35 thoughts on “De Wednesday Papers”

  1. Giggidygoo

    Oh look! Another ‘Varadkar says’ front page piece of ‘news’. The presstitutes have been busy this past 10 days of Christmas, copying and pasting press releases.

    1. Ron

      The recent Disclosures Tribunal taught us all many things but mostly it taught us that most journalists in Ireland are boo boos. The lowest of the low.

    2. MaryLou's ArmaLite

      Your obsession with Leo is pathetic, all that hate and rage, it does nothing, but it will make you ill.

          2. Ron

            @Mary Lou. Show us on the doll where they touched you. Is that why your obsessed with SF. They be touching you a lot more when there in Govt.

      2. Giggidygoo

        The uneducated one arises. You seem to have an obsession with Vacron yourself. You also seem to have an obsession commenting on posters, rather than the subject. You’re a poor excuse of a Leotard to be honest.

        1. MaryLou's ArmaLite

          I’ve an obsession with commenting on posters? Jesus you shinnerbots don’t like this 2 way interaction thing at all. Ye would only love if all message boards were just pro SF/IRA propaganda. Ye are just little fascists trying to manipulate people with your bile and hate.

          A tip for the future dipsh1t, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

  3. Shayna

    5% increase on housing prices predicted? Great news for landlords – not so much for tenants. Social housing and actuating is someone’s job – who knew?

    1. pat the baker

      Exactly
      Still waiting for the reply to the letter she handed to the pope when he visited
      Maybe a question in the dail is needed
      Also listened on Sunday to a rather distraught story on the radio about a single mother in 1956 who died giving birth on the side of the road
      Refused treatment by 3 hospitals these were state hospitals run by state and staffed by the church
      A policy which was not just church but also state refused her any treatment and the nuns hands were tied by state also by church
      Then as they tried to get her buried her body was refused
      A mêlée broke out a compromise was made
      And the poor woman was finally buried but in a different parish
      The baby girl taken then to work in laundry and 50 years later plus still institutionised
      The nun in the last hospital told her story of how haunted she was for refusing this dying woman as she tried to get this woman treated
      She was stopped by management from saving that woman’s life
      Only half the stories of these days has been told and the state has passed on full responsibility on the church
      Zappone has dodged her responsibility over this and due to the fact the state are as equally guilty for these crimes her behaviour is simply not good enough
      Maybe someone should organise a vigil outside Zappone’s home praying for her soul

  5. Dub Spot

    And yes, day 2 into an Ireland with abortion… and I see the sun rises again over Dublin (much to the fury of the Journal commentariat – more prayers needed obviously).

    They’ll be back in school soon.

      1. Cian

        It is a bizarre situation. However there are huge differences in numbers: providing free abortions for all (100s-1,000s per year) versus free contraception for all (1,000,000s per year).
        – contraception @€100 x 1.2 million women = €120million;
        – abortion @€450 x 10,000 women = €4.5million

    2. pat the baker

      We do and thank god but for those who require surgery like Fatal foetal abnormality or other crises the reality is far different
      And those reasons I voted for abortion
      It will be years but when that penny drops

  6. Eoin

    Whoisht Shayna, that’s just a prediction from Davy in a report for the MyHome.ie website.

    Remember four months ago when Davy gave property company Glenveagh a price target of €1.47?
    https://www.davy.ie/research/public/article.htm?id=ST2_10621_1.xml.htm

    This morning, it’s struggling to maintain 70c.

    In other words, prices *could* rise in 2019, they could just as easily fall in 2019 (imagine if the govt restored stamp duty with rates up to 9%, like pre-2010, wha?) but whatever they’re predicted to do, it doesn’t justify a press headline “prices for new homes *set* to rise by 5%”

    Remember though, the Irish Examiner is now owned by the Irish Times; the IT also owns MyHome.ie and the report being promoted on the front page of the IE today is from MyHome (doesn’t mention that relationship, obvs). It’s a particularly insidious piece of undeclared media cross-promotion.

  7. Eoin

    Isn’t that a weird story on the front page of the London-based Irish World?

    EU citizens have to register and pay to remain in the UK.

