Between 2-6pm.
At CYMS Hall Irishtown Road, Dublin 4.
bring a gift.
Via RITE
Saturday.
Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Scenes from the Movember MoRun charity event raising money for cancer awareness.
Colour Run
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Stop that tyke in white pink!
Rob Cross tweetz:
My restored and colourised 1969 photo of a man sitting outside a furniture shop in Merchant’s Arch, Temple Bar, Dublin City taken by photographer Elinor Wiltshire. Btw, the boy is three-year-old Colm Irwin and apparently he was carrying a toy gun.
Oh.
Liam writes:
Timing a bit unfortunate! Also, so nice of her to give up a whole hour a month for her constituents. My God ,you could meet maybe a whole two people in that time, what a committed public servant!
Previously: Font Farewell
You may recall the excellent animated web series Poxy Bleedin Shop?
Well…
Creator Thomas Quain writes:
I am currently looking for support for a second season.
Poxy Bleedin Shop’ is an original five part comedic animated web series about working a terrible job, in this case, an off-license, but not just any off license, this is the worst off license in Dublin – a shop that gets robbed 6 times every 4 weeks!
This animated web series is based on real events in my life and I think if it gets out there with the support that all art needs it does have the potential to resonate with contemporary mass audiences not just in Ireland but also abroad.
I already have season 2 written up and a lot of pre-production art completed. I feel I have written some great scenes for season 2 and want to introduce a number of new characters and so I am excited about the opportunity to dive back into exploring this world in greater detail
In fairness.
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At a Ballyhea Says No protest in North Cork
Diarmuid Flynn writes:
Last protest march of 2019, continuing our campaign against the imposition of private bank debt on the public purse.
On the 19th Nov our National Treasury Management Agency announced that ‘NTMA cancels €500 million of the Irish Floating Rate Treasury Bond 2051’.
That’s a Promissory Note bond, the 4th such announcement this year. In plain English, it means that in exchange for four of the Prom Note bonds created when IBRC was liquidated, our NTMA has given 4 x €500 million to our Central Bank this year, that’s €2 billion, billions it had already borrowed on the open markets and for which we are now liable.
What the announcement DOESN’T say, however, is what the Central Bank did with those billions. To ‘cancel’ that €500 million, the Central Bank actually destroys the entire amount.
It’s all done via computer of course; there isn’t a van-load of hard currency delivered from the NTMA office to the Central Bank vault, there to be physically burned – a push of a button here, and the €500 million appears on the Central Bank books, a push of a button there and PUFF, it disappears, gone.
Four times this year this has happened, €2 billion borrowed and burned, and not a word of protest in the Irish media, not even a word by way of inquiry, even as pages are filled (justifiably so) on the waste of billions on the National Childrens’ Hospital, on the National Broadband Plan.
But we in Ballyhea Says Know continue to campaign, we continue to march. I will sit and debate this with anyone, anywhere, on any platform. Meanwhile, you’re welcome to join us this Sunday.
Private rooms and houses/apartments listed on Airbnb’s Dublin lettings on August 19, 2018; Airbnb logo
Yesterday.
In the Sunday Business Post.
Ian Guider reported:
An Irish-registered unit of Airbnb made a profit of €80 million last year, the first time the financial arrangements of the accommodation bookings giant in Europe have been revealed.
The profit generated by Airbnb International Unlimited Company compared with a loss of nearly €72 million in the previous year.
The recently-filed accounts show for the first time the profitability of Airbnb in Ireland, and are a result of a change in Irish company law that now requires businesses with unlimited liability status to file details of their finances.
The company, which has a registered address at a Dublin law firm, is responsible for Airbnb’s operations outside the United States and China.
…The filings show the company paid $42 million in tax out of its profits during the year, but does not disclose the countries in which the tax was paid.
Meanwhile…
In the same newspaper yesterday, Aaron Rogan reported:
Dubliners who live in luxury are being asked to nominate their homes for a “super-exclusive” new Airbnb-style platform.
Will McGlade, the 28-year-old son of Paul McGlade, the founder of Champion Sports and the beauty clinic chain Therapie Group, has launched HipHipStay, which he said aims to manage the top 1 per cent of short-term lettings in the capital.
To be considered, the properties must be located in lively areas of the city centre, and their decor must have a certain “cool kind of swagger”, McGlade said.
Irish arm of Airbnb made €80m in 2019 (Ian Guider, Business Post)
Owners of high-end Dublin homes sought for ‘super-exclusive’ website (Aaron Rogan, Business Post)
Previously: Red Alert
Pic: Rob Cross
The National Broadband Plan contract being signed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister Richard Bruton and National Broadband Ireland’s David McCourt at St Kevin’s National School, Wicklow last week
Yesterday.
In The Sunday Times.
Justine McCarthy reported:
Fianna Fail is demanding the government explain how a previously undisclosed private investor in the €5bn national broadband plan (NBP) became involved in the state’s most expensive infrastructural development, and on what terms, writes Justine McCarthy.
The involvement of a third American investment firm emerged on Tuesday when the contract was signed.
Previously, Leo Varadkar, the taoiseach, and Richard Bruton, the communications minister, had told the Dail that Granahan McCourt, the winning bidder, and Tetrad Corporation, an associated company, were the sole private funders involved.
Oak Hill (OHA (UK) LLP) was named in a Department of the Taoiseach press release issued at a news conference on Tuesday as providing some of the €220m equity and capital investment required of the winning bidder under the terms of the contract. The state is putting up a subsidy of €2.9bn.
No information was given about how much of the €220m Oak Hill is providing.
