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“I also believe that [Tony] O’Reilly, if he was still involved in business decision making at IN&M, would not have countenanced the situation that has developed whereby staff at the newspaper, some of whom have 20 years service, would be left with mere statutory redundancy to buffer them from pending unemployment.”
“…I hope that Gavin O’Reilly, son of Tony, who graduated to the position of chief executive at IN&M, and who consistently has enjoyed salary and other benefits of more than €1 million per annum, finds some way to honour his company’s moral obligations to the workers at The Sunday Tribune. I don’t doubt what his father would do if he, rather than his son, was the boss.”
Go The Matt, etc.
Sadly It’s Time To Mourn The Passing Of A Fine Newspaper (Matt Cooper, Irish Examiner)
(Photocall Ireland)
Translation: Please DO NOT GIVE any vote to FF candidate Mary Fitzpatrick. Will you do this one last thing for little auld Bertie?
Via Maman Poulet
Top: Vincent Browne and Justine McCarthy. Centre: former staff and fellow journalists outside Independent House. Bottom: Sunday Tribune sub-editor Deirdre Sheeran, left, and arts editor Olivia Doyle
Taken this afternoon on Talbot Street, Dublin. NUJ-organised protest at the closure of The Sunday Tribune with the loss of 49 jobs. The paper was part-owned by the Independent Group.
A tribute Tribune front page put together for staff by the paper’s chief sub/assistant editor Ger Siggins.
(Photocall Ireland)
To get to the other side.
Alpha White
He means Gay Mitchell.
He is literally unable to write the word.
Potential coalition partners Michael Noonan and Joan Burton argued about cutting child benefit on this morning’s ‘Today with Pat Kenny’ (on the sideline was an amused Brian Lenihan).
If you thought the Greens and Fianna Fail were disfunctional…
Joan Burton: “I think Fine Gael need to think about this. Effectively, Michael, your plan is to take about €250 a year, about €21 a month, from a family –”
Michael Noonan: “No, that’s not right, Joan. That’s not right. Your figures are wrong.”
Burton: “Michael, just let me finish – from a family, from a family…”
Noonan: “Could I say something, Joan? You know, you’re into magic bean economics.”
Pat Kenny: “Hang on a second.”
Noonan: “Labour aren’t going to do anything about anything. They’re going to pay more money to everybody. Do you realise the crisis we’re in? What happened to you over the Christmas?”
Burton: “Michael. Sorry. Michael”
Noonan: “You were talking about the bailout and the crisis and the country is banjaxed. Do you remember that? And now you have no solution for anything. You just knock the Fine Gael proposals.”
Burton: “Michael. Michael…”
Pat Kenny [aside]: This’ll be a great coalition alright
Brian Lenihan: “[laughs] Think we’ll still need a strong Fianna Fáil in the Dáil”
Burton: “Michael, there’s a lot of big houses all around the country where, inside those houses, there’s actually very little money because people are at the pin of their collar paying their mortgages and the child benefit is a critical income support to put food on the table. I’m just asking you, Michael, to think about this..”
Noonan: “You’re spoofing Joan.”
Burton: “Michael, I understand –”
Noonan: “You’re pretending you can fix the economy without doing anything.”
Burton: “Michael.”
Noonan: “That’s your problem. It’s magic beans economics.”
Burton: “Michael, you sound like you’re shouting from Limerick..”
Noonan: “You’re a long way away, Joan…”
(Photocall Ireland)
And while demographic data on emigrants is scarce, many of those leaving are believed to be well-educated professionals—precisely the people Ireland needs to lead a recovery. “In a modern, knowledge-based economy, dense, diverse cities full of highly-skilled people are a critical competitive advantage,” says Mr. McHale. “If the most enterprising people leave, you undermine that advantage.”
Ireland’s loss is others’ gain, and global demand for Irish workers has increased dramatically. “We’ve had more inquiries over the last six weeks from companies targeting Irish people than we’ve ever had before,” says Stephen McLarnon, head of SGMC Media Group in Dublin, which organizes exhibitions for those wanting to work abroad. Mr. McLarnon says two-thirds of his current applicants have college degrees. Booths at SGMC’s next exhibition have been snapped up by federal and state governments in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.