Yesterday saw pro-democracy candidates win 90 per cent of seats in city elections, piling more pressure on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam (above)
It’s all going dreadfully wrong
For the ruling class down in Hong Kong
The town made a choice
To speak with one voice
And Carrie Lam’s not looking strong
Johnn Moynes
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Leinster House
On Saturday.
In The Irish Times.
Craig Hughes reported:
“Significant” and costly structural works had to be carried out to fit a €808,000 state-of-the-art printer into the Houses of the Oireachtas offices in Leinster House.
Internal emails show that Oireachtas officials miscalculated the measurements required for the Komori printer to fit into either of the two printing rooms in the building on Kildare Street.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the Oireachtas estimated the work required to accommodate the printer would cost €236,000. This included tearing down walls and embedding structural steel in order to give it the height clearance it needs to operate.
…While the printer has been installed at Kildare House, it is not currently in use due to an industrial relations stand-off between the Oireachtas and staff tasked with using the machine, who argue they need to be remunerated for work that requires up-skilling.
Works of at least €230,000 required to fit printer in Oireachtas (Craig Hughes, The Irish Times)
More to follow.
MORE to follow.
Thank Broadsheet it’s Friday.
Never mind the miserable weather and sudden onset of Winter – there’s a free Golden Discs voucher to be won worth an ‘astronomical’ 25 Euros.
To be in with a chance of landing it, tell me below what is your favourite song which mentions the moon.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my Siamese twin.
Lines MUST close at 3.20pm EXTENDED until 6.30pm 10.30pm 6pm [Saturday]!
Nick says: Good luck!
Please include video link where possible.
Last week’s winner here
From top: NUJ members at RTE last week; Ryan Tubridy (top) and from left, Joe Duffy , Ray D’Arcy and Marian Finucane
This afternoon.
Martin Wall, in The Irish Times, reports:
Journalists at RTÉ want salaries for top presenters and other senior figures at the broadcaster to be capped at the maximum level of €208,000 paid to the most senior civil servants in the country.
Journalists at the broadcaster said the proposal by management to cut the pay of top-level contract presenters by 15 per cent “does not go far enough”.
The RTÉ sub-branch of the overall Dublin broadcasting branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) passed a motion at a meeting on Thursday calling on RTÉ management to move immediately to reduce payments to top presenters.
Meanwhile…
NUJ Dublin Broadcasting tweetz:
NUJ members working in RTÉ have called on the broadcaster to stop paying what we believe are “indefensible” high fees & salaries to a small few presenters & managers.
We understand & share public concern about exorbitant salaries.
We note that the Dutch have pegged all top state & semi state salaries – including national broadcaster – to that of their Prime Minister’s €187,000. This was in response to public outcry at top salary levels. We approve!
RTÉ journalists want €208,000 cap on pay of top presenters and management (RTÉ)
Previously: It Was A Very Good Year
Would it kill you to buy Brillo pads?
Not exoplanets, rather, the underside of pots and pans shot against a black background by photographer Christoper Jonassen.
