Yearly Archives: 2017

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Businessman Denis O’Brien

RTÉ reports:

The High Court has ruled that businessman Denis O’Brien should pay all the costs of his failed action over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs.

Mr O’Brien took his case against the Clerk of the Dáil and the State over comments made by Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy and Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty in the Dáil in 2015.

He wanted the court to reprimand the TDs and he claimed they had interfered with a court case he was taking against RTÉ.

…This morning, the judge [Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh] ruled that the facts of the case were unusual and had some degree of novelty as well as being of some public importance.

…But she ruled there was “an insufficient degree of novelty” to cause her to depart from the normal rule where the losing party pays the costs of a case.

Denis O’Brien must pay High Court costs (RTE)

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From left: Tom Geraghty, General Secretary of  Public Service Executive Union; William Campbell.

Episode 60 of the hard-hitting Here’s How podcast presented by journalist William Campbell features a combustible encounter with union boss Tom Geraghty.

William writes:

Tom  is the boss of the Public Service Executive Union. He wants a rollback of the Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements, with full pay restoration for his members. Is it justified?

Listen here

Here’s How

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Sunday evening.

Dingle, County Kerry.

Maria Brosnan writes:

Had to share this video of, what was without doubt, the highlight of [music and arts festival] Féile Na Bealtaine in Dingle.

On Sunday evening, outside Dick Mack’s pub, the secret location for the Oíche Bealtaine performance was revealed – we had to go to a field out the back of Curran’s pub off Main Street.

We arrived into a pagan world – full of straw-men structures and performers dressed in animal skins. Any fear of a reenactment of The Wicker Man or Burn the Witch was allayed when the music kicked off and the crowd joined in the pagan rave.

A great way to kick off the Summer.

Féile Na Bealtaine

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Patrick Kelleher – Dublin electronica

What you may need to know…

01. Progressing from synth-pop and new-wave inflections that earned his second album a Choice Prize nomination, Patrick Kelleher’s new material apparently veers into acid house and early techno for inspiration.

02. Over the years, Kelleher has trod the boards with acts like Future Islands, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, A Flock of Seagulls and Dan Deacon, performing live with collaborator Brian Conniffe (Nurse With Wound).

03. Streaming above is the video for Miracle Candle, taken from the aforementioned Choice nominee, Golden Syrup.

04. Catch him this Thursday as part of Bodytonic’s new weekly series at the Bernard Shaw in Dublin, 8pm, free in.

Thoughts: A purveyor of quality Irish synth-explorations, Kelleher’s lateral moves into dingier territory ought not disappoint.

Patrick Kelleher and his Cold Dead Hands