The Brexit goalposts are about to be moved. It’s definitely not cricket; it’s more like crikey!
jusayinlike
It’s more like kick the can until a tax exclusion is reached for the City of London.
SOQ
The goalposts have never stopped moving since the referendum, mainly because they could not and cannot agree on what Brexit actually is. The only thing that has changed is that May has cranked her game of chicken up a notch. Even if she wrangles a concession, in other words a fudge, and gets it through HP, there will simply not be enough time before the deadline. An extension is inevitable now.
SOQ
A little bit of humour from twitter on a Monday morning so.
When parliament sent Theresa May back to Brussels to renegotiate, the Dutch paper Trouw described it thus: “it’s a bit like the crew of the Titanic deciding, by majority vote, that the iceberg really must get out of the way.”
The Conservatives have announced they are changing their logo to a condom because it reflects more accurately the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks and gives you a sense of security while you are actually being screwed
Have a nice day.
Rob_G
That was both droll and informative, SOQ.
Dub Spot
Guardian X 2. That’s cool. I love Dolly Parton.
Dub Spot
Has anyone worn anything interesting at the Oscars yet?
rotide
Nothing interesting is allowed to happen at the oscars. Twitter has decreed it.
Bertie Blenkinsop
What a great start to the week Olivia Colman winning an Oscar is :)
eoin
I knew her when she was in Peep Show.
Starina
Yeah Billy Porter outdid ALL of the ladies. nobody even came close for looks. Also I can never figure out why Jennifer Lopez is invited to the Oscars every year.
millie st murderlark
I only wish I had his style. It was a glorious thing to behold.
Gabby
Starina: Jennifer Lopez gets invited to the Oscar ceremonies because she’s so WOW.
Charlie
‘Green book’ won best picture. Surely someone was wearing a red face. If you like stereotypes, cliches, formula, overacting and predictability, this is the movie for you.
Robert Mitchum in David Lean’s 1970 film Ryan’s Daughter had an authentic, nonstage Irish accent.
eoin
“We’re not political eunuchs” protests Micheal Martin. Oh yes you are. That “no ballers” tag will come back to haunt ye in a couple of months. If FF had supported the vote of no confidence last week because FG had broken the “no-surprise”clause in the confidence and supply agreement, then this Monday we’d be looking at a new competent health minister (or at least a health minister who understood if they didn’t pipe up when there’s a €391m overrun on the biggest single capital project in their brief, they’d be gone).
eoin
“James Reilly, the senator, has opted not to seek a Fine Gael nomination to run in the European elections in May and has instead given his backing to Frances Fitzgerald.” reports the Times Ireland.
Nice of Jimmy, he was such a contender after all! Not so nice for the people of Dublin will be lumbered with the disgraced Fitzgerald who repeatedly misled the Dail about Sgt Maurice McCabe before she was sacked.
Rob_G
“Not so nice for the people of Dublin will be lumbered with the disgraced Fitzgerald… “
Only if the people elect her, eoin, That’s how elections work…
eoin
The comment was aimed at those of a blue-ish complexion and their selection of a FG candidate for the Euro elections in Dublin in May.
eoin
“City of London police received almost £29 million in funding from banking and insurance trade bodies over the past five years in an arrangement that has been attacked as a “serious conflict of interest”.
The force, Britain’s leading constabulary for investigating economic crime, received £17 million from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and a further £11.8 million from UK Finance, the banking industry group, between 2013 and 2018, The Times can reveal.”
reports the Times today. FG wants to introduce similar controversial funding arrangements here. Of course they do.
The Old Boy
“The best little police force money can buy”, as they have been known for many years.
eoin
Anything in the Irish papers about the Nigerian presidential elections? Lots of Nigerians in Ireland. Nigeria is far closer to Ireland than, say, a certain south American country? Local and certain international media reports of dozens killed in Nigerian election violence doesn’t deserve a headline? The country is racked by corruption, especially around its oil business and the leading contenders to win the election have shady pasts. No interest at all, no? But hey, look, two people were killed on the Venezuelan/Columbia border after the USA tried to provoke unrest by pushing “aid” which the UN and Red Cross have criticised. Wasn’t this the sort of stuff envisioned in “1984”
dav
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. They have always been at war with Eurasia.
Look at the RTE World news section. Nada. Nada over the weekend neither. RTE News was on in the gym and nothing there either. “dozens killed” and a major election where one of the candidates, the underdog who has an extremely shady history, is being advised by Trump’s PR guy for $90,000 a month (and what else). It’s one to watch, but not on RTE. Results later this week.
Will any of our brave media have the honesty to mention the fact the teen killed in the Carlow car crash was illegally driving the car and to ask how he happened to be driving it? Of course not, it’s a tragedy and this isn’t the time.
Spud
Newstalk referring to him a ‘boy’ says all that we need to know.
The media will report the news… I’m sure many opinion pieces will have a go.
Some already reporting his father was jailed for illegal puppy farming last week and his mother received a suspending sentence.
dav
he’s dead, what else do you want done to him?
millie st murderlark
He shouldn’t have been in the driver’s seat of the car in the first place. At 5am.
