Will the Peacock Taoiseach be popping in to A&E today or will it be
Carry On Doctor Leo ?
The absolute shame of the hospital bed crisis laid bare.
EIGHT days on a trolley.
The clown should hang his head in shame.
It just paves the way for a return to the “good old days” of ration books come brexit
Charger Salmons
Blighty sneezes and Ireland catches a cold.
Or in the case of no-deal Brexit a bad dose of pneumonia.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
bisted
…what…is that you sniveling Charger…stiff upper lip man!
Charger Salmons
Me ?
Charger ?
Snivel ?
I fear you must have the wrong chap,old boy.
I’m my usual tickety-boo self taking out the trash on here.
bisted
…ok…but none of this talk of blighty in less than rude health…this place is crawling with natives…
Paul Revered
“Wake up sheeple”
eoin
The Residential Tenancies Board, headed by Rosalind Carroll, publishes its rents report for the first quarter of 2019. It’s late.
19 new rent pressure zones (thanks Roisin Shortall for prompting the intro of RPZ legislation). They should have been declared last month.
Rents in Dublin up 9%. Average rent is now €1,662.
TLDR? Murphy should go. He should take Rosalind Carroll and the RTB board with him.
GiggidyGoo
And the media spin on the ever increasing house prices – “the ‘rate’ of increase has slowed to a fifth of its previous”
The ‘rate’ of increase?
The house prices are still rising on a monthly basis. I don’t see any reference to mirrored pay increase rates.
But the media are trying to hoodwink us into thinking that house prices are on the way down.
Cian
Except in Dublin where prices have dropped for a second quarter.
€2,500 fine for the Irish Daily Mirror journalist, who was convicted of contempt after naming one of the killers in the Lucan child murder case on a radio programme.
€10,000 for the Cork radio station.
On Thursday this week, we can expect the publishers of the Irish Daily Mail and its editor to be in court to answer contempt proceedings taken by the DPP about the reporting of the Lucan child murder trial.
And on 30 July, we’ll have the publishers of the Indo, its then editor (since promoted to group editor) and a journalist in court to answer contempt proceedings taken by the DPP about the reporting of a rape trial last year.
And over the weekend, you may have seen similarly worded apologies in the Irish Times, Irish Examiner and Echo to a trainee priest who was the subject of fairly lurid reporting last year. The Echo apology included
“The Evening Echo accepts that there was no truth in and no basis for this allegation.
The Evening Echo apologises to Conor Gannon for stating that he was expelled or suspended from the College.
The Evening Echo acknowledges that the article was false and should not have been published.
The Evening Echo has agreed to pay damages to Conor Gannon for the upset and distress caused to him by the article.”
The trainee priest has also sued most of the other Irish press in separate proceedings which have yet to conclude.
Fills you with proud for the Irish media. But, you know, “social media flutes”….
GiggidyGoo
The Boy Harris fails once again. Any tries to quietly evade the fact that his Bring Them Home (Les Miserables?) ‘plan’ didn’t work.
eoin
Great to see our brave media selecting world events to report. Wall-to-wall coverage of Hong Kong, it’s Chinese, get over it.
What about Iran which would potentially be a far more important trading partner for Ireland, they love our beef, we love their oil. Very little reporting of events there where the US has unilaterally pulled out of a nuclear deal and then the US imposed new sanctions. Typical Trump, wha? but the US is putting pressure on the EU (us!) to follow suit, even though this is a fight between the USA and Iran.
Presumably RTE is doing much reporting on Iran because it is beholden to Washington.
Charger Salmons
And barely a mention of Macron’s Stormtroopers clubbing ordinary French citizens senseless every weekend.
Paul Revered
Great. When they are done there hopefully they will come to the north of England and other Brexit strongholds
Charger Salmons
Well done.
You see you can post something other than ” Wake up sheeple” if you put your mind to it.
Obviously I’m being generous with my use of the word mind.
Papi
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
Paul Revered
“Wake up sheep-le”
Charger Salmons
Heh,heh,heh.h.
Paul Revered
Baa baa baa
eoin
Our national center for hazing excellence is doing us proud yet again.
Not content with taking the money, no questions asked, from Chinese telecoms company Huawei which stands accused of state-level spying and whose money is no longer welcome at the likes of Oxford and Stanford where the money is seen as a way of buying influence.
Today, we learn Trinity is taking money from the base for the Kinahan drug trafficking organisation Dubai and specifically from the dictator who’s having all sorts of family difficulties, with the latest being his wife reportedly fleeing to Germany seeking asylum. One of Mo’s daughters hasn’t been seen since 2000 and another was seen last year looking heavily medicated after she was captured by Mo’s henchmen after she tried to escape. By many accounts, Dubai is a corrupt bribe-ridden poo-hole.
