Author Archives: Admin

o'sullivan

This morning.

Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan before the Justice Committee:

Pressed to offer an explanation as to how the inaccurate recording happened, the Garda Commissioner said it could possibly relate to the fact that checkpoints were designed to be a preventative measure.

“Perhaps it wasn’t as valued as detections“, she told Fianna Fail Deputy Jack Chambers, but said she did not want to detract from the diligent work done by gardai and said the process of establishing the facts was still ongoing.

Deputy Chambers pressed the garda delegation on whether a bonus system paid to senior gardaí could have played a part in the exaggerated figures.

The commissioner said she did not know the details of such a bonus system and agreed to come back to the committee.

Gulp.

More as we get it.

Watch Live here

Garda Commissioner before Oireachtas Committee (RTÉ)

Earlier: Dan Boyle: Rap Sheets In Blue

brave giant

Brave Giant – The Time I Met The Devil

With a video directed by award-winning filmmaker Fergus Costello.

Fergus writes:

Something you may be interested in, the video for Brave Giant’s new single “The Time I Met The Devil” which debuted on The Late Late Show last Friday.

From Drumlish Co. Longford, Brave Giant have already begun making waves around Ireland with a headline gig in Whelan’s sold out on the 22nd April with a new date announced for Friday the 21st April.

The video catches up with Father Damo Lennon, once again played by Joe Rooney, 20 years later, to see how he deals with the aftermath of an enormous party, hope you like!

Brave Giant

NIO-EVE-vision-concept-car-designboom-01 NIO-EVE-vision-concept-car-designboom-077 NIO-EVE-vision-concept-car-designboom-07 NIO-EVE-vision-concept-car-designboom-05 NIO-EVE-vision-concept-car-designboom-04

The EVE self-driving concept car from Chinese automaker NIO.

An autonomous drive system encased in AR display glass powered by ‘nomi’ – an ‘artificial intelligence engine’ with an ‘intuitive human interface’

Ew.

designboom

1

4

5

2

from left: Gino Kenny,TD  Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Vera Twomey

This evening.

Molesworth Street, Dublin 2

A rally in solidarity with Vera Twomey and her seven-year-old Ava Barry who is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome.

Earlier this month, Ava’s mother Vera Twomey, walked  from Cork to the Dáil  to highlight her daughter’s need for THC-based cannabis oil to battle seizures.

Meanwhile, Minister for Health Simon Harriss this evening has asked a panel of doctors to draw up guidelines on how medicinal cannibis can be prescribed in Ireland.

Earlier: Free This Evening

Pics Niall Neligan

border brexit

Seamus McGarvey standing with one foot on each side of the border (indicated by the daffodil and the change in the road surface, ahem), outside his home at the Rookery on the south side of the border (nearest camera), outside Derry City.

The EU’s Mr Barnier, says he will be “particularly attentive… to the consequences of the UK’s decision to leave the customs union, and to anything that may, in one way or another, weaken dialogue and peace.”

So the main players all share the will to prevent a hard border but the caveats in their language suggest they have not yet found a way.

Much of the speculation has centred on a virtual border where all declarations are made electronically and freight movements are monitored by number plate recognition technology.

The Sweden/Norway border is suggested as a model. However, there are still physical customs posts on that border, so the Irish solution would need to go beyond what has been achieved there….

Article 50: The view from Northern Ireland (BBC)

Earlier: Brexit Role Man

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

melaniec

‘Sporty’ Spice Melanie C

Better get with her friends.

On The Ray D’Arcy Show...

Sinéad Harrington writes:

Fresh from his victory on Dancing With the Stars, Aidan O’Mahony joins Ray on the couch this Saturday night. The five-time All-Ireland winning footballer will chat about going from underdog to victor on the hit dance show. He’ll reveal what life is like now he’s back on the beat in his day job as a member of An Garda Siochána and how the arrival of his baby girl Lucia has changed his life.

Former Spice Girl Melanie C will discuss the changing face of the music business, the lasting legacy of Girl Power and the pressures of life in the public eye.

Aine Lawlor, will drop by this Saturday night. She will chat to Ray about highlights from her distinguished career in journalism, what she likes to do in her downtime and how cancer has never left her life.

Following the success of his nationwide tour author, actor and raconteur Michael Harding will join Ray to talk about sourcing

*pours hot jam down the back of telly*

The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ One on Saturday at (the later than advertised) 10.25pm.

Pic: ZHI