It’s horrific and I doubt anyone is baying for the young lad’s blood, but the fact is he shouldn’t have been driving the car and he’s paid for it with his life.
It’s a horrible tragedy for his family. I’ve enormous sympathy for them.
Rep
So are we meant to be criticising him or his family or whoever Eoin is insinuating is at fault here? I mean, he is dead. One would think that that is tragedy enough. I guess not.
millie st murderlark
It’s a statement of fact. He shouldn’t have been driving the car.
Rep
And has paid the ultimate price for it.
What benefit would there be for the media to start demanding to know how he happened to be driving it as Eoin so wishes?
millie st murderlark
I don’t know. Take it up with Eoin.
eoin
Maybe one day Rep, you might have kids yourself or know someone who has, and you’ll understand why you don’t want underage kids illegally driving cars. And when a kid takes a car without the owners consent and kills himself and others, maybe the media shouldn’t convey him all shiny and chrome to Valhalla but maybe mention a few of the facts so as to deter other kids or prompt them to think about the consequences and the criticism they’ll face for their actions.
Rep
I have kids thanks. These parents have to bury their child, they don’t need his name blackened all over the media within hours of finding this out. At the very least let them have some time to grieve and to bury him before getting on your high horse.
gobbledy
How do you know what he should or shouldn’t have been doing? For all you know he could have been bringing an injured person to hospital
Probably trying to sell a few dogs though in fairness
Spaghetti Hoop
Five teenagers in a car, driving at speed through the boreens of Carlow on a foggy night at 5am? It doesn’t take an investigative journalist to figure this one out.
RIP poor kid.
gobbledy
Go on then Miss Marple we are all agog
Spaghetti Hoop
I’m not Miss Marple or any such hobby detective. It was a reckless trip that ended in death and injury. That poor child suffered terribly on Friday when his father was jailed and mother incriminated for severe animal abuse. Her sentence was only suspended because there were children at home in her care. But you’re fine with making the above comments about him “selling dogs” and “not driving the car again”. How would you like that said against a member of your family?
rotide
Jesus christ Eoin
rodger rodger
Imagine the savings in not jailing criminals
At over a grand a week per SB they can fund the difference needed to ensure the children hospital can finally be built on time and even have a few bob left over for a lavish hooley
The Brexit goalposts are about to be moved. It’s definitely not cricket; it’s more like crikey!
It’s more like kick the can until a tax exclusion is reached for the City of London.
The goalposts have never stopped moving since the referendum, mainly because they could not and cannot agree on what Brexit actually is. The only thing that has changed is that May has cranked her game of chicken up a notch. Even if she wrangles a concession, in other words a fudge, and gets it through HP, there will simply not be enough time before the deadline. An extension is inevitable now.
A little bit of humour from twitter on a Monday morning so.
When parliament sent Theresa May back to Brussels to renegotiate, the Dutch paper Trouw described it thus: “it’s a bit like the crew of the Titanic deciding, by majority vote, that the iceberg really must get out of the way.”
The Conservatives have announced they are changing their logo to a condom because it reflects more accurately the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks and gives you a sense of security while you are actually being screwed
Have a nice day.
That was both droll and informative, SOQ.
Guardian X 2. That’s cool. I love Dolly Parton.
Has anyone worn anything interesting at the Oscars yet?
Nothing interesting is allowed to happen at the oscars. Twitter has decreed it.
What a great start to the week Olivia Colman winning an Oscar is :)
I knew her when she was in Peep Show.
Yeah Billy Porter outdid ALL of the ladies. nobody even came close for looks. Also I can never figure out why Jennifer Lopez is invited to the Oscars every year.
I only wish I had his style. It was a glorious thing to behold.
Starina: Jennifer Lopez gets invited to the Oscar ceremonies because she’s so WOW.
‘Green book’ won best picture. Surely someone was wearing a red face. If you like stereotypes, cliches, formula, overacting and predictability, this is the movie for you.
eyy, fuggedaboudit
That’s why I liked it so.
You’ll enjoy ‘Far and Away’ so https://youtu.be/KUc2fsZDZZk
Robert Mitchum in David Lean’s 1970 film Ryan’s Daughter had an authentic, nonstage Irish accent.
“We’re not political eunuchs” protests Micheal Martin. Oh yes you are. That “no ballers” tag will come back to haunt ye in a couple of months. If FF had supported the vote of no confidence last week because FG had broken the “no-surprise”clause in the confidence and supply agreement, then this Monday we’d be looking at a new competent health minister (or at least a health minister who understood if they didn’t pipe up when there’s a €391m overrun on the biggest single capital project in their brief, they’d be gone).
“James Reilly, the senator, has opted not to seek a Fine Gael nomination to run in the European elections in May and has instead given his backing to Frances Fitzgerald.” reports the Times Ireland.
Nice of Jimmy, he was such a contender after all! Not so nice for the people of Dublin will be lumbered with the disgraced Fitzgerald who repeatedly misled the Dail about Sgt Maurice McCabe before she was sacked.