If Trinity wants to take money from state level spying organisations or the base for a DTO which wrecks havoc on the streets of Ireland, fine, but why is the Irish govt also giving it €50 million a year.
RTE Morning Ireland is again pairing advertising with reporting. A taxi app is trying to sell you more of its services. Cue advertising on Morning Ireland for the app, fair enough, even though the app has never advertised on Morning Ireland before. But then, Morning Ireland gives them the pride-of-place slot on the 7.50am business slot and a mention in other slots.
Is that how Ireland’s most listened to news and current affairs radio programme now works? Take an advertising slot and you’ll get an in-programme interview? It’s not just grubby, it’s Jon-Williams-level grubby.
Spud
Heard similar on Newstalk about their name change to be fair…… or fare…
snarf!
Spaghetti Hoop
Aside from it being a ridiculous name-change, RTE will take the advertising fee while there are companies wishing to pay it. Massive wage bill out at Montrose.
millie st murderlark
Aka ‘the ego tax’
SOQ
One thing I notice about the Hong Kong rioters- they really take their health and safety seriously.
Hard Hat ☑
Protective glasses ☑
Dust masks ☑
Proper length hammers ☑
Knees bends when lifting ☑
They probably applied a risk profile beforehand.
Now that is a well organised riot.
Charger Salmons
Good to see the Union Jack being flown as a symbol of defiance.
Charger Salmons
Oh,wait,that’s a symbol of oppression.
We’d best delay the call until Fintan O’Toole shares with us his opinions on the matter.
He is, after all, Leo’s Dictaphone.
Never has an instrument of communication been better named.
millie st murderlark
Morning Charger.
Foaming at the bit, are we?
Paul Revered
Baa baa baa
eoin
Larry Goodman, the glorified knackeryman pays “largely no tax” on €170m profits in 2018.
Larry didn’t amass €2.4 billion of wealth (according to the Sunday Times in March 2019, up €1.8 billion from the previous year) by not paying KPMG barrow loads of money for (lawful) tax avoidance advice, you know.
Meanwhile, how are Irish beef farmers doing again? They’re avoiding tax too, you know (by not even making minimum wage on their work)
SOQ
Interesting developments in Belfast- Belfast City Council has passed a motion to take legal action over flags being put up in parts of the city.
The motion calls on councillors to back attempts to bring a legal challenge against the Department for Infrastructure which owns the lamp posts many of these flags and banners are attached to.
Given that the now lord Mayor John Finucane (son of Pat) comes from a heavy duty legal family, it is highly likely that they will follow through to the courts.
The flying of such has been deeply unpopular in mixed areas for a very long time, especially in south Belfast, so if BCC win in court, the new PSNI chief will have his work cut out for him.
Meanwhile in the High Court, a certain ex-INM editor in chief has just commenced defamation proceedings against RTE and a Sunday Times journalist.
Did anyone go to his “Fraud Prevention Conference” last month? A total of five Gardai did, including the one making a presentation. None of them paid for it, and the Gardai had a free stand at the event. The conference doubtfully claimed it had 500+ attendees and of course it was given a high profile plug on RTE ads for interviews Morning Ireland and REDACTEDtalk. Anyone?
eoin
Meanwhile in the UK (population 65m, 13x Ireland), the BBC publishes the list of staff paid £150,000+ (€168,000) a year in the year to April 2019 (that is, for a period which ended three months ago).
John Humphrys, a titan of broadcasting whose daily 3-hour radio show gets around 5m listeners is paid £290,000 (€325,000)
Meanwhile, in Ireland, Sean O’Rourke was paid €308,964 by loss-making RTE in the year to December 2016.
(PS, if the BBC can publish presenter salaries within 3 months of the year end, why does it take loss-making RTE 22 months?)
eoin
Jebus, Graham Norton only gets £610,000 while the mediocrity on the loss-making RTE Late Late Show gets €495,000 (excluding royalties on his book which exploits the Toy Show “jumper” thing)?
And yet loss-making RTE is whinging about its sustainability……
Increasing Displacement
Unbelievable really
Charger Salmons
#despitebrexit
Japanese telecoms giant NTT Corporation has announced that they’re opening a new global HQ for their international subsidiary in London. NTT Corp has an annual revenue of over $100 billion a year and currently employs 40,000 people. The new London-based subsidiary merges three companies into an $11 billion business.
Will the Peacock Taoiseach be popping in to A&E today or will it be
Carry On Doctor Leo ?
The absolute shame of the hospital bed crisis laid bare.
EIGHT days on a trolley.
