A child could do that.
Brendan McCarey, of Mullan Kids in Monaghan writes:
The Colour Me Lampshade is the ideal gift for allowing creative children to turn their creativity into a piece of art for the world to see. This would be the perfect stocking filler and a brilliant activity for the kids on Christmas morning….
Colour Me Lampshade (Mullan Kids)
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.
Ross O’Mullane, at Energia, writes:
Season’s greetings, Ho ho ho etc! We’re on the look out for Ireland’s most Christmassy home, and we’re open for entries until Sunday night – I wonder if BS readers know of anyone who might like to win €2000 for themselves and €2000 for a charity of their choice!?
Gulp.
Enter here
Henrik’s Norse flag of Dublin
On a recent visit to Dublin, Henrik Jacobsen a Danish graphic designer and architect was quite taken with the city and particularly the Nordic origins of Dublin which date back to 841 AD.
In true Danish, style he gathered up as many books as he could and read up on Viking Dyflin.
Henrik writes:
“The Viking story of Dublin is illuminating both from a Norwegian and Danish perspective.The fact that this city was almost a proto-Venice of the Irish and North sea is something that has largely been forgotten.
One of the things that struck me, is that there is an undercurrent of Nationalism in many of the accounts of Viking Dublin. I think many Irish people narrate the story of the Vikings as ‘us’ and ‘them’, when the truth is far more complex and interesting. I was amazed to learn that a Norse dialect was still spoken in parts of Dublin up until the early 14th century.“
A lifelong vexillologist (flag lover) he set about a simple task (from a design perspective) of crafting a Nordic flag for Dublin using the city’s navy and sky blue colours.
Said Henrik:
“Every town and village in Denmark has its flag and crest. Ireland is no different in that respect, but you don’t see them, unless you attend a Gaelic football game. Indeed many of those flags are of recent origin. I personally think, Dubliners should be proud of the Norse origins of their city.
It took me a while to get my head around the fact that the colours used at those football matches were not the official colours of the city but only introduced when colour television was introduced for GAA matches…
The Danish flag was formulated in 1748, the design but not the colours were copied by the Norwegians, the Swedes (typical) and the Finns etc. I can see no reason why Dubliners cannot have their own Nordic flag.
I think it looks good. Also, one has to accept that the Irish national flag is itself a knock-off of the French tricolore, so there is no need to stand on ceremony about such things”
Anyone/FIGHT!
Thanks Antoine D’Alton
Walter Hobbs
Walter Hobbs was IBRC’s independent expert who oversaw the massively controversial sale of Siteserv to Denis O’Brien-owned Millington.
In a memorable RTÉ Prime Time appearance last year, Mr Hobbs described the deal as the best the state could have achieved.
So what of Walter now?
A Young Covey writes:
That guy now seems to be this guy and nobody appears to have raised a single question about it….
Good times.
Previously:
This morning.
Dublin city centre.
Please sign our petition here: https://t.co/hTVYZAS4Te
Banks are forcing over 40 children to become homeless every single month. pic.twitter.com/xIBVDVJb9d— Focus Ireland (@FocusIreland) December 2, 2016
Rollignews
From top: Cover and sample page of Jonathan Sugarman’s book The Whistleblower; and Mr Sugarman (centre) at the launch of his book at Buswells Hotel in Dublin this morning, with MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and Diarmuid O’Flynn, of Ballyhea Says No
A bit of a hero, in fairness.
Jonathan Sugarman is a former executive at Unicredit Bank Ireland in Dublin’s IFSC who resigned in September 2007 after giving a detailed account of enormous liquidity breaches at his bank a year before the financial crash.
Mr Sugarman, whose warning were ignored by the Central Bank, gave an address (above) to MEPs last week and earlier today launched his book The Whistleblower, published with the help of Luke Flanagan MEP, in Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2.
.@whistleirl “What I did was report a crime…” Resigned, went into central bank reported it, a crime involving billions, nothing happened.
