Sound familiar? #vancouver pic.twitter.com/ch902EMkD9
— Julian Fleming (@julianfleming) January 16, 2014
Tara Perkins (above) of Canada’s Globe and Mail has packed a parachute.
More Power to her.
Housing market edges toward soft landing (Tara Perkins, The Globe and Mail)
Strangford MP Jim Shannon (above) believes the BBC children’s programme Teletubbies could change attitudes in North Korea. The DUP man has backed a House of Commons motion that calls for BBC programmes to be extended to the Korean peninsula.
The early day motion says: “The broadcast of programmes like Teletubbies would change the attitudes of the North Korean dictatorship, which has incarcerated more than 200,000 of its citizens in gulags.” The Strangford MP said it was “really important to have the BBC in North Korea”.
Teletubbies ‘could transform North Korea’ says DUP MP Jim Shannon (Stephen Walker, BBC NI)
Hardcore underlinage.
Mike Hogan 4FM tweetz:
This was sent in to us today: A new way to crack down on welfare tourism?
Holly from Downtown Radio/Cool FM with the news this afternoon from Belfast.
BREAKING: Actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools & Horses, has died
— Holly Hamilton (@HollyHNews) January 16, 2014
No.
JP McManus golf pro-am, which raised €40m+ & drew Tiger Woods + galaxy of stars last time, NOT going ahead next yr. Story @Limerick_Leader
— Alan English (@AlanEnglish9) January 16, 2014
Tax residency laws limiting JP McManus’s time in Ireland being cited as reason for no golf pro-am in 2015. Full story in @Limerick_Leader
— Alan English (@AlanEnglish9) January 16, 2014
Meanwhile…
[Last weekend’s Sunday Times]
They tried to warn us but would we listen?
Previously: Exile On Mane Street
(PA)
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Enda Cunningham, Iain Henderson, Brian Oliver, Paul Murphy, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Joe Donnelly.
![SUN: SUN-PAGES-NEWS [1RM] ... 15/01/14](http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SUN011RM15-27595.jpg)
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Patrick Conboy, Iain Henderson, Meliosa Fitzgibbon, Brian Oliver, Kieran McDaid and Joe Donnelly.
Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has lost his High Court challenge against an investigation by the Standards in Public Office Commission into alleged duplication of expenses claims.
He lost his challenge requiring his case to be heard by a commission comprising of bilingual members, who were able to conduct and understand the proceedings without the assistance of an interpreter.
The case relates to an investigation concerning travel and subsistence claims made by Mr Ó Domhnaill between 2006 and 2007, when he was a member of Donegal County Council.
Brian Ó Domhnaill loses challenge over expenses investigation (RTÉ News)
Previously: Never Go Full TD