The clown should hang his head in shame.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/eight-days-on-a-trolley-in-a-e-a-diary-1.3938132
I see things are on the up in the UK. https://amp.ft.com/content/e26a0738-9bd8-11e9-9c06-a4640c9feebb?__twitter_impression=true
It just paves the way for a return to the “good old days” of ration books come brexit
Blighty sneezes and Ireland catches a cold.
Or in the case of no-deal Brexit a bad dose of pneumonia.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
…what…is that you sniveling Charger…stiff upper lip man!
Me ?
Charger ?
Snivel ?
I fear you must have the wrong chap,old boy.
I’m my usual tickety-boo self taking out the trash on here.
…ok…but none of this talk of blighty in less than rude health…this place is crawling with natives…
“Wake up sheeple”
The Residential Tenancies Board, headed by Rosalind Carroll, publishes its rents report for the first quarter of 2019. It’s late.
https://onestopshop.rtb.ie/images/uploads/Comms%20and%20Research/RTB_Rent_Index_2019_Q1_V2.pdf
Rents 8.3% up nationally.
19 new rent pressure zones (thanks Roisin Shortall for prompting the intro of RPZ legislation). They should have been declared last month.
Rents in Dublin up 9%. Average rent is now €1,662.
TLDR? Murphy should go. He should take Rosalind Carroll and the RTB board with him.
And the media spin on the ever increasing house prices – “the ‘rate’ of increase has slowed to a fifth of its previous”
The ‘rate’ of increase?
The house prices are still rising on a monthly basis. I don’t see any reference to mirrored pay increase rates.
But the media are trying to hoodwink us into thinking that house prices are on the way down.
Except in Dublin where prices have dropped for a second quarter.
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2019/0624/1057171-property-prices/
And we have a whole new batch of RPZs! Top work gang!
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0702/1059622-rtb_rent-pressure-zones/
Thanks blushirts!
€2,500 fine for the Irish Daily Mirror journalist, who was convicted of contempt after naming one of the killers in the Lucan child murder case on a radio programme.
€10,000 for the Cork radio station.
On Thursday this week, we can expect the publishers of the Irish Daily Mail and its editor to be in court to answer contempt proceedings taken by the DPP about the reporting of the Lucan child murder trial.
And on 30 July, we’ll have the publishers of the Indo, its then editor (since promoted to group editor) and a journalist in court to answer contempt proceedings taken by the DPP about the reporting of a rape trial last year.
And over the weekend, you may have seen similarly worded apologies in the Irish Times, Irish Examiner and Echo to a trainee priest who was the subject of fairly lurid reporting last year. The Echo apology included
“The Evening Echo accepts that there was no truth in and no basis for this allegation.
The Evening Echo apologises to Conor Gannon for stating that he was expelled or suspended from the College.
The Evening Echo acknowledges that the article was false and should not have been published.
The Evening Echo has agreed to pay damages to Conor Gannon for the upset and distress caused to him by the article.”
The trainee priest has also sued most of the other Irish press in separate proceedings which have yet to conclude.
Fills you with proud for the Irish media. But, you know, “social media flutes”….
The Boy Harris fails once again. Any tries to quietly evade the fact that his Bring Them Home (Les Miserables?) ‘plan’ didn’t work.
Great to see our brave media selecting world events to report. Wall-to-wall coverage of Hong Kong, it’s Chinese, get over it.
What about Iran which would potentially be a far more important trading partner for Ireland, they love our beef, we love their oil. Very little reporting of events there where the US has unilaterally pulled out of a nuclear deal and then the US imposed new sanctions. Typical Trump, wha? but the US is putting pressure on the EU (us!) to follow suit, even though this is a fight between the USA and Iran.
Presumably RTE is doing much reporting on Iran because it is beholden to Washington.
And barely a mention of Macron’s Stormtroopers clubbing ordinary French citizens senseless every weekend.
Great. When they are done there hopefully they will come to the north of England and other Brexit strongholds
Well done.
You see you can post something other than ” Wake up sheeple” if you put your mind to it.
Obviously I’m being generous with my use of the word mind.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
But,of course,the EU ” has our backs”.
Heh,heh,heh.
“Wake up sheep-le”
Heh,heh,heh.h.
Baa baa baa
Our national center for hazing excellence is doing us proud yet again.
Not content with taking the money, no questions asked, from Chinese telecoms company Huawei which stands accused of state-level spying and whose money is no longer welcome at the likes of Oxford and Stanford where the money is seen as a way of buying influence.
