Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum

margaret-heffernan-iMargaret Heffernan, Dunnes Stores CEO

Mandate Trade Union report that workers who took part in the strike have been sacked and others have had their hours drastically cut by management at the stores.The union highlighted a case of dismissal less than 24 hours after the strike where a manager told a worker “the business isn’t there” despite workers with less service and who hadn’t been on strike remaining in employment.

Dunnes sacking workers who joined strikes, union says (Newstalk 106-108 FM)

Dunnes Stores Shamefully Sack Workers For Striking (SWP)

 

Augusta National, Georgia, USA, this afternoon.

One is a well connected and influential man, the other is a retired golfer.

Niall Horan meets the original trailblazer of golf, Arnold Palmer.

McIlroy leans on Niall Horan for par threes but his one direction is up (Guardian Sport)

LucasHanahoe_004_.jpgLucas Hanahoe

“He had been drinking, excessively, prior to arriving at the apartment. [Hanahoe] suffers from blackouts after excessive drinking and does not remember anything that occurred when he got home,” his lawyer wrote in court papers last year.

The lawyer added that Hanahoe suffered six concussions when he played rugby in Ireland, which would be a part of his “intoxication blackout defence.”

Hanahoe faced 25 years behind bars, but he pleaded guilty last month to the lesser charge of criminal sex act.

‘Drunk’ bartender gets year behind bars for sex assault (New York Post)

Thanks Joshua Saul

Pic: Byron Smith

For the  week that’s in it.

He was the Rory of the day.

Joe Carr, Ireland’s first representive at the Masters in Augusta National, U.S.A in 1967.

Philip Read, of the Irish Times, wrote on the passing of Carr in 2004:

As Peter Alliss, the celebrated Ryder Cup golfer and broadcaster, asserted Carr was the finest amateur golfer in these islands over more than 20 years, during which he won 40 championships and was involved with 11 successive Walker Cup teams, 10 of them as a player.

Amateur!

J.B. Carr