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Last night/this morning.

Alan Rusbridger (top left), the former editor of the Guardian, has stepped down from the government’s Future of  Media commission following controversy over his employment of Roy Greenslade (right), who recently revealed that he had supported the IRA’s use of violence during the Troubles and had concealed that fact to protect his employment.

Via The Guardian:

Rusbridger said he had been heartened by support from his fellow commissioners and the culture and media minister, Catherine Martin, who last week backed his continued involvement.

One article by Greenslade in 2014 was critical of Máiría Cahill and a BBC documentary that aired her claim about being raped by a former IRA member.

The Guardian apologised to Cahill last week saying, as did Rusbridger, who said Greenslade should have been explicit about his support for the IRA. After the Guardian’s readers’ editor completed a review of this and two other Greenslade articles regarding Cahill’s case all three articles were removed from its website.

Alan Rusbridger quits Irish media body over Roy Greenslade controversy (The Guardian)

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Yesterday.

Harpist Aoife Ní Bhriain (17) from Kilmacanogue, practising near her home on top of Rocky Valley in Wicklow, ahead of her Irish Harp competition at the Feis Ceoil, which starts today (March 15) with a fortnight of classical music competitions being held online for the first time (details at link below)/

Feis Ceoil

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Ah anseo.

This afternoon.

The newly opened 20 house development has been named ‘Pairceanna na Glas’ – a name that is meaningless and incorrect in terms of grammar and spelling, according to locals and scholars who are urgently pressing Kerry County Council to correct the error in what is a Gaeltacht town.

Locals began warning the council about the meaningless name last October.

However the name stone has now been erected, and it lacks the requisite fada in “páirceanna”…

…Local GP Dr Peadar Ó Fionnáin, said no one is really sure what “glas“ means in the context because of the poor gramma

Anger as Dingle estate given ‘meaningless’ Irish name (RTÉ)

This afternoon.

It’ll be grand.

Meanwhile…

Thailand has  became the first Asian country to halt the use of the jab over safety concerns, shortly after Denmark announced a two-week pause to its nationwide rollout after reports of blood clots and one death.

In a setback to Europe’s ailing vaccination campaign, seven other countries have also suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot: Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Austria and Italy, meanwhile, have said that they will stop using certain batches of the vaccine as a precautionary measure.

Many other nations, however, have defended their use of the shot and said they will continue their respective inoculation campaigns…

More countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot fears: What we know so far (CNBC)

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Thanks Alan Bracken

This morning.

Rathmullen Park. Drogheda, County Louth.

Gardai search where partial skeletal remains were found yesterday as the search continues to find the severed body parts of a teenager who was murdered in January 2020.

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Last night.

In case you missed it.

Broadsheet on the Telly, featuring, clockwise from top left: host Neil Curran, celebrity accountant Vanessa Foran, guitar hero Jimmy Smyth and special guest, economist Eddie Hobbs.

Neil writes:

Eddie joined us to talk the Irish economy in a Covid and post Covid world. He shares his insight on Irish media, our soaring debt and unemployment and a huge need for reform. Vanessa also sang again.

2:00 – Vanessa’s 3 minutes and 10 seconds introduction of Eddie Hobbs
8:25 – “The mainstream media has become a shadow of what it was…”
12:00 – “We’re heading into an inflationary cycle”
13:00 – National debt & zero interest rates
18:50 – Where does it all end? The World Economic Forum & “The Great Reset”
24:00 – RTE & the death of mainstream media
37:00 – The Social Progress Index
43:30 – What does Ireland post Covid look like?
52:00 – “The indigenous Irish economy is feeble and weak, and not represented”
58:25 – “We are not going to have to pay for this with increased taxes”
1:01:00 – “The one question that gets my blood boiling” – what happens when the forbearance measures end
1:14:00 – “Is there going to be permanent damage?”
1:26:00 – Eddie’s one last takedown – The Irish Deep State!

FIGHT.

Last night: Staying In?