    “Unless they comply they will lose their rights and homes”

  8. Eoin

    “Mark Griffin, the secretary-general, told the public accounts committee (Pac): “We did not do a cost-benefit analysis per se, but we did do a value for money review in 2007. A formal cost-benefit analysis was not done but a very detailed review was undertaken.”

    reports the Times Ireland about the unilateral decision by the minister Denis Naughten to extend by 6-10 years a “lucrative” state contract to David McCourt’s Enet in 2017 (McCourt subsequently sold Enet to the a fund backed by the state, part in 2917 and the remainder in 2018).

    When a civil servant uses the term “per se”, you just know they’re spoofing! The public accounts committee is still examining this transaction.

    1. johnny

      Fascinating case in NY involving state contracts and Digicel.

      CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT
      IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
      V
      DIGICEL-HAITI, NATCOM S.A., and
      THE GOVERNMENT OF HAITI
      Case No. 18-cv-7340
      (case docs linked)

      “1. Plaintiffs bring this action against the defendants for entering into a horizontal price fixing agreement in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act of 1980, Section 6(a) of the Foreign Case 1:18-cv-07340 Document 1 Filed 12/24/18 Page 1 of 54 PageID #: 1”

      “266. Defendants representations regarding the fees collected were false. The fees are the result of unlawful conduct of Defendants who entered into horizontal price-fixing agreements which are memorialized by two circulars and a presidential order issued in contravention of the laws of Haiti.

      267. Defendants collected the fees under the ruse that they are taxes levied to fund a free and compulsory education program in Haiti. Contrary to the representations made by Defendants, the fees collected are converted to the personal and private use of the Defendants”

      This is a ‘scoop’ for Broadsheet as it has not been mentioned anywhere else,I’m happy to have a go on a summary, but as a non lawyer, its first thing here so just grabbing coffee,speaking of which -Legal Coffee Drinker?

      1. Eoin

        That’s awful Johnny, so Digicel is being accused of ripping off some of the poorest people in the world, telling them they’re going to use the allegedly price-fixed phone charges to fund education projects in Haiti, but instead, Digicel is accused of just pocketing the money.

        How could this be true. Isn’t Denis O’Brien lauded as one of the world’s greatest philanthropists.

        1. Johnny

          Indeed Eoin,didn’t his newest charitable enterprise just get an award for protecting journalists,with the irish govt supporting it/him with 500,000!
          Digicels annual report is festooned with smiling people from the third world-little did the know about these latest allegations!
          Caffeinated will log into court system and see what else has been filed-attemp a summary as omg a “post” so hang in there:)

  9. Eoin

    The nincompoop Shane Ross has abandoned plans for a law to enshrine a 1,5m overtaking distance between vehicles and bicycles. It’s “too difficult” to legislate for says Ross in the Irish Times today.

    This comes a day or two after politicians claimed they can delay Ross’s flagship Judicial Appointments Bill until Easter. Three years after taking the ministership, with his big oidea being the reform of judicial appointments, the Bill is still stuck and Shane is still waving through judicial appointments even though he threatened to withdraw his support at Cabinet for judicial approvals.

    He really is some spoofer.

    1. Joe Small

      No fan of Ross but if the Attorney-General says something is a non-starter that its effectively dead. How would you begin to enforce a 1.5 metre overtaking law?

      1. Eoin

        “How would you begin to enforce a 1.5 metre overtaking law?”

        Pretty much the same way you enforce a tailgating law.

        Also, where a car does hit a cyclist while overtaking, an accident investigator will be able to examine the distance, perhaps by examining CCTV or traffic cameras in an urban setting, dash cam footage and statements from witnesses as to the position of the car and cyclist, and maybe tyre marks.It also gives the Gardai grounds to pull the driver over and give them a warning. You mightn’t be able to tell the distance between car and cyclist to the precise centimetre but, you’d be able to tell if it was a metre or a metre and a half; how many cyclists have been nearly clipped with a car passing just 30cm away? If you contrast with say, speeding laws, you can’t precisely measure speed either, there’s a 10% margin of error. Bottom line, if 1,5 metres was introduced, cyclists would feel safer and drivers would think twice. It might be difficult to enforce, but no more so than say, tailgating.

        Ross doesn’t have the political capital, belief or gumption to get this law through. He’s a first class spoofer whose ill-deserved assuredness (whether it’s praising Anglo or claiming credit for Stepaside) could only be swallowed by the most gullible in Dublin Rathdown.

        1. Cian

          Pretty much the same way you enforce a tailgating law.
          Do we have a tailgating law? I don’t think so… as it would be impossible to enforce… much like an overtaking distance law.

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