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Children Used To Target Off Licences And Pubs (RTE.ie)

School Principal: “Quiet everyone, the minister is about to speak.”
Ahern: “You fellas have everything ahead of you.  Don’t let yourselves get into this state.”
[plays excerpt from recent Morning Ireland interview]
Pupil: “Jesus Christ!”
Ahern: “See me after class.”

Results of Ireland’s highly watched bond auction are out, and the news is double-edged.
Yes, Ireland did get €1bn of 2018 and €500m of 2014 bonds sold, but the country had to pay handsomely to get the debt away. The yield on the 2018 issue came in at an average 6.023 per cent, while the average on the 2014 issue was 4.767 per cent.

It wouldn’t have happened in his day.

Weather forecaster Vincent O’Shea has just felt a very cold front by Liveline Listeners.

They said he was under the influence reading the weather on radio yesterday.

Which would be odd for a Corkman after his county just won the All-Ireland.

Official RTE response: ‘Adverse reaction to prescribed medication’.

We’re calling it Son of BlottoGate.

So, the six London men arrested in a suspected ‘terrorist plot’ against Pope Benedict XVI were released without charge late Saturday night.

But look closely at this screen-shot of another article about the Pope’s British visit on the BBC News website, taken yesterday afternoon. Notice anything strange?

That ad on the right perhaps? For Veolia: the cleaning company contracted by Westminster Council. The company whose name was bandied about for all the wrong reasons lately as the employer of all six alleged ‘terrorists’.

Coincidence? Or quick-thinking, PR-restoring viral marketing?

Works either way.

(Conspiracy-theorised by Diddley)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcIm9EmgJ20

Has anyone actually seen the ‘reports on YouTube’ that golfer Philip Walton is referring to? You know, the ones ‘of concern’ to his children featuring Cowen’s impression of their dad at the Ardilaun?

We’ve tried every combination of search terms we can think of and turned up nothing. Jack. Not even footage of Walton playing golf. The gratitude of a baffled nation to whoever finds the elusive recordings.

While we wait, here’s Kevin Pollak doing Captain Kirk.

 

 

O’Leary Analytics?

They’ve been monitoring the global coverage (including social network/ Twitter interface) of the Cowen story. They just got a mention in the Washington Post.

Who’s the kid?

Stephen O’Leary.

That’s a coincidence.

No. He is O’Leary Analytics.

How did he get on in the Junior Cert?

He has degree in journalism and Media Communications from Griffith College Dublin. After graduating he went to Cork and worked on the Irish Examiner.

How high-tech of him.

After the Examiner he returned  to Dublin to work with Meltwater, a Norwegian software company. He launched O’Leary Analytics in November 2009.

Financial situation?

100% privately funded.

How does he do the things he does

O’Leary Analytics apparently acquired a license for a new social media monitoring tool. We can find no record of such a device. But Stephen says it opens up a listing of “over 220 million sources, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and message forums. Information that can be monitored and analysed: sentiment, ‘demographics, readership, geographical spread, key influencers, and the comparison of campaigns’.

Sounds like complete horseshit to me

Long day?

So he just uses Google like the rest of us?

Probably

So who monitors the monitor as he monitors?

That’d be us.

Will he come and work for us?

No. He plans to make money

Ok. Thanks

You’re most welcome.

O’Leary Analytics