Tories walk now leaving the arithmetic of the HP very had to figure. I suppose those in strong remain seats now feel they have a better chance outside the government than in. No matter what way Brexit goes, the British political landscape is going to look quite different after all this chaos.
Formerly known as @ireland.com
Vlad must be happy with the chaos he caused – divided Britain, divided Europe….
millie st murderlark
He chuckles merrily to himself as he eats the still beating heart of an elk he shot himself while barechested and exuding male virility and strength.
Janet, I ate my avatar
I know it’s wrong but that discription was hot
Junkface
Ha ha
Papi
Do you need the smelling salts again, Millicent?
Nigel
Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.
Junkface
Putin has done a lot of damage for a country with a smaller economy than Italy. And none of it would have been possible without the emergence of social media inventions from the USA, the irony.
Nigel
Asymmetrical warfare FTW.
micky motiff
Strange that Italy has a larger economy than a superpower
I would say the way the Italian banks are the treat of their collapse could spark another recession
Nigel
Hey, Millie, and anyone else interested in an undeservedly obscure bit of Irish non-fiction, just finished this week The Retrospections Of Dorothea Herbert, the collected memoir of a rector’s daughter who grew up in North Tipp, 1767-1829. She describes her childhood and early adulthood, country life and the social scene, until a disastrous disappointment in love, and it’s absolutely riveting. Very funny in parts, very alarming in others, and very sad. It’s almost like the first draft of a Jane Austen novel if she decided to do a bit of Irish rustic realism, except you can occasionally drive past some of the locations. Very highly reccommended.
oooh thanks for tip
what ever happened to our book corner ?
Janet, I ate my avatar
doing a little project on seaweed at the mo,
any obscure images, poem, puns or tales ?
Spaghetti Hoop
I’m ‘wracking’ my brains Janet.
Andyourpointiswhatexactly?
All I can think of is that DISGUSTING dessert my great-aunt used to make from Carrageen Moss. Have you read into it? BLEURGH.
Janet, I ate my avatar
yeah we gifted it to the Jamaicans
Janet, I ate my avatar
“Seaweed is really good for you. If you’re ever in trouble, sea kelp.”
Nigel
I’m trying to remember…
Why did the lobster blush?
Because the seaweed.
Papi
They put seaweed in the stout in Biddy Early’s brewery in Clare.
Janet, I ate my avatar
what could go wrong, double laxative
Nigel
My wife’s family lived in Connemara for years, so we make a broth with Carrageen Moss for the flu. We haven’t had to make it for a long while, I think we’re resisting the bugs just to avoid having to make it again.
gobbledy
Sounds as dull as dillisk water Janet
Andyourpointiswhatexactly?
I saw on Twitter last night that some Russian guy who speaks Irish was appointed to some job or other in the West. Heh. Amazing recall. Anyway, the point of this wibbling ramble is that he called his cat Vladimir Púisín.
Giggidygoo
So Simon ‘Bring it on’ Harris managed to get just 58 to support him, out of almost 160 TDs.
Big swinging Michilín
Daisy Chainsaw
Facilitated by the eunuchs and concubines in Fianna Failure who equate abstention with opposition.
eoin
53 in support of the motion, 58 against and 37 abstentions, that’s 148 out of 158 (the Ceann Comhairle would be one of the missing 10). Who are the other missing nine? Inner city lefty Maureen O’Sullivan is one, where was she? Who are the other eight?
The full voting position is at the bottom of this link.
The midwife Philomena Canning was subject to a witch hunt by the HSE, funded by the tax payer. All because she wanted to set up a birth centre and the medical establishment wanted to retain control over pregnant women.
f_lawless
this makes for a compelling few minutes viewing! https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1098500142951477248
“This footage of an unaired Tucker Carlson segment is a stupendous illustration of how free market media is not free and simply cannot accommodate a genuine leftist who challenges its corporate interests. Carlson wanted to control the opposition; instead he’s reduced to apoplexy”
Nigel
And wasn’t he clever to have someone record the footage while it was being taped?
