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Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum
Already branded ‘sexist’ and banned in Canada last July, Pamela Anderson’s ‘new’ ad for Peta is doing the rounds of the internets. Wonder where Peta got the idea?
Dev’s grandson Eamon O’Cuiv arriving at government buildings this morning.
He seems happy.
(Photocall Ireland)
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The girls from Tesco. The bloke in the chipper.
The butcher. The bookie.
Everyone loves Mary.
She’s Eiregeddon’s Dame Vera Lynn.
(Photocall Ireland)
The December issue.
And an old Smash Hits.
Sad.
But will you go and see them next Summer?
Take That And Robbie Announce Tour (The Guardian)
(Idolator)
We’ve removed the Chris De Burgh Comment about Niamh Horan.
Jesus, dude, why?
It felt mean.
Mean? Have you seen what she writes every week? She’s the queen of mean.
We don’t have a dog in this fight.
Unless it’s squee, right? This is bullshit, man.
It’s the right thing to do.
You feel sorry for her because of the gold shorts. Well no one forced her to wear them.
It’s done, dude. Let it go.
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry has left out some notable poets from its latest edition. And still no inclusion for Pat ‘The Hat’ Ingoldsby.
(Illustration: Lucy Davey/FT)
In other news:
THE former managing director of ‘The Irish Times’ received a €1m payoff after she left earlier this year, it was revealed as the company unveiled further losses.
Maeve Donovan, who stepped down from her position as MD in February, was given a €1m “ex-gratia” payment by the newspaper “relating to a commutation of pension rights agreed with her”.
When Ms Donovan retired, she dismissed suggestions that she would receive a significant “golden handshake”, saying that her package would be “nothing out of the ordinary at all”.
Ms Donovan instigated the now infamous “investment and diversification” strategy at the paper, which saw ‘The Irish Times’ make a series of non-media investments, including a €50m spend on the property website MyHome.ie
Irish Times CEO Got €1m Pay-Off As Losses Mount (Irish Times)
“The documentary which has reconstructed her violent death using lookalike actors also allows people who knew and worked with her to express how they felt she had been misrepresented as being hard and cold.”
Today’s Irish Mail on Sunday on TV3’s documentary, 24 Hours To Kill, to be shown on November 4.