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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbR40vf64SU
Created by the man himself apparently. No, really.
In the end, he was too many Jims for one station.
(Thanks to the Northsider)
This just in:
The Emerald Isle’s national debt officials have pulled off an impressive performance Tuesday, selling €1.5 billion of bonds in a sale that was closely watched for signs of trouble given resurfacing worries about financial problems in the euro zone.
In a sign of the confidence investors still have in Ireland, the country sold €500 million of bonds maturing in 2014, paying an average interest rate of 3.627%. The size of investor demand was more than five times the amount of new bonds on offer.
Confetti. Limerick-style.
“GARDAI were forced to police a wedding at the weekend after onlookers began to throw rocks and eggs at the newlyweds…Gardai confirmed they increased their presence after crowds began to form outside the church where “tensions had escalated”, but denied 40 members of the force were required.”
Onlookers Threw Rocks And Eggs At Newlyweds (Irish Independent)
Yes.
Lucy Kennedy.
It’s OK. She’s married.
Derek won’t have to make the big switch.
Ker. Tish.
(Oh and this is just another bloody attack on the institutions of the Debs Ball, etc., etc.).
Crystal Swinger To Live It Up With Lucy (Olivia Kelleher, Irish Independent)
From The Irish Times front page today:
BETWEEN 10 and 15 per cent of the civil ceremonies conducted across the country may be “sham marriages” aimed purely at circumventing immigration rules, one of the country’s main marriage registrars has warned.
Blimey.
Scary isn’t it? Let’s see:
This is the unchallenged anecdotal evidence (“10-15 per cent”) of one man, Dennis Prior, a superintendant registrar from the HSE. He calls sham marriages an “attack on marriage”. Which they are not. When they happen they usually involve people desperate to stay in the country (like the Irish in New York). Also an “Attack on marriage”? As if marriage was sleeping soundly when the Sham Marriages broke in.
He complains that registrars cannot block marriages (huh?) and says “officials” are keen (irony alert) to introduce Green Card- style interviews. We gather Castlerea holding centre is free.
And then there’s this:
But an increase in suspected sham marriages has been noted all over the country as non-EU nationals – typically from Pakistan and India – seek residency after marrying an EU citizen, according to Mr Prior.
Which means nothing, says nothing and does nothing except to cast doubt over any recent Irish civil ceremonies between Europeans and Indians/Pakistanis.
The story concludes thusly:
If the plans under consideration were implemented, couples could face more detailed questions, such as how they first met; if they lived together; what they had for breakfast; and to provide photographs of themselves together, said Mr Prior.
Still. the grammar is perfect.
We feel a lot better now getting that off our chests. Good morning.
Registrar Warns Of Rapid Rise In Sham Marriages (Irish Times)
Relax. It happened in 1832.
But they’ve just had a look at the skulls.
There’s a bullet hole in one.
And he wasn’t the suicidal type.
Irish Bones Yield Murderous Secrets In PA. (Yahoo News)
Rupert Murdoch is launching a newspaper for the iPad. You only need one hand, see?
Once More Again Into The Breach: Murdoch Dreams Of A Digital Newspaper (Blog -Vanity Fair.com)
Electricians at St James’s Hospital are having a one-day strike today.
It’s about the outsourcing of responsibility for fire alarms.
They want only electricians to reset them if they go off.
It’s like Paris in ’68.
“I had that clinically-obese Health Minister in the cab once, lovely she was…I’ve had them all. Cowen. I told him, I said, ‘I don’t care if you’re the Taoiseach you can’t throw up in the back’, etc., etc.”
Ministers Using Government Jet Like A Taxi (Irish Independent)