Today, we learn Trinity is taking money from
the base for the Kinahan drug trafficking organisationDubai and specifically from the dictator who’s having all sorts of family difficulties, with the latest being his wife reportedly fleeing to Germany seeking asylum. One of Mo’s daughters hasn’t been seen since 2000 and another was seen last year looking heavily medicated after she was captured by Mo’s henchmen after she tried to escape. By many accounts, Dubai is a corrupt bribe-ridden poo-hole.If Trinity wants to take money from state level spying organisations or the base for a DTO which wrecks havoc on the streets of Ireland, fine, but why is the Irish govt also giving it €50 million a year.
http://www.universitytimes.ie/2019/07/trinity-launches-middle-eastern-centre-funded-by-al-maktoum-foundation/
RTE Morning Ireland is again pairing advertising with reporting. A taxi app is trying to sell you more of its services. Cue advertising on Morning Ireland for the app, fair enough, even though the app has never advertised on Morning Ireland before. But then, Morning Ireland gives them the pride-of-place slot on the 7.50am business slot and a mention in other slots.
Is that how Ireland’s most listened to news and current affairs radio programme now works? Take an advertising slot and you’ll get an in-programme interview? It’s not just grubby, it’s Jon-Williams-level grubby.
Heard similar on Newstalk about their name change to be fair…… or fare…
snarf!
Aside from it being a ridiculous name-change, RTE will take the advertising fee while there are companies wishing to pay it. Massive wage bill out at Montrose.
Aka ‘the ego tax’
One thing I notice about the Hong Kong rioters- they really take their health and safety seriously.
Hard Hat ☑
Protective glasses ☑
Dust masks ☑
Proper length hammers ☑
Knees bends when lifting ☑
They probably applied a risk profile beforehand.
Now that is a well organised riot.
Good to see the Union Jack being flown as a symbol of defiance.
Oh,wait,that’s a symbol of oppression.
We’d best delay the call until Fintan O’Toole shares with us his opinions on the matter.
He is, after all, Leo’s Dictaphone.
Never has an instrument of communication been better named.
Morning Charger.
Foaming at the bit, are we?
Baa baa baa
Larry Goodman, the glorified knackeryman pays “largely no tax” on €170m profits in 2018.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/nine-goodman-companies-made-largely-untaxed-profit-of-170m-1.3943367
Larry didn’t amass €2.4 billion of wealth (according to the Sunday Times in March 2019, up €1.8 billion from the previous year) by not paying KPMG barrow loads of money for (lawful) tax avoidance advice, you know.
Meanwhile, how are Irish beef farmers doing again? They’re avoiding tax too, you know (by not even making minimum wage on their work)
Interesting developments in Belfast- Belfast City Council has passed a motion to take legal action over flags being put up in parts of the city.
The motion calls on councillors to back attempts to bring a legal challenge against the Department for Infrastructure which owns the lamp posts many of these flags and banners are attached to.
Given that the now lord Mayor John Finucane (son of Pat) comes from a heavy duty legal family, it is highly likely that they will follow through to the courts.
The flying of such has been deeply unpopular in mixed areas for a very long time, especially in south Belfast, so if BCC win in court, the new PSNI chief will have his work cut out for him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48830950
Meanwhile in the High Court, a certain ex-INM editor in chief has just commenced defamation proceedings against RTE and a Sunday Times journalist.
Did anyone go to his “Fraud Prevention Conference” last month? A total of five Gardai did, including the one making a presentation. None of them paid for it, and the Gardai had a free stand at the event. The conference doubtfully claimed it had 500+ attendees and of course it was given a high profile plug on RTE
ads for interviewsMorning Ireland and REDACTEDtalk. Anyone?Meanwhile in the UK (population 65m, 13x Ireland), the BBC publishes the list of staff paid £150,000+ (€168,000) a year in the year to April 2019 (that is, for a period which ended three months ago).
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48826586
John Humphrys, a titan of broadcasting whose daily 3-hour radio show gets around 5m listeners is paid £290,000 (€325,000)
Meanwhile, in Ireland, Sean O’Rourke was paid €308,964 by loss-making RTE in the year to December 2016.
(PS, if the BBC can publish presenter salaries within 3 months of the year end, why does it take loss-making RTE 22 months?)
Jebus, Graham Norton only gets £610,000 while the mediocrity on the loss-making RTE Late Late Show gets €495,000 (excluding royalties on his book which exploits the Toy Show “jumper” thing)?
https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/tv-personality-news/2019/07/heres-full-list-bbc-air-stars-earning-over-ps150000
And yet loss-making RTE is whinging about its sustainability……
Unbelievable really
#despitebrexit
Japanese telecoms giant NTT Corporation has announced that they’re opening a new global HQ for their international subsidiary in London. NTT Corp has an annual revenue of over $100 billion a year and currently employs 40,000 people. The new London-based subsidiary merges three companies into an $11 billion business.
Heh,heh,heh.