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news as it is happening-ish

You’ve been listening to Liveline.

Seems the Taoiseach was having a cigarette in the stadium after the Dublin-Cork game on Sunday. Turns out he’s sitting in an open area not designated for smoking.

And a bloke called up Joe. Cowen’s office rang in to RTE to apologise.

‘It could have been another Bradford,” said nobody outside the stadium. A terrified passer by did not add: “You would have thought the leader of the country would know where to smoke.”

Still. It’s good to know he’s back on the cigs. We all are.

Either people are having babies or they’ve taken up smoking again.  

In the Broadsheet office we’re back to the 30-day habit we ditched during the ‘golden years’. Karl, meanwhile, has been chewing the little gangsters ever since Larry Murphy’s release.

PS Cowen’s Choice of Cigarette? We’re thinking Carroll’s.

PPS We know that’s biscuit not a cigarette.


They know you know.

“So it is being reported that the CAO website is down due to a “cyber attack”. That’s bull, the site is down because thousands and thousands of students are trying to get onto to see if they screwed up their future and the idiot people who run the site didn’t build the server to be able to take that many people, so it crashed. Its not a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack people, the CAO web people didn’t think their server and hosting through. Looks like of you want your results right now, you’ll have to fork out €1.50 for a paper…”

Hmm. More as we get it.