From 1987, an ad for Fasinex.
Farmer Billy narrowly missed out to Michael Caine for Best Supporting Actor that year.
Not a lot of people know that.
Yearly Archives: 2014
“The report mentioned earlier that I received from RITS gives as an opinion, based on the reports provided for RITS, that “there is no evidence of any technical or electronic surveillance against GSOC”; that is, no evidence at all, not merely no definitive evidence. The report also disputes other conclusions reached by Verrimus. I appreciate that GSOC relied on the reports it had received from the security company it had contracted. I cannot ignore the report I received from the company asked to conduct a peer review of the technical documentation furnished by GSOC to me and the information accompanying it. Having regard to the differences that have arisen, the additional information I have received since I made my first statement to the Dáil, the ongoing nature of this controversy, its debilitating impact on the capacity of GSOC to get on with its work and the continuing overhang of suspicion voiced by some, despite the conclusions of GSOC, that the Garda Síochána or a member of the Garda Síochána was engaged in misconduct, I concluded that it was important to do what was possible and reasonable to bring an end to ongoing controversy.”
Justice Minister Alan Shatter – Tuesday, February 18, 2014
“Mr Shatter has failed to give us the alternative explanations that he said he would, and the committee is disappointed and alarmed by this. What he has sent us is non-committal, and just a series of queries, and based on it we have to be alarmed as to what he said in the Dáil. We would have to find at this stage in favour of the Verimus analysis based on what the minister has sent us. As things stand, we have to conclude that — for whatever reason — the minister was talking up the analysis of Rits and was talking down the findings of Verimus without justification. Is there a narrative here? Was the minister trying to disprove the allegations, rather than examine them? That is the concern and it is a very significant matter.”
Sinn Féin TD and chairman of the Public Services Oversight Committee, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn – in today’s Irish Examiner.
Previously: Putting It On Rits
Dáil transcript: kildarestreet.com
‘Alarm’ at Shatter’s failure to disprove bug claim (Irish Examiner)
[The Architecture Factory at the Cork Institute of Technology]
Monika Crowley writes:
I know you don’t normally do this but given the week that’s in it… Could you give a shout out to the Architecture Factory at Cork Institute of Technology? They are in the running for an international award at The Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards but need more votes. Our national pride is at stake! People can vote here. Voting closes this Friday, please vote – it will only take a minute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keRRq-f-X0E
The BBC understands the PSNI are to refer a video, which appears to show officers leaving a incapacitated woman at the side of a road, to the police ombudsman.
The video shows a woman being lifted from the middle of the road on John Street in Derry. The woman was then moved to a bus stop and the police drove off.
Assistant chief constable George Hamilton said the behaviour, was “well below the standards we expect from our officers in dealing with vulnerable people whether the vulnerability is due to alcohol or anything else”.
Derry video: Police Ombudsman to review police officer video (BBC News NI)
Luke Sweetman writes:
“Thought you might be interested in this video for Electric Picnic [2013], as they are releasing the first acts at 12pm today!”
Song: Noah and The Whale – There Will Come A Time
Thanks Luke Sweetman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP05GtOLVfI
Scenes on St Patrick’s Day after a man was kicked as he lay on a Dublin street.
Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
“At least two men in tracksuits were caught on camera running into the road on Aston Quay and kicking a young man lying on the ground. One of the boys kicked the helpless victim, thought to be from Brazil, in the head and ran off before the other booted him in the face, knocking him unconscious.”
Call Pearse Street gardai on 01666 9000.
Video: Man gets thumping kick to the head in disgusting St Patrick’s Day attack (IrishMirror)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A414bFowGd8
“The English made the rules, the Scots made the money and the Irish made the songs…”
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s St Patrick’s Day message.
Donal Marah writes:
“Patronising much?”
FIGHT!
Anyone?
Very tricky.
Thanks Reppy
Progressive Unionist Party leader Billy Hutchinson has repeated his assertion in today’s Belfast News Letter that he has no regrets about his part in the sectarian murder of two half-brothers in 1974.
Edward Morgan (27) and Michael Loughran (18) were gunned down on the Falls Road in Belfast as they walked to work on the morning of October 21st.
During the murder trial, evidence was heard that the killers drove around and selected their victims randomly. Hutchinson served 15 years of a life sentence. He previously stated his lack of regret in Peter Taylor’s BBC documentary Loyalists in 1999 (above).