Olli: No, I am really Finnish.

Brian: So am I.

Olli: No, Finnish. Not finished.

Brian: Oh I get you. Once you finish, I’ll be finished.

Olli: Just show me the books.

(Photocall Ireland)

Ah now.

(Photocall ireland, Evening Herald)

Yes.

Very low.

From today’s Irish Sun.

Previously.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiV5Ftj_Xn8&feature=player_embedded

You’re not alone.

“On Friday I saw Nadine on the Late Late Show. It was a desperate, fake performance that left the audience cold. She looked emaciated. She spoke in a clipped LA/Derry accent that sounded so far removed from Ireland that even her pronunciation of Naas as “Nass” didn’t surprise me.”

Anna Nolan, Evening Herald.

It’s a ‘doorstep’.

Rehn Tells Noonan Room For Negotiation On Budget (RTE)

(Photocall Ireland)

Sculptor Danny Osborne returns Oscar Wilde’s head to his body, in the north-east corner of Merrion Square, after a thorough cleaning. Danny’s statue is 13-years-old this year and still one of only a few tributes to Oscar Wilde in Ireland.

(Photocall Ireland)

“But the piece de resistance is the unlikely cast of playable characters: you’re not fighting as anonymous soldiers, you’re controlling ex-presidents and politicos like John F Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Fidel Castro, all of whom spout familiar sound bites as they hack down staggering Nazi aggressors. It’s a neat, knowing inversion of the campaign’s serious Cold War setting, and it nicely recalls Patrick Swayze’s bank robbing gang in Point Break with their over-sized president masks. There’s also an extra mode named Dead Ops, a dual-stick top-down shooter in the style of Robotron: 2084 or Smash TV in which you fight through a series of single-screen locations, competing for cool power-ups like flame-throwers and rocket launchers. Awesome fun.”

Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Review By Keith Stuart (Guardian)

Midnight Queues For Call Of Duty (BBC)

And he doesn’t look like he really gives a damn. Watch here.

Meanwhile, following Morgan Kelly’s ‘Eiregeddon’ article in the Irish Times yesterday, The Wall Street Journal today warns: Here come the Irish mortgages:

“But problems in the residential-mortgage arena are starting to crop up, fueling fears that a second wave of losses could hit even Ireland’s healthiest banks. Those fears are one reason why jittery investors punished shares of Irish banks. An index of Irish financial stocks fell 5.3%, and shares in Bank of Ireland, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders, tumbled 5.6% in Dublin.”

Here Come The Mortgages (Wall Street Journal)

Ireland’s Next Blow: Mortgages (Wall Street Journal)

It’s all coming back.

Bit by bit.

Previously.

Kidding.

But he has laughed off the comparison storm.

Unlike Matthew Norman in the London Independent:

“What a Saturday night for The X Factor judges, with Louis Walsh telling Paije Richardson (short, plump, 19 and black) that he was “like a little Lenny Henry”. Let’s hope Louis suffers no backlash. It was solely Paije’s fault for turning up to rehearsals with a 20st ex-wife in a dog collar, and doing sensationally unfunny impressions of his old Jamaican mum.”