fatherland. The headline in orange says: “The Irish slap the established parties in the face“…
Peter B writes:
“RTE’s take on voting percentages. Back to school with you!”
