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Yearly Archives: 2014
[Geraldine O’Hanlon and a couple of rescue hounds]
The Kildare Animal Foundation Needs YOUR Help.
Founder Geraldine O’Hara writes:
Our Situation is now very Serious We need help. Those who supply us with food and provide veterinary care have been more than patient. It is now almost 7 weeks since we have been able to make any payments. Our electricity supply is tenuous on a very severe and unsustainable payment demand.
Every coin jar has been emptied, every pocket searched and we have nowhere else to turn.
The cause is simple – there are more animals than ever coming to us for care and fewer people in a position to donate. We have not been extravagant or wasteful, there is more going out than coming in.
We need to raise at least €8,000 to simply catch up.
The stress of this situation is difficult for all of us especially as there are more animals waiting to come in. Providing good quality food and veterinary care is the very core of what we do here. We do not engage in random and regular appeals. We ask now only when we have nowhere else to turn. Please if you can, help us to turn this situation around so we can go back to what we do best.
Donations online via the Kildare Animal Foundation’s PayPal account. (Please visit the website for the PayPal button). Or You can send a donation by post to the Kildare Animal Foundation, South Green Road, Kildare Town.
Thanks Cheeky Dog Bakery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LW1764quns&feature=youtu.be
A 22-second teaser for model/singer Nadia Forde’s debut (double A-side) single BPM/Haunted’, available to download from iTunes in Ireland from Friday May 2.
Contains: Strobe lighting, flimsy nether garments.
Paul Simon (top) and (middle pic) with Marie Heaney (left) and Catherine Heaney (right) and (above) Seamus Heaney and with Catherine and Amnesty for Art’s Bill Shipsey in Dublin Airport T2 this afternoon to unveil a tapestry dedicated to the memory.
Earlier: Meanwhile, At Dublin Airport
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Last week’s Sunday Times reported how former Anglo Irish Bank Seán FitzPatrick’s legal costs – following the trial in which he was acquitted of 16 charges – are likely to amount be between €500,000 and €1million.
Journalist Mark Tighe reported how he asked Mr FitzPatrick – who is bankrupt – if he applied for legal aid.
Brian Harmon, a PR consultant who is also a lawyer and who accompanied Mr FitzPatrick throughout the trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, said Mr FitzPatrick had no comment.
Mr Tighe also asked if businessman, and the largest shareholder in Independent News and Media, Denis O’Brien helped to foot Mr FitzPatrick’s legal bill.
Mr Harmon, who has previously acted as spokesman for Mr O’Brien, said Mr O’Brien had no involvement in the court case.
Separately, it was reported in The Sunday Independent that the sale of an oil field in Nigeria may help to pay off Mr FitzPatrick’s €110million debts to the former Anglo Irish Bank.
Mr FitzPatrick is a member of a consortium which owns the Nigerian Ekeh oil field, and Nick Webb in the Sunday Independent reported yesterday that Midway Resources has indicated that it wants to buy the field.
Mr Webb reported:
“The owner of the Ekeh field is a company called Movido Exploration, whose shareholders include Sean FitzPatrick, the former non-executive chairman of Anglo Irish Bank.”
“The other shareholders in the scheme are former Anglo director and ex-Dublin Docklands Development chairman Lar Bradshaw, oil engineer Jim O’Driscoll and a group of Nigerian business people and former military personnel.These include a former vice-admiral in the Nigerian navy, Victor Ombu. FitzPatrick, Bradshaw and O’Driscoll are believed to own about 39 per cent of Movido Exploration.”
You may recall chapter 12 of the book The FitzPatrick Tapes, (by Tom Lyons and Brian Carey). You must. It’s the one WITHOUT an index.
It tells how, in March 2009, Denis O’Brien lent Mr FitzPatrick and Lar Bradshaw – who both resigned from Anglo in December 2008 – his private jet and travelled with them to Lagos in Nigeria to convince the Nigerian businessmen involved in the project that he was good for his investment.
Mr Lyons and Mr Carey wrote “O’Brien and lent his jet and his support in order to soothe the anxieties of the Nigerian businessmen who had been following FitzPatrick’s tribulations in Ireland with increasing alarm and were losing faith in his ability to keep funding the well”.
Mr Lyons and Mr Carey wrote how Mr O’Brien lent the two men his private jet and travelled with them to Lagos to meet their Nigerian colleagues.
Good times.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
A new Cycling With… profile featuring cycle-newbie Dr. Madeleine Lyes who, sez Paddy Cahill:
…started cycling so she could enjoy trips with her boyfriend but she soon saw the potential for cycling to transform Dublin, and other cities, for the better. We went for a cycle with Madeleine and she told us the lessons she has learned about cycling, her thoughts on recent changes in attitudes to urbanism in Dublin, and about her project, an urban forum in Dublin called City Intersections.
Previously: Cycling With Fergal
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Scenes around government buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin this afternoon as campaigners including Labour Party Anti-Water Tax Party worker Goda Akuockaite (top) and Labour’s Rebecca Moynihan prepare for the local and European elections..
It may get gnarly.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile….
Right so.
Thanks Cathal O’Rourke
Getting reports of another stand-off between residents & @IrishWater contractors in Raheny in Dublin. Stand-off in #Cork continues
— Eoin English (@EoinBearla) April 23, 2014
Annie writes
“I’m throwing an event this Saturday (1pm – 3pm) for the Beatyard festival at the Bernard Shaw, Richmond Street, Dublin 2, Just wondering if it would interest your readers? Tickets are €5 but if you use the code BEATYARD they are just €3, for that you get:
– tasting of Brown Paper Bag Project beers with brewer Brian Short
– digital photography class with Claire Nash
– some pizza…”
Tickets here