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news as it is happening-ish

Taken within the last hour.

You couldn’t make it up.

And we haven’t.

No Photoshop trickery. 

Jewish people call it chutzpah.

The Builders by Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan tells how a group of wide-boy developers “fuelled the building boom and transformed Ireland”.
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Yay. Dublin’s Convention Centre is opening today! 

Well done, Treasury Holdings.

The Irish Times are calling it the Cube with the Tube (LOLz).

We’re calling it The Convention Centre That Was Going To Have The Big Phallic Hotel Behind It Before Johnny Ronan Became Flaccid:

Ah 2007.

Why do you tease us so?

John Gormley has told RTE News he will be watching tonight’s documentary on our economic collapse with “great interest”.

Freefall (9.35pm, RTE 1) reveals the government was told of Anglo’s insolvency by executives from Bank of Ireland and AIB – hours before it signed off on the bank guarantee. 

This will be news to John because on that particular night he chose to stay in bed.

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