Author Archives: Bodger

Yikes.

Last night.

Roscommon Roads Policing Unit stopped this veh-icle after it was found traveling at 120kph in a 50kph zone while in hazardous weather conditions. Proceedings to follow. That’ll learn ’em.

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Hail to the thief chief.

This afternoon.

Washington DC

Live coverage from C-Span of the inauguration ceremony (above).

Meanwhile, the Trumps (top) arrive in Florida as the Bidens (pic 2) enter Capitol Hill.

Earlier: Morning In America

This afternoon.

Thud.

Ryan Tubridy (left) and Miriam O Callaghan

Gulp.

This afternoon.

RTÉ has releases the fees earned by its highest-paid presenters in 2017, 2018 and 2019 (above).

Via RTÉ

In addition, RTÉ confirms that, as part of a range of cost-cutting measures announced last year, the total fees paid to its highest-paid presenters has been reduced by 15% in 2020.

FIGHT!

Meanwhile…

RTÉ Director-General, Dee Forbes, said:

“Our presenters have been crucial to RTÉ’s output throughout this pandemic, as audiences turned to their national public media in record numbers for vital news, information, entertainment and companionship. They continue to make a significant contribution to public media in Ireland and enable RTÉ to optimise important commercial revenue, which is essential to support our public services. RTÉ has reduced overall annual operating costs by over €100m since 2008, and last year targeted additional savings of €60m over three years, which we are on course to deliver. In that context, we continue to keep the fees of our highest-paid presenters under constant review.”

Friday: Vanessa Foran: Don’t Hate The Player, Hate The Game

This afternoon.

Zero Covid strategy?

FIGHT!

This afternoon.

The Quays, Dublin 1.

A heavy Garda presence monitoring an End the Lockdown protest in support of an appeal by Gemma O’Doherty and John Waters against lockdown measures.

Earlier…

This morning.

The Four Courts, Dublin.

Gemma O’Doherty carrying a copy of the Constitution of Ireland, and John Waters arrive to seek appeal to have their case against Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and the Attorney General to end Ireland’s lockdown measures heard before the courts.

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This morning/afternoon.

The White House, Washington DC.

Earlier…

This morning/afternoon.

Washington DC, USA.

The sun rises over the National Mall, where a “Field of Flags” represents Americans who cannot attend the inauguration amid rona fears.

‘Field of Flags’ on National Mall represents Americans who cannot attend Biden’s inauguration (ABC)

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

This morning.

Via The Irish Times:

Records released under the Freedom of Information Act to the Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty and seen by The Irish Times show increasingly urgent attempts by Mr Harris to obtain a copy of the draft agreement between the State and the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO). This was happening at the same time as Mr Varadkar had posted a copy to the home address of Dr Ó Tuathail, who was head of the now-defunct National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP).

Varadkar leaked GP contract while Harris urgently sought copy (Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

Uh oh.

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