This afternoon.
Jamestown Business Park, Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin, 11.
Mick McCrory (above), owner of Finglas Fuel supplies, prepares for a rush on wood. A €200 energy rebate to every household in the country was among the Government’s cost of living package announced yesterday.
Everybody huddle.
No Govt plans for further cost of living interventions (RTE)
Daithi O’Se launching the 2018 Rose of Tralee festival
“If you look at the Rose of Tralee from the beginning, there was a set of rules from the first day and those rules have changed as the years went on.
“The Rose of Tralee has always been forwarding thinking, say for example there was a time where if you had a child you weren’t allowed to enter, that changed a good few years ago.
“Trans women in the Rose of Tralee; I just can’t wait to get the first trans woman up on stage because it’s going to be great fun.
“It’s about being inclusive, we’re all here together, it’s a very safe place and it’s a good fun, happy place to be,”
Daithi O’Se Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment at today’s Rose of Tralee festival launch.
Rose of Tralee host Dáithí Ó Sé hopes to welcome the first trans woman to the festival (RTE)
This morning.
Dublin city, unidentified location.
Random pollution or hair metal video smoke machine?
We may never know.
PracticalKapital tweetz:
Can I just say that I would most definitely vote for the Richard Boyd Barrett/Pat Kenny election ticket? A dream team.
Former Fine Gael Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Paudie Coffey
“Fine Gael wants to make work pay; we are committed to implement policies, initiatives and plans to increase the number of people at work by 200,000 by 2020. This will allow us to firstly reduce and then abolish Fianna Fail’s hated USC tax.
“Amazingly all other political parties want to retain the USC; only Fine Gael wants it gone. If you decide to vote for Fine Gael we will abolish the tax. This will mean that the effective rate of tax on income will reduce from 52% down to 44%; this will encourage people to take up jobs in the economy and attract investment into Ireland.”
Then Fine Gael junior Miniser Paudie Coffey, 2016
Universal Social Charge is Unfair; Fine Gael will Abolish it – Minister Coffey (Fine Gael. 2016)
Meanwhile…
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe
This morning.
Via Irish Times:
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that the Universal Social Charge (USC) cannot be abolished.
On Newstalk’s Breakfast show, Mr Donohoe denied that the charge had been introduced as a temporary measure.
“I never said it was temporary. It was the integration of two levies. The USC will remain an important part of our tax system,” he said.
The charge could not be removed because if that was done it would have to be explained where else to generate the money it collects every year, he added.
Good times.
Universal Social Charge cannot be abolished, says Donohoe (Irish Times)
Thanks Maura
This morning.
Johnson’s Court, Grafton Street, Dublin 2
Long-time reader and diamond geezer Alan Bracken has alerted us to two job vacancies – one full time, one part-time – at family-owned Empress Jewellers in The Westbury Mall.
Sparkling candidates would ideally have a keen knowledge of diamonds, precious metals and gemstones and the roles may include some website maintenance and creative content production aswell as dealing with the public. Contact Alan/Shu: Empressjewelers.Jobs@gmail.com.
This morning.
Via RTÉ News:
A 12-year-old boy has died in a road crash in Co Limerick.
He was driving a car that was in collision with a lorry on the N21 at Rineroe, near Adare.
The boy was the only occupant of the car.
Emergency Services were alerted to the crash shortly before 2am this morning.
The driver of the lorry, a man in his 40s, was not seriously injured.
Yesterday evening.
Mt. Prospect Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3.
Anton Chigurh writes:
Not spatially closed; does this mean Dublin Bus have achieved lightspeed, as they’re moving spatially, but not temporally?
Anyone?
Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank with former Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, Philip Lane, now chief economist at the ECB, at the Euro at 20 Conferences Convention Centre Dublin last year
Professor Philip Lane has again defended his long-held view that the current, record-high inflation rate in the euro zone was temporary in the face of mounting pressure on the ECB to raise interest rates, both from investors and policymakers. https://t.co/1h31dzTxK7
— RTÉ Business (@RTEbusiness) February 10, 2022
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ Business:
“Since bottlenecks will eventually be resolved, price pressures should abate and inflation return to its trend without a need for a significant adjustment in monetary policy,” Lane said in a blog post.
He was echoed at a separate event by French governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau.
They were likely trying to dampen market expectations, which are for an early end of the ECB’s bond purchases and rate hikes worth 50 basis points by December.
These were stoked by ECB President Christine Lagarde last week, when she refused to rule out a rate increase this year. Sources told Reuters some policymakers already wanted policy changes at last week’s meeting.
But Philip Lane defended the ECB’s “hold-steady” approach.
“The logic underpinning a hold-steady approach to monetary policy is reinforced if the bottlenecks are primarily external in nature, caused by global disruptions in supply or a surge in global demand,” he said.
Euro zone inflation doesn’t require significant policy tightening – Lane (RTE)
Well I tried to tell you so.
Yes I did.
This afternoon.
Further to yesterday’s MAC address pandemonium
KN writes:
I was wondering how everyone did with the challenge? Did those numbers [MAC addresses] appear on Bluetooth with the vaccinated?
Anyone?
Any excuse.
Yesterday: Why Don’t You Find Our For Yourself