Junkface
That video was great. Tucker Carlson is probably the worst hack for sale in American news media. He’s just repulsive. Everything his guest said was correct.
eoin
The narrative about the collapse of the Hutch trial is changing.
Yesterday, it was because the lead Garda had died. What rubbish. That such a huge investigation would hinge on one Garda, when there was a team of what, 30 Gardai, and the lead Garda was reporting to more senior Gardai with progress and administative matters.
Today, the narrative is shifting to the evidence. The main evidence was the photo in the Sunday World which we’ve all seen (it’s on the front page of the Indo). Is the person in the pic Patrick Hutch? Many people say “yes”, Patrick Hutch denies it. But again, why not test that pic in open court before a jury?
Last year, it was “emails” amongst investigating Gardai that halted the trial. What was in the emails? It’s my hypothesis the emails showed an attempt at collusion by Gardai to agree to identify the man in the pic as the suspect, Patrick Hutch. Or, it was an attempt at collusion to introduce doubt about the identity. Either way, we now deserve to see the emails.
A huge criminal investigation and trial has collapsed with the prime suspect walking free and the rest of us looking at a photo and seeing the similarities with the suspect, and wondering why you couldn’t prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt that the pic is the suspect. We’re paying a huge financial and social cost for the collapse and we deserve answers.
eoin
The GSOC investigation is an abuse of process. It’s been initiated under s91 of the 2005 GS Act.
“If a complaint concerns the death of, or serious harm to, a person as a result of Garda operations or while in the custody or care of the Garda Síochána, the Ombudsman Commission shall immediately direct a designated officer to— (a) examine the complaint for the purpose of recommending whether the complaint should be investigated under section 95 or 98 , and (b) report his or her recommendation to the Commission as soon as practicable.”
This section is for supposed to be for deaths when someone dies in a Garda chase or in Garda custody, not a suicide by a Garda in his office. The GSOC investigation is nothing more than an attempt to cover up or delay exposing what was in the emails.
Bodger
eoin, I might use some of these questions in a post if that suits: would that be possible?
eoin
Work away Bodger! I wonder how you would get an estimate of the cost of the Garda investigation and the DPP prosecution and if the suspect may now claim compo for being incarcerated for a lengthy period in advance of a trial that has collapsed.
Bodger
Thanks, eoin, I’ll throw that in also.
gobbledy
Try working in some Hillary Clinton angle too
eoin
Squeaky bum time at Davy, the finance people.
According to the Times Ireland
“Patrick Kearney, a property developer, alleged in a case issued in the commercial court that he had agreed to sell Anglo Irish Bank callable subordinated floating bonds with a par value of €27 million for €5.58 million based on the advice of Davy…He alleged that the third party had offered to buy the bonds for 32 cents in the euro, but claimed that Davy persuaded him that the original deal for 20¼ cents in the euro had been agreed. Mr Kearney further alleged that Davy had a conflict of interest in the transaction. Davy denied all allegations ”
Paddy settled with Davy in private over the court proceedins but the Central Bank is examining the matter and is expected to report shortly on the conduct of Davy which could, potentially, “be stripped of regulatory approval” says the Times Ireland.
Aren’t the bonds in question above, now worth 100c in the euro? Didn’t the special liquidators at IBRC sell junior bonds at IBRC in 2015 for around 80c in the euro? Well done Davy, maybe you should stick with RTE for your questionable predictions and analyses for the plebs.
eoin
Irish Times is now selling an average of less than 50,000 copies a day at full price.
In a country with a population of nearly 5 million.
Ha-ha!
The circulation figures for the second six months of 2018 have been published. Here’s the Irish Times.
INM’s Sunday World is probably the worst performing paper in 2018. Mind you, it has stiff competition from the Sun and Mirror, and the Star (which it 50% owns).
The next time you see the execrable Ben Lowry on Irish TV spouting his opinion about unionism and the North, remember his paper, the News Letter (where Ben is the deputy editor) has a circulation of 12,499, around a third of the Irish News and the Belfast Telegraph. Even unionists don’t buy his opinions.
