John Gallen writes:
Spotted this on Feckbook, Alan Partridge and Nigel Farage striking the same pose, on a boat, on the Thames yesterday :)
Yesterday: Rat Joins Sinking Ship
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From top: Michael Taft; William Campbell
He knows stuff.
Journalist William Campbell meets soft spoken economic number cruncher Michael Taft in the latest episode of Here’s How., William’s excellent, in fairness, Irish current affairs podcast.
William writes:
Broadsheet regular Michael Taft wants the government to promote Irish-owned industry. He says it’s not to be like De Valera’s Economic War in the 1930s, but is it possible in an open economy in the high-tech age?
Listen here
COYBombing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZliTt1GsKo
Hungarian sports reporter Mohay Bence attempts a live segment following the Ireland Sweden match on Monday.
Enter Green Army recon team.
Thank Me Later.
By 21-year-old Kilkenny hip hop artist Sam Guilfoyle, or SG guillotine.
Kenny portraying #EUref as a choice between two roads, one familiar and well-lit; the other dark, unfamiliar, perhaps an unknown destination
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 16, 2016
No possibility of a Republic-NI border without increased costs and loss of competitiveness, Kenny says. #EUref
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 16, 2016
Enda: It’s always been clear that British PM can speak for England, Wales, Scotland and NI… if Brexit, all those voices missing from table
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 16, 2016
“That leaves a very major missing piece at that table”
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 16, 2016
Concluding. “Think of the consequence of your vote; think of where your own people came from, and what it means for your people back home”
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 16, 2016
Taoiseach Enda Kenny at St Michael’s Irish Centre in Everton, England where he’s campaigning against Brexit.
More as they get it.
Previously: Rat Joins Sinking Ship
Pic: Gavan Reilly
SPLUTTER!
Bonkers writes:
There was a Eurostat report out yesterday that showed Ireland is now the most expensive country in the EU to buy alcohol with costs here running at 175% of the EU average.
We are the second most expensive for tobacco (behind the UK) and third most expensive country in which to buy milk, cheese and eggs (all produced in vast quantities within our borders)
On alcohol we’ve recently seen former Minister for Health Leo Varadkar try to introduce a Minimum Alcohol Pricing bill which would undoubtedly make prices of alcohol rise to over double the EU average.
We’ve had politicians persistently tell us that ‘cheap alchohol’ in supermarkets is to blame for all sorts of societal problems. Instead of education our politicians use taxation.
Publicans have come out in favour of minimum unit pricing, on public health grounds, they say.
They even went so far as to lobby the Dept of Health and the Dept of Justice to get Minimum Unit Pricing introduced
I find it a bit strange then for publicans to be claiming that off-licence sales are ‘too cheap’ and need to be raised on public health grounds while at the very same time they were lobbying the Dept of Finance for “Maintaining the current hospitality VAT Rate; Increasing the VAT Threshold from €75,000 to €110,000; Reducing the Excise level on alcohol”.
So they want the government to increase the price of alcohol in supermarkets on health grounds but at the same time they want alcohol excise reduced to help decrease the price of alcohol in their own premises.Does not compute, surely Irish publicans would never pull a stroke?
Hic.
FIGHT!
A typography driven short by Joash Berkeley (and recent Vimeo Video of The Day winner) concerning inferiority complex and the mastery of same. To wit:
…insignificant in magnitude, but undoubtedly important in the world.
Body & Soak
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Aww DAD.
Tim writes:
Laoise, one of my colleagues here in d’office is away to Body and Soul [Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath].this weekend. Her Dad is a retired meteorologist and a bit of a legend, so he put together a body and soul-specific weather forecast (above)…
Yesterday: Going To Body & Soul?
Rain – a bronze statue by Ukrainian artist Nazar Bilyk featuring a man with a gigantic glass raindrop perched on his upturned face, like a lens or maybe a crystal ball. The artist sez of it:
The raindrop is a symbol of the dialogue which connects a man with a whole diversity of life forms. The figure has a loose and porous structure and relates to dry land, which absorbs water. In this work I play with scale, making a raindrop large enough to compare a man with an insect, considering that man is a part of nature. Moreover, this work concerns the question of interaction and difficulties in coexistence of man with environment.
You may recall previous reports detailing how Irish Water spent €16million on extending its lease – by 10 years – at its Colville House, Talbot Street, Dublin 1 headquarters just three days after the general election.
Further to this…
Irish Independent reports:
Jerry Grant has been appointed managing director of Irish Water. The former head of asset management in the utility, he replaces John Tierney who was the company’s first boss.
… Ervia group chief executive Michael McNicholas said Mr Grant brought 40 years of experience to the role.
You may recall how Mr Grant was managing director of RPS Consulting Engineering from 2002 until 2012 – before he joined Irish Water in 2013.
Mr Tireney was Dublin City Manager from 2006 to 2013.
RPS advised Dublin City Council on the Poolbeg incinerator project which has to date cost the State almost €100million with more than €30million going to RPS, even though the original contract was for €8.3million.
The EU found the contract between Dublin City Council and RPS did not conform with EU law.
Good times.
Jerry Grant replaces John Tierney as new Irish Water boss (Irish Independent)
Previously: Chief Running Water