Keeley – To A London Sunrise
England’s dreaming.
Dublin indie pop rising star Keeley continues her powerful musical tribute to the ill-fated German teenager Inga Maria Hauser.
To A London Sunrise is the first glimpse of Keeley’s second EP Echo Everywhere, released by Dimple Discs, and produced by Alan Maguire.
The video was produced and edited by Keeley.
Nick says: Special K.
Last night.
San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
Morrissey meets a mini-Moz on stage at the Fremont Theatre,
Who’s on the drum, anyone?
Pic via Mischievous Nose
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— HSE Ireland (@HSELive) May 13, 2022
No, after you.
No, I insist.
Etc.
Meanwhile…
We are in hell.https://t.co/PBvaKm2trr
— Bob Moran (@bobscartoons) May 13, 2022
This afternoon.
BREAKING: Elon Musk tweets that his $44B deal to buy Twitter “temporarily on hold” pending more details on spam accounts. https://t.co/IzsLw28sNm
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 13, 2022
This morning/afternoon.
They’re in so much trouble.
Meanwhile…
Funny because “less than 5%” is probably the same percentage of people who will fall for this nonsense.
— AprilJ (@AprilJ69) May 13, 2022
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We didn’t even know it was on.
Garden Terrace, House, Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
The launch of Avène’s New Ultra Broad Spectrum Facial Suncare Collection SPF 50+, now Available at Boots.
In time for the Irish ‘Summer’.
From top; Elle Gordon and Kellie Billings; Niamh Martin and Sarah O Callaghan; Corina Gaffey and Patrick Kavanagh; Melanie Morris; Megan Virgo and Kathryn Devanney; Amy Rohu and Lisa Murrin; Judy Gilroy and Trine Jenson; Grace Cahill and Katie Allen; Norah and Carissa Casey, and Event host Dr. Doireann O’Leary (left), April Kerr and Roberta Von Meding.
Pics Karen Morgan
This morning
A survey, carried out by Currys, has revealed that only 37% of people regularly recycle old electronic items.
How dare you.
With this in mind…
…Via Currys Ireland:
‘We are today launching ‘Cash for Trash’, a limited time offer where shoppers can swap unused tech products, broken or in working order, for a voucher worth €5 to spend in store or online.
Bring all your old, broken, unwanted tech, large or small, to your closest Currys store by 14th June. In return, Currys will give you a €5 voucher redeemable against any eligible in-store purchase (by June 14.2022).’
Jaimie Cantwell, Head of Commercial at Currys Ireland adds:
“We’re confident the public are going to get behind this scheme in a big way, and help us to avoid adding more tech to landfill.”
President of the High Court Mary irvine
This morning.
Further to the imminent retirement of Mary Irvine as the first woman president of the High Court…
…Via Irish Times:
Ms Justice Irvine championed controversial new guidelines to slash minor personal injury awards – a deeply, deeply unpopular move in the eyes of many barristers:
“Treason, as far as I’m concerned, what she has done amounts to treason to the Bar,” one senior counsel fumed to The Irish Times this week, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Barristers have felt under siege for some years now, but the impact of the personal injury guidelines has particularly contributed to division in the legal world about Ms Justice Irvine’s tenure in the State’s third most senior judicial position.
“Remote hearings have been expanded much more than necessary, depriving junior barristers of essential training opportunities, and judges should never have got involved in making guidelines which mean people will not get properly compensated for their injuries,” said the same barrister.
Up to a third of barristers may quit, believes a junior counsel: “I think Ms Justice Irvine was excellent at getting the courts up and running again after Covid but I would have liked to see her, as a barrister herself, being more sympathetic to the position of barristers,” she said.
Alternatively…
“The personal injuries barristers can yearn for the halcyon days of the past all they want, those days are not coming back,” according to another barrister, whose area of practice does not include personal injuries. “There’s a whiff of misogyny about a lot of the criticism of Judge Irvine
Legal world divided on legacy of retiring High Court president *Mary Carolan, Irish Times)
Alan Dukes, former Chairman of IBRC at a press briefing in relation to the Siteserv issue on April 23, 2015 at the offices of Eames Solicitors, Dublin 2
He was ‘scandalised’.
Further to the leak this morning of a final draft of the Siterserv legal review that reportedly asserts:
‘The bank made its decision to approve the sale of the Siteserv group to Denis O’Brien in good faith, but based on misleading and incomplete information provided to it by the company.’
The State incurred a loss of more than €100 million on the sale.
Siteserv shareholders were paid €5 million as part of the deal.
Throughout the sale process, criticism was usually angrily shut down.
How angrily?
Via Irish Times (April 24, 2015)
Former IBRC chairman Alan Dukes said he is “extremely angry” the review of the Siteserv sale and other transactions conducted by the bank will seek evidence of criminality or malpractice.
The very fact that the possibility of criminality had been mentioned was “absolutely outrageous”, he told a press conference in Dublin.
Mr Dukes said he does not know the precise list of transactions to be covered under the Government-commissioned IBRC review into transations worth more than €10 million, but that he was “happy” the review is taking place.
However, he said he is “scandalised”at the notion of the review seeking evidence of malpractice by IBRC, a State-owned bank set up to wind down the assets of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide.
There were “no grounds for suggesting that”, he told the press conference .
Some people, he said, saw “conspiracy in their tea leaves”, adding he wished to say “in the strongest possible terms” that any such allegations were out of place.
He said he tried not be paranoid, adding that did not mean “they’re not out to get you”, to laughter from many of those present….
Siteserv: Dukes ‘angry’ at suggestion of criminality (Irish Times, April 24, 2015)
Meanwhile…
Former Finance Minister Michael Noonan
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[Alan Dukes] assured me that what happened was in the best interests of the State and consequently of the taxpayer”.
“The deal was the deal and I was assured the components of the deal were necessary to get the best results for the taxpayer. All transactions were complete. There was no possibility of a reversal and I trusted Alan Dukes.”
Michael Noonan, April 22, 2015.
Good times.
Earlier: Now Den
Previously: Deal Timeline
The Bank That Liked To Say Yes
Thanks Giggidygoo
Only you can decide.
Last night.
Turin, Italy.
BBC
Meanwhile….
Beyond proud of this experience, thank you to my wonderful team. I will never forget @eurovision.
Onto the next 👉🏼 pic.twitter.com/RRahlp6OGK
— Brooke (@Brooke_Scullion) May 12, 2022
Yesterday: Derry Girl
DUP confirms it will block election of speaker today meaning new Stormont Executive cannot be formed https://t.co/rYXb7KZIaS
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 13, 2022
This morning.
Via RTE News
The first order of business will then be the election of a new Speaker and two deputies. This requires the support of a majority of all Members of the Assembly as well as a majority of the nationalist and unionist designations.
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has confirmed that his party will not support these appointments as part of his campaign against the Northern Ireland Protocol.
In a statement to Belfast’s daily Unionist newspaper the News Letter, he said the protocol is eroding the very foundations that devolution has been built upon.
The decision means the Assembly cannot even discuss the appointment of a First and Deputy First Minister.