Tories walk now leaving the arithmetic of the HP very had to figure. I suppose those in strong remain seats now feel they have a better chance outside the government than in. No matter what way Brexit goes, the British political landscape is going to look quite different after all this chaos.
Vlad must be happy with the chaos he caused – divided Britain, divided Europe….
He chuckles merrily to himself as he eats the still beating heart of an elk he shot himself while barechested and exuding male virility and strength.
I know it’s wrong but that discription was hot
Ha ha
Do you need the smelling salts again, Millicent?
Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.
Putin has done a lot of damage for a country with a smaller economy than Italy. And none of it would have been possible without the emergence of social media inventions from the USA, the irony.
Asymmetrical warfare FTW.
Strange that Italy has a larger economy than a superpower
I would say the way the Italian banks are the treat of their collapse could spark another recession
Hey, Millie, and anyone else interested in an undeservedly obscure bit of Irish non-fiction, just finished this week The Retrospections Of Dorothea Herbert, the collected memoir of a rector’s daughter who grew up in North Tipp, 1767-1829. She describes her childhood and early adulthood, country life and the social scene, until a disastrous disappointment in love, and it’s absolutely riveting. Very funny in parts, very alarming in others, and very sad. It’s almost like the first draft of a Jane Austen novel if she decided to do a bit of Irish rustic realism, except you can occasionally drive past some of the locations. Very highly reccommended.
Not much detail here, and it’s sadly out of print, but I got mine from the library:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Herbert
oooh thanks for tip
what ever happened to our book corner ?
doing a little project on seaweed at the mo,
any obscure images, poem, puns or tales ?
I’m ‘wracking’ my brains Janet.
All I can think of is that DISGUSTING dessert my great-aunt used to make from Carrageen Moss. Have you read into it? BLEURGH.
yeah we gifted it to the Jamaicans
“Seaweed is really good for you. If you’re ever in trouble, sea kelp.”
I’m trying to remember…
Why did the lobster blush?
Because the seaweed.
They put seaweed in the stout in Biddy Early’s brewery in Clare.
what could go wrong, double laxative
My wife’s family lived in Connemara for years, so we make a broth with Carrageen Moss for the flu. We haven’t had to make it for a long while, I think we’re resisting the bugs just to avoid having to make it again.
Sounds as dull as dillisk water Janet
I saw on Twitter last night that some Russian guy who speaks Irish was appointed to some job or other in the West. Heh. Amazing recall. Anyway, the point of this wibbling ramble is that he called his cat Vladimir Púisín.
So Simon ‘Bring it on’ Harris managed to get just 58 to support him, out of almost 160 TDs.
Big swinging Michilín
Facilitated by the eunuchs and concubines in Fianna Failure who equate abstention with opposition.
53 in support of the motion, 58 against and 37 abstentions, that’s 148 out of 158 (the Ceann Comhairle would be one of the missing 10). Who are the other missing nine? Inner city lefty Maureen O’Sullivan is one, where was she? Who are the other eight?
The full voting position is at the bottom of this link.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-02-20/33/
The midwife Philomena Canning was subject to a witch hunt by the HSE, funded by the tax payer. All because she wanted to set up a birth centre and the medical establishment wanted to retain control over pregnant women.
this makes for a compelling few minutes viewing!
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1098500142951477248
“This footage of an unaired Tucker Carlson segment is a stupendous illustration of how free market media is not free and simply cannot accommodate a genuine leftist who challenges its corporate interests. Carlson wanted to control the opposition; instead he’s reduced to apoplexy”
And wasn’t he clever to have someone record the footage while it was being taped?
That video was great. Tucker Carlson is probably the worst hack for sale in American news media. He’s just repulsive. Everything his guest said was correct.
The narrative about the collapse of the Hutch trial is changing.
Yesterday, it was because the lead Garda had died. What rubbish. That such a huge investigation would hinge on one Garda, when there was a team of what, 30 Gardai, and the lead Garda was reporting to more senior Gardai with progress and administative matters.