“Not so nice for the people of Dublin will be lumbered with the disgraced Fitzgerald… “
Only if the people elect her, eoin, That’s how elections work…
The comment was aimed at those of a blue-ish complexion and their selection of a FG candidate for the Euro elections in Dublin in May.
“City of London police received almost £29 million in funding from banking and insurance trade bodies over the past five years in an arrangement that has been attacked as a “serious conflict of interest”.
The force, Britain’s leading constabulary for investigating economic crime, received £17 million from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and a further £11.8 million from UK Finance, the banking industry group, between 2013 and 2018, The Times can reveal.”
reports the Times today. FG wants to introduce similar controversial funding arrangements here. Of course they do.
“The best little police force money can buy”, as they have been known for many years.
Anything in the Irish papers about the Nigerian presidential elections? Lots of Nigerians in Ireland. Nigeria is far closer to Ireland than, say, a certain south American country? Local and certain international media reports of dozens killed in Nigerian election violence doesn’t deserve a headline? The country is racked by corruption, especially around its oil business and the leading contenders to win the election have shady pasts. No interest at all, no? But hey, look, two people were killed on the Venezuelan/Columbia border after the USA tried to provoke unrest by pushing “aid” which the UN and Red Cross have criticised. Wasn’t this the sort of stuff envisioned in “1984”
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. They have always been at war with Eurasia.
Nice
RTE have and are reporting on it.
Look at the RTE World news section. Nada. Nada over the weekend neither. RTE News was on in the gym and nothing there either. “dozens killed” and a major election where one of the candidates, the underdog who has an extremely shady history, is being advised by Trump’s PR guy for $90,000 a month (and what else). It’s one to watch, but not on RTE. Results later this week.
https://www.rte.ie/news/player/2019/0223/21516529-counting-under-way-in-nigeria-elections-for-new-president-and-national-assembly/
Does that report from 23/2 refer to the “dozens killed” which world media reported in 24/2?
No.
That would be impossible. Unless RTE have a time machine.
Irish Times mention this violence as well as previous days having multiple articles about the election, delays to the election, etc.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/multiple-fatalities-in-election-day-violence-in-nigeria-1.3804096?mode=amp
Simple answer: yes the Irish papers are talking about the Nigerian election.
Independent too.
https://m.independent.ie/world-news/explosions-and-delays-mark-nigerias-presidential-election-37845747.html
Will any of our brave media have the honesty to mention the fact the teen killed in the Carlow car crash was illegally driving the car and to ask how he happened to be driving it? Of course not, it’s a tragedy and this isn’t the time.
Newstalk referring to him a ‘boy’ says all that we need to know.
The media will report the news… I’m sure many opinion pieces will have a go.
Some already reporting his father was jailed for illegal puppy farming last week and his mother received a suspending sentence.
he’s dead, what else do you want done to him?
He shouldn’t have been in the driver’s seat of the car in the first place. At 5am.
It’s horrific and I doubt anyone is baying for the young lad’s blood, but the fact is he shouldn’t have been driving the car and he’s paid for it with his life.
It’s a horrible tragedy for his family. I’ve enormous sympathy for them.
So are we meant to be criticising him or his family or whoever Eoin is insinuating is at fault here? I mean, he is dead. One would think that that is tragedy enough. I guess not.
It’s a statement of fact. He shouldn’t have been driving the car.
And has paid the ultimate price for it.
What benefit would there be for the media to start demanding to know how he happened to be driving it as Eoin so wishes?
I don’t know. Take it up with Eoin.
Maybe one day Rep, you might have kids yourself or know someone who has, and you’ll understand why you don’t want underage kids illegally driving cars. And when a kid takes a car without the owners consent and kills himself and others, maybe the media shouldn’t convey him all shiny and chrome to Valhalla but maybe mention a few of the facts so as to deter other kids or prompt them to think about the consequences and the criticism they’ll face for their actions.
I have kids thanks. These parents have to bury their child, they don’t need his name blackened all over the media within hours of finding this out. At the very least let them have some time to grieve and to bury him before getting on your high horse.
How do you know what he should or shouldn’t have been doing? For all you know he could have been bringing an injured person to hospital
Probably trying to sell a few dogs though in fairness
Five teenagers in a car, driving at speed through the boreens of Carlow on a foggy night at 5am? It doesn’t take an investigative journalist to figure this one out.
RIP poor kid.
Go on then Miss Marple we are all agog
I’m not Miss Marple or any such hobby detective. It was a reckless trip that ended in death and injury. That poor child suffered terribly on Friday when his father was jailed and mother incriminated for severe animal abuse. Her sentence was only suspended because there were children at home in her care. But you’re fine with making the above comments about him “selling dogs” and “not driving the car again”. How would you like that said against a member of your family?
Jesus christ Eoin
Imagine the savings in not jailing criminals
At over a grand a week per SB they can fund the difference needed to ensure the children hospital can finally be built on time and even have a few bob left over for a lavish hooley