David Thompson from Limerick in Merrion Square minutes ago
Merrion Square
George Clarke and Victor Fennell from CarlowGot price-fixed milk?
Up to 5,000 farmers joined the protest against the raid on the IFA HQ by the Competition Authority this afternoon.
Earlier: Meanwhile, On Stephen’s Green
A 1964 essay, Seeking A National Purpose by Garret FitzGerald set out the former taoiseach’s political vision for the rest of his life.
What it and FitzGerald’s subsequent career lacked, says Vincent Browne in today’s Irish Times, was a commitment to end inequality.
“Garret had only a thin commitment to the ideal of equality, which perhaps is surprising because his personal dispositions would have suggested otherwise. But he was from privileged background – not in monetary terms but certainly in cultural ones.
Garret was not scandalised by the scale of inequality here and rarely exposed to it.
He believed it was politically impossible to radically redistribute wealth and income; he believed there could be only an incremental redistribution from aggregate increases in wealth and income.
He remained therefore content to live with evidence of radical inequality and was often dismissive of that evidence. And his contentment with radical inequality added considerably to the contentment of our political culture with radical inequality, such was his influence.
Garret’s Acceptance Of Inequality Had An Effect (Vincent Browne, Irish Times)
Developer and TD, Mick Wallace has said he does not expect to be forced into bankruptcy, following ACC’s decision to appoint a receiver to a number of properties controlled by his building company.
Declan Taite of FGS was appointed last Tuesday to the Italian Quarter on Ormond Quay in Dublin city centre, the Behan Square apartment complex on Russell St near Croke Park, and to development land in Rathgar, Dublin 6.
All the assets were under the control of Mr Wallace’s main development company, M&J Wallace Ltd. It is understood that ACC Bank is owed €20m, and had fixed charges over the specific assets in question.
Reciever Appointed To Wallace Properties (RTE)
An Irish man has died attempting to reach the summit of Everest days after his wife gave birth to a baby girl.John Delaney (above), 41, from Kilcock, Co Kildare, is understood to have collapsed less than 50 metres from the top. He is the first Irish man to die on the world’s highest mountain.
The climber, the managing director of an online market prediction company, died on Saturday but because his team was out of contact it has only just been confirmed.
Mr Delaney – who also had two young sons, Caspar, three, and two-year-old Alexander – died without knowing his wife Orla gave birth to a baby girl last Wednesday.
Siobhan Moore, Dublin Airport Authority spokesperson minutes agoAer Lingus and Ryanair have cancelled a number of flights to and from Scotland today due to the risk posed by a fresh outbreak of volcanic ash from Iceland.
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) this morning said there will be no closures in Irish airspace, based on the latest data from the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in London.
Although all Irish airports remain open, the IAA said some services may be affected by restrictions imposed by other European service providers, and it advised passengers to regularly check airline website
Ash Cloud Disrupts Flights (Irish Times)
If you saw last night’s Prime Time report by Aoife Kavanagh, you’ll know – if you didn’t sense it already – that Irish priests and nuns brought more than the Good Book to Africa.
The “pennies for the little black babies” funded some to go to the Third World and abuse youngsters in their care.
And they were aided by their superiors and the by-now familiar pattern: moving abusers around, not cooperating with local police, Vatican indifference etc., etc.
Fr Eamon Aylward (above), executive secretary of The Union of Irish Missionaries, went on Morning Ireland this morning to defend his organisation. You might have heard him.
What you may not know is that he was expertly coached and that it was just the start of an expensive PR operation by the UIM, – revealed in last Sunday’s Sunday Business Post – designed to limit damage.
The article says the UIM is “understood to have hired several public relations experts, including Terry Prone, to manage the fallout from [the documentary].”
It goes on to highlight the importance of developing a ‘‘support system for those fronting the issue’’ in broadcast and print media.” That’s counselling for the people defending the church.
But it gets better.
After various ” internal focus groups” members identified the biggest obstacles facing the religious orders at the moment.
And they were…
‘‘Fear of losing power [and] status’’ and a ‘‘fear of change’’.
DRINKS GIANT Diageo is reviewing its operations in Ireland with a view to job cuts being implemented among its 1,800-strong workforce on the island.
This is part of a wider restructuring plan being formulated by the London-based company for its European operations. An announcement is expected shortly, possibly this week.
It is not clear how many redundancies will be sought in Ireland as part of the restructuring but sources familiar with the plan suggested it would be “significant”.
Diageo Workers In Ireland Face New Threat Of Job Losses (Ciarán Hancock, Irish Times)
Presidential Pint Of Plain Worth Millions To Guinness (Ann-Marie Walsh, Irish Independent)
Taoiseach Enda Kenny
President Mary McAleese.
Marian Finucane.
Former Attorney General Peter Sutherland
Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan
Mary Mary and Nick RobinsonThe establishment gather as Garret FitzGerald’s coffin arrives last night at the Sacred Heart Church in Donnybrook, Dublin 4, after lying in state at the Mansion House, where 20,000 people reportedly paid their respects.
Count Henry Of Slane And All Her Dominions.
Jordanian Prince Edward of Money with his valet ‘Doyle’
Hon Robert Kerr, Baron of Dragonshire
Ladies-in-waiting, Duchess Grainne Von Cankle, Elizabeth MountFitzpatrickProles, out of picture.
Queen Reveals She Is An X Factor Fan (Ken Sweeney, Irish Independent)
Leinster House this afternoonThere is a poignant image of [Garret] FitzGerald a year or so after the signing of the agreement when he visited Northern Ireland amid tight security. He made it his business to break away from his entourage and shake the hand of a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer who had been guarding him.
At the time, the RUC was facing the enmity of not only the Provisional IRA but also extreme loyalists, who were burning police officers out of their homes because the force had been asked to physically defend the new Anglo-Irish Secretariat building on the outskirts of east Belfast.
The handshake was probably the first since Seán Lemass went to Northern Ireland to meet his prime ministerial counterpart, Sir Terence O’Neill, in the 1960s.
Garret FitzGerald’s Death Casts Shadow Over Royal Visit (Henry McDonald, Guardian)