Today, the narrative is shifting to the evidence. The main evidence was the photo in the Sunday World which we’ve all seen (it’s on the front page of the Indo). Is the person in the pic Patrick Hutch? Many people say “yes”, Patrick Hutch denies it. But again, why not test that pic in open court before a jury?
Last year, it was “emails” amongst investigating Gardai that halted the trial. What was in the emails? It’s my hypothesis the emails showed an attempt at collusion by Gardai to agree to identify the man in the pic as the suspect, Patrick Hutch. Or, it was an attempt at collusion to introduce doubt about the identity. Either way, we now deserve to see the emails.
A huge criminal investigation and trial has collapsed with the prime suspect walking free and the rest of us looking at a photo and seeing the similarities with the suspect, and wondering why you couldn’t prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt that the pic is the suspect. We’re paying a huge financial and social cost for the collapse and we deserve answers.
The GSOC investigation is an abuse of process. It’s been initiated under s91 of the 2005 GS Act.
“If a complaint concerns the death of, or serious harm to, a person as a result of Garda operations or while in the custody or care of the Garda Síochána, the Ombudsman Commission shall immediately direct a designated officer to— (a) examine the complaint for the purpose of recommending whether the complaint should be investigated under section 95 or 98 , and (b) report his or her recommendation to the Commission as soon as practicable.”
This section is for supposed to be for deaths when someone dies in a Garda chase or in Garda custody, not a suicide by a Garda in his office. The GSOC investigation is nothing more than an attempt to cover up or delay exposing what was in the emails.
eoin, I might use some of these questions in a post if that suits: would that be possible?
Work away Bodger! I wonder how you would get an estimate of the cost of the Garda investigation and the DPP prosecution and if the suspect may now claim compo for being incarcerated for a lengthy period in advance of a trial that has collapsed.
Thanks, eoin, I’ll throw that in also.
Try working in some Hillary Clinton angle too
Squeaky bum time at Davy, the finance people.
According to the Times Ireland
“Patrick Kearney, a property developer, alleged in a case issued in the commercial court that he had agreed to sell Anglo Irish Bank callable subordinated floating bonds with a par value of €27 million for €5.58 million based on the advice of Davy…He alleged that the third party had offered to buy the bonds for 32 cents in the euro, but claimed that Davy persuaded him that the original deal for 20¼ cents in the euro had been agreed. Mr Kearney further alleged that Davy had a conflict of interest in the transaction. Davy denied all allegations ”
Paddy settled with Davy in private over the court proceedins but the Central Bank is examining the matter and is expected to report shortly on the conduct of Davy which could, potentially, “be stripped of regulatory approval” says the Times Ireland.
Aren’t the bonds in question above, now worth 100c in the euro? Didn’t the special liquidators at IBRC sell junior bonds at IBRC in 2015 for around 80c in the euro? Well done Davy, maybe you should stick with RTE for your questionable predictions and analyses for the plebs.
Irish Times is now selling an average of less than 50,000 copies a day at full price.
In a country with a population of nearly 5 million.
Ha-ha!
The circulation figures for the second six months of 2018 have been published. Here’s the Irish Times.
https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49256125.pdf
As expected, the SBP is now selling less than 25,000 copies at full price.
https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49256529.pdf
The Indo is selling just 63,000 copies a day at full price.
https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49255849.pdf
The Sindo remains Ireland’s biggest selling newspaper, selling 163,000 every Sunday at full price.That explains a lot about this place….
https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49256024.pdf
INM’s Sunday World is probably the worst performing paper in 2018. Mind you, it has stiff competition from the Sun and Mirror, and the Star (which it 50% owns).
https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49256244.pdf
The next time you see the execrable Ben Lowry on Irish TV spouting his opinion about unionism and the North, remember his paper, the News Letter (where Ben is the deputy editor) has a circulation of 12,499, around a third of the Irish News and the Belfast Telegraph. Even unionists don’t buy his opinions.
https://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/49250624.pdf