Map of the day. From the Shell brochure about their planned shale gas project in E Ukraine…centred on Sloviansk! pic.twitter.com/FXA1qagwsH
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) April 28, 2014
They’ll be coming for Leitrim next.
Related: Shell to Drill First Wells in $10 Billion Ukrainian Project (Bloomberg, November 2013)
The Healy-Raes of Kilgarvan.
This is how they do.
(H/T: Donie Sullivan)
(Pic via Irish Election Literature)
Anon writes:
Received this flyer through my door. Former TD covers all bases. Roads, pylons and wind turbines.
Any excuse.
It’s after mid-night and our teams are covering the constituency.Good night from the night-shift. #DubW @electionlit pic.twitter.com/vjRDxVLg6g
— David McGuinness (@CllrMcGuinness) April 22, 2014
We’re gonna let it all hang out.
Meanwhile, this morning the Irish Times reports:
Today is the first day candidates and political parties are allowed to put up posters for the May 23rd elections, but numerous candidates began postering early yesterday, as well as over the weekend. All four local authorities said there were aware of posters being put up early in their areas, and there is a €150 fine for each individual poster put up illegally.
Candidates face €150 fine for each poster put up early (Irish Times)
James McAuley writes:
“This guy has my vote…”
The commonwealth debate.
Not as mad as it sounds.
Senior Conservative MP Michael Fabricant said yesterday that the proposal “is not so mad as it might at first seem. If a country like the Republic of Ireland joined the Commonwealth, what greater message could be sent to countries facing political upheaval and disputes on the other side of the world than an ancient country who had drawn a line under parts of its past, whilst promoting its future on the best parts of its heritage?” Mr Fabricant wrote on a website yesterday.
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson welcomed the suggestion. “We have long supported the idea that the Republic of Ireland should rejoin the Commonwealth,” he said. “After all, there are many republics including India who are a part of the Commonwealth and don’t feel in any sense that their sovereignty or independence is compromised.”
More public holidays (including July 12).
What’s not to like?
Brian O’Leary/Photocall Ireland
Fine Gael’s Dublin candidate for the European Parliament Brian Hayes launches his poster campaign on Kildare Street this morning.
He is pictured with an election poster of his from 1994 aged 24.
*sniff*
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
Sinn Fein’s Chris Hazzard thrills an Easter crowd. pic.twitter.com/yjypFQgSDj
— Newton Emerson (@NewtonEmerson) April 20, 2014
Was it for Zzzzz…?
The struggle for a good night’s kip will continue.
Easter commemoration in Lurgan, Co. Armagh yesterday.
[Editor of the Irish Times – Kevin O’Sullivan]
Sometimes, however, things fly in under the editorial radar. Martyn Turner’s cartoon [above] on Wednesday is a case in point. In making a legitimate argument about the debate over priestly responsibility for reporting child abuse and the concerns for the seal of the confessional, Turner also took an unfortunate and unjustified sideswipe at all priests, suggesting that none of them can be trusted with children. This has, unsurprisingly, caused considerable offence and we regret and apologise for the hurt caused by the cartoon whose use in that form, we acknowledge, reflected a regrettable editorial lapse.
An editorial lapse (Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
Breaking the confessional seal. pic.twitter.com/9ha1Eyfbbk
— Allan Cavanagh (@AllanCavanagh) April 18, 2014
Previously: Too Toon?
Pic: YouTube
Thanks Allan