Which means he only has only six income strands left.

Receiver Appointed To Celtic Bookmakers (Irish Times)

They were tempting fate:

Fine Gael has cleared its website of the usual promises ‘n’ whatnot and left a short video of Enda Kenny chatting awkwardly to camera in a coffee shop and one-page questionnaire for visitors to offer their solutions to the economic mess.

They really want to hear from you.

Among the first contributors is ‘Danny O’Brien’ from Dublin, who writes:

“Not having Enda Kenny in office is what has gone wrong with this country.”

Watch here.

Fine Gael Opens Campaign With Obama-Style Web Forum (Irish Times)

Sorry, this Justin.

Vanity Fair‘s February 2011 cover, released literally in the last hour. The magazine had threatened a lengthy piece on Ireland’s economic woes but we appear to have dodged the bullet or they’re waiting until March. Either way, Huzzah.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVcdRil7W98

Your mission: download 300,000 documents from the Oval Office while Obama is having a nap.

Wikikleaks. It brings the meh.

Which is why an estimated 30,000 legal and undocumented Irish went to New York in 2010.

Paul Finnegan, executive director of the Irish Centre in Queens, said requests for advice and assistance have increased tenfold in the past year.

“I look around and I know that there are young men and women there that would not have the opportunity to get a green card.

“I’m not saying that they’ve overstayed their visitor’s visa, I’m just saying that I’m observing huge numbers that I have not seen in before.”

Watch here:

It’s about the famine, apparently.

“It tells a story of the famine,” says the song’s author Pete st John. “If people want to hang other things on The Fields of Athenry, that’s their business. It was never my intention . . . and I hate it.”

Blimey. Next they’ll be saying Molly Malone is about a prostitute who dies of consumption.

Celebrating A ‘Song For The People’ (Irish Times)

We’ve championed the little tyke since Wednesday.

Jamie, age three, made a sign, dressed up as one of Santa’s Little Helpers and promptly ran into his Uncle’s baggage trolley.

He is, in effect, a metaphor for Ireland 2010

Jamie’s now gone viral with more than a quarter of a million hits on YouTube within the first 24 hours. It may even topple the Rubberbandits’ 3 million haul.

Watch again and discover the real meaning of Christmas.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQuPs5n8Wo&feature=player_embedded

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