Yearly Archives: 2014

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Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe was on duty in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, yesterday when he met Taoiseach Enda Kenny while he was in the town canvassing. In the Dail last week, the Taoiseach said:

“I’ve no problem in apologising to Sgt McCabe for the issues that he raised and for the fact that his raising these matters wasn’t dealt with more speedily in the first instance.”

Reporting on their meeting yesterday, Ronan Casey, in the Irish Daily Mail [not online], writes:

[Taoiseach Enda Kenny] did not take the opportunity to apologise to Sergeant McCabe in person – but both men smiled and shook hands at the Market Square. Mr Kenny said: ‘Hello Sergeant McCabe, how are you?’

Watch back on RTE’s Nine News here

Top pic: Mullingar

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[Sean O’Rourke]

All broadcasters must be aware,
When you’re making a program in Clare,
You may talk jobs and money,
But it’s never funny,
To ask about Our Saviour’s hair.

John Moynes

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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Extraordinary (if a little traumatic) footage captured by unsuspecting tourists in South Africa’s Shamwari Game Reserve. To wit:

…a pair of lionesses surprised two blesboks running in their direction. To escape, a frightened blesbok jumped several metres from the ridge – only to be intercepted mid-flight…

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90175333 NI First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness

First Minister Peter Robinson has rejected Sinn Féin claims he was showing cowardice as a politician.

Earlier this month Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness accused Mr Robinson of “cowardice of the worst kind”.

He claimed Mr Robinson had not spoken out about alleged UVF involvement in violence and racist intimidation.

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MLA said: “I have stood shoulder to shoulder with unionist leaders in condemning the activities of so-called dissident republicans.

“We have not seen the same united approach in response to UVF-orchestrated violence against isolated members of our ethnic minority communities, against the small nationalist community of the Short Strand, against the PSNI during the flag protests or against Alliance party offices.“

Hmm.

From the 1980s, the then MP for East Belfast Peter Robinson was interviewed by John Ware for BBC’s Panorama (above) where he described Loyalist prisoners as “counter-terrorists”.

First Minister Peter Robinson rejects ‘cowardice’ claims (BBC News NI)

Previously: Was It For This?

File Pic: Photocall Ireland