— Seanán Kerr (@seanan_kerr) December 2, 2016
Those who wish can buy the book, priced €3.75, a on Smashwords here
Transcript via Oireachtas.ie
Pics: Smashwords and Denis pⓐrfёnov
Thanks Richard Farrell
It MIGHT have your name on it.
Handmade by Maeve Murphy, who writes:
I’d like to give away TWO Stockings with personalised name tags to your readers. The name tags can be personalised to say anything the person wants.
They are available in my Etsy shop or people can drop me a line on Facebook. International shipping available and 10% on 3 or more stockings.
To enter, please complete this sentence:
‘Please give me a stocking as I have had a particularly awful year owing to___________________________________________’
Lines MUST close at MIDNIGHT
Irish-Made Stocking Fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.
Further to yesterday’s story in The Irish Times, by Patsy McGarry, about an alleged sexual assault against a boy in King’s Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin…
Today.
Mr McGarry reports:
“The school contacted lawyers on Friday for legal opinion on dealing with the matter, and was advised to report it to Tusla and the gardaí immediately.”
“However, this was not done until late on Tuesday afternoon of this week. By this stage, The Irish Times had contacted the school with questions about the matter.”
“It has also emerged the boy’s family was told last Friday that the school had been in contact with Tusla.”
“This was understood by the family to mean the alleged incident had been reported to Tusla. However, it is understood the school had put a hypothetical case to the agency, seeking an opinion on what was the best course of action in an apparently construed situation.”
School delayed reporting alleged sexual assault for four days (Irish Times)
Previously: In Palmerstown
Yes, Of course.
But how busy?
Dan Nugent writes:
I am from Dublin-based creative agency In the Company of Huskies. Last year, we created the site isdublinbusy.com, a resource that gave Dublin Xmas shoppers all the info they needed to successfully navigate the crowds at Christmas time.
It was built from both live and historical data – from car park spaces to live traffic cams, from Dublin Bike availability to public transport tweets and much, much more.
And an in-depth analysis over 5 years helped create a chart mapping the city’s estimated footfall traffic for each hour of December!
The site went viral last year and featured on your site. We’ve listened to what people said last year and added Xmas opening hours of Dublin’s most popular stores, updated daily.
And also added an interactive map displaying every available bike stand in the city, along with its capacity and safety rating.
Dublin shoppers can find all they need to know on one brilliantly clever site.
Millionaire Pat Kenny loses it on air again. The rich in Ireland get very panicky when its suggested they are out of touch with reality. pic.twitter.com/Qer4zbl5Za
— Mark Malone (@soundmigration) December 1, 2016
Yesterday morning.
Pat Kenny, on Newstalk, interviewed Sinn Féin TD Eoin O’Broin – during which they talked about the Universal Social Charge.
From their discussion…
Pat Kenny: “You’re saying that you want to keep that, you’re the working man’s friend. You want to keep that regime, where half of what you earn goes straight to the Revenue because you’ll never change the USC. Come on. That is not what ordinary people want? Ordinary, sorry. Ordinary, working people. People who don’t work, it doesn’t affect them one way or the other.”
Eoin Ó’Bróin: “Pat…”
Kenny: “But people who work…[inaudible] hours overtime and half of it goes to Michael Noonan – how fair is that?”
Ó’Bróin: “Well, first of all Pat, I would imagine that I spend a lot more time with ordinary, average income earners than you do but what’s also crucial is…”
Kenny: “Heyyyy…cheap shot, cheap shot, cheap shot, cheap shot.”
Ó’Bróin: “Pat…”
Kenny: “No, come on, all my colleagues in Newstalk, they’re not high earners. I work with them every single day of the week and I know their difficulties. I’m mature, I’ve earned a good living over many years. I started at the bottom, like everybody else and I’m looking at people who are working their way up from the bottom so don’t lecture me about the company that I keep.”
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