Walter Hobbs
Walter Hobbs was IBRC’s independent expert who oversaw the massively controversial sale of Siteserv to Denis O’Brien-owned Millington.
In a memorable RTÉ Prime Time appearance last year, Mr Hobbs described the deal as the best the state could have achieved.
So what of Walter now?
A Young Covey writes:
That guy now seems to be this guy and nobody appears to have raised a single question about it….
Good times.
Previously:
This morning.
Dublin city centre.
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Banks are forcing over 40 children to become homeless every single month. pic.twitter.com/xIBVDVJb9d— Focus Ireland (@FocusIreland) December 2, 2016
Rollignews
Reissued digitally and made available for free download yesterday by Limerick’s Out on a Limb Records (after years of only being available on CD-R) is Cork post-metallers Rest’s take on Walking in the Air, a staple of annual indie Irish Xmas playlists and awkward seasonal band communiqués.
Bah, humbug.
Which begs the question of our regulars: favourite Irish-artist Christmas tunes that aren’t by Frank Kelly?
From top: Cover and sample page of Jonathan Sugarman’s book The Whistleblower; and Mr Sugarman (centre) at the launch of his book at Buswells Hotel in Dublin this morning, with MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and Diarmuid O’Flynn, of Ballyhea Says No
A bit of a hero, in fairness.
Jonathan Sugarman is a former executive at Unicredit Bank Ireland in Dublin’s IFSC who resigned in September 2007 after giving a detailed account of enormous liquidity breaches at his bank a year before the financial crash.
Mr Sugarman, whose warning were ignored by the Central Bank, gave an address (above) to MEPs last week and earlier today launched his book The Whistleblower, published with the help of Luke Flanagan MEP, in Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2.
.@whistleirl “What I did was report a crime…” Resigned, went into central bank reported it, a crime involving billions, nothing happened.
— Seanán Kerr (@seanan_kerr) December 2, 2016
Those who wish can buy the book, priced €3.75, a on Smashwords here
Transcript via Oireachtas.ie
Pics: Smashwords and Denis pⓐrfёnov
Thanks Richard Farrell
Of this brief Rogue One twerkathon, visual effects artist Nicholas King, who made it, sez:
Wrap parties are always necessary, especially if the film was shot on a beautiful island.
Results of a year long aerial project by Canadian photographer David Burdeny in which he captures (and presumably enhances) the vibrant hues of salterns in Utah, Mexico and Australia, laid out like abstract Modernist paintings.
MORE: David Burdeny: Salt
The new trailer for the upcoming new Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild. reveals a bit more of the story, and the applications for its unusual visual style.
Available in March for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U.
It MIGHT have your name on it.
Handmade by Maeve Murphy, who writes:
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