Kevin O’Connor writes:
Was in a pub in Kilcolgan [County Galway] this morning and there were a couple of receipts from a pub in Temple Bar for 8 quid pints framed above the urinal.
Not sure if it was a disgruntled tourist or a warning from the publican…
Dún Aonghasa, Inis Mor.
Youtuber Alex writes:
My dad won’t let a crippling fear of heights keep him from peering over the edge. Well maybe.
This afternoon.
Barnardos Square, Dublin 2
Representatives from: Dublin Bus, Iarnród Éireann, Bus Éireann, Transdev, Local Link bus services and the taxi industry at the launch of Europe’s largest national transport anti-racism campaign.
A giant sample of the creative used in the advertising campaign “We’re all made of the same stuff” was displayed on the side of the Dublin City Council building in Barnardos Square.
Above (far right) Brian Killoran, CEO of the Immigrant Council of Ireland and (far Left) Anne Graham, CEO, National Transport Authority.
Rollingnews
Iniisfree-Slish wood walk in May (pics left) and today
You may recall the suspiciously started gorse fires in Sligo in May.
Annie West writes:
In the 4 months since that fire Sligo County Council have been doing heroic work to rebuild the Innisfree-Slish Wood walk , it’s open again and Mrs. Nature has been working hard also…
In fireness.
Previously: Sligo’s Burning
Pics: Annie West
A really rather excellent sixth scale representation of Peter Cushing’s Star Wars character from A New Hope, digitally reprised in Rogue One (complete with high backed chair and three interchangeable sets of hands).
€200 from action figure supremos Hot Toys.
Previously: Your Iron Man 3 Action Figures Have Arrived
Ah here.
Aisling O’Connor writes:
The absolute hack of this “converted room” on Daft.ie. €390 a month for a bed behind a partition?
The Orchard, cloverhill road, Park West, Dublin 12 (Daft.ie)
Earlier: Meanwhile, In Stoneybatter
Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan
Readers may recall how the Disclosures Tribunal is currently on a break.
It will resume on September 18 when it will look at matters concerning Garda Keith Harrison and public bodies including Tusla.
The tribunal will then take another short break.
After that, in November, Judge Peter Charleton is scheduled to look at what information former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and then Deputy Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan may have briefed to former head of the Garda Press Office Supt Dave Taylor in 2014.
This section of the tribunal is also scheduled to look at a meeting between Mr Callinan and Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness, on January 24, 2014, in the carpark of Bewley’s Hotel, Newlands Cross, Co Dublin.
It’s also supposed to examine the broadcasting of a report by Paul Reynolds on RTÉ, on May 9, 2016, in respect of a leaked account of the O’Higgins Commission of Investigation, in which Mr Reynolds reported that the commission found Sgt McCabe “lied in a report to a senior officer” and to see if Ms O’Sullivan had any influence over that report.
And Judge Charleton will also be looking to see if the false allegation of rape that was circulated about Sgt McCabe “or any other unjustified grounds were inappropriately relied upon by the Commissioner during the hearings before Mr Justice Kevin O’Higgins” during this segment of the tribunal.
Readers will also recall how, after the report of the O’Higgins Commission of Investigation was published in May of last year, it emerged that claims made by Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan’s senior counsel to the O’Higgins commission – that Sgt McCabe was acting out of malice – were proven to be untrue.
The allegations of malice were allegedly based on a meeting which took place back in 2008 in Mullingar, apparently between Sgt McCabe, Sgt Yvonne Martin and Supt Noel Cunningham. As Sgt McCabe recorded the meeting, he was later able to disprove the claim of malice alleged at the O’Higgins commission.
But the events described above were not included in Justice O’Higgins’ findings.
Further to this…
Mary Regan, in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post, reported…
The government has been urged to act to remove the uncertainty surrounding the position of the Garda Commissioner who is being linked to a senior position in the EU law enforcement agency, Europol.
The Labour Party said reports and rumours about her candidacy are “unhelpful, particularly at a time when an Garda Síochána requires operational certainty”.
Last month The Sunday Business Post reported that Nóirín O’Sullivan, who is facing a number of controversies at home, is among those being considered for a senior position in the area of specialist operations.
The post becomes available in November, meaning O’Sullivan could potentially leave her current role in the autumn.
Asked if he or his department were made aware of her candidacy before she took her six week’s annual leave, the Justice Minister, Charlie Flanagan said: “She is expected back at her desk, I’m sure, in early September and I look forward to working with her on the subject of her ambitious reform programme.”
Calls for clarity on O’Sullivan Europol rumours (Sunday Business Post)
Ruth McDonagh tweetz:
My friend’s 4 year old lost this teddy [on Saturday] outside the side entrance to Tesco in Mahon Point Shopping Centre [in Cork]. Huge sentimental value.
Anyone?
Director Olan Rogers’ tale of the noble quest of a group of 1980s gamers trapped inside a Medieval RPG arcade machine.
In the Limerick Leader…
Fintan Walsh reports:
Gardaí will soon be able to use mobile phones to access CCTV footage, record statements and check vehicle registrations, thanks to an app the Limerick division is piloting.
Speaking after a joint policing committee meeting at City Hall, Supt Derek Smart said that the ambitious scheme is “at a very advanced stage” and is being driven by Chief Supt David Sheahan.
Another feature being considered by the gardaí is the installation of CCTV access in garda patrol vehicles.
…Explaining the app’s concept, Supt Smart told the Leader last Friday: “If I am in the patrol car I will be able to check, if I see a car in front of me, I can put the reg number into my phone and I can check it. I don’t have to ring people inside in Henry Street to check it.
“You will be able to do it out and about on the street. There will be all apps built into specific phones in regard to it. It basically replaces the notebook. But it becomes a modern tool as well. You can go back into the station, you dock your phone, you download into the system and it is recorded there.”
