Yesterday.
Brown Thomas, Dublin 2
Models Teodora Sutra (above right) and Maria Traynor (above left). sporting creations from CREATE 2019, the annual showcase from BTs that “shines a light on Ireland’s most exciting and up-and-coming irish design talent”
This morning.
School of Business, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2
Former Irish President Mary Robinson addresses The Biennial Delegate Conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) on climate change denial….
Meanwhile…
Princess Haya: Dubai ruler’s wife in UK ‘in fear of her life’ (BBC)
Meanwhile...
FYI, #MaryRobinson: #FreeLatifa is still my friend. And she’s not a “troubled woman”, like you claimed in Dec. She just wants freedom. Now that #PrincessHaya has also fled, it’s about time you reverse your false comments #HumanRights @TheElders https://t.co/NmmwXWUHNG
— supermarko (@supermarko7) July 3, 2019
Dubai’s Princess Haya ‘is still my friend’, says Mary Robinson (Irish Times)
Yesterday: All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Four M3 amphibious rigs do an impressive thing at a bike festival in Großenwieden, filmed by German YouTuber HD1080ide.
Yes, burning this much diesel to transport bikes across a short stretch of water is ridiculous.
Still.
Pontoon trucks!
From top: Larry Goodman at Dublin Castle for the Beef Tribunal in 1991; Solidarity–People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe
Yesterday.
During a meeting of the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach.
Solidarity–People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy asked Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe about a story which appeared in The Irish Times yesterday concerning the Goodman Group established by Larry Goodman,
Journalist Colm Keena reported that nine companies in the group made a profit of €170 million last year and had assets worth more than €3.45 billion – with the “bulk of the profits” booked in Luxembourg and “largely untaxed”.
Mr Goodman was at the centre of the Beef Tribunal in 1991, where it was eventually revealed that, under the then Fianna Fáil government between 1987 and 1989, his companies benefited from financial concessions, special arrangements and a change in the tax law to protect their income.
Mr Murphy and the minster had this exchange yesterday:
Paul Murphy: “In the papers today is the Goodman Group making a profit of €170million last year reportedly and paying, effectively, zero taxes through filing accounts in Luxembourg.
“The double taxation agreement that appears to still be operative with Luxembourg is from 1972 so it was written, it was agreed a couple of years after the one with the Netherlands. Is that an agreement you’re looking at revising or adjusting or think that, certainly from this vantage point, it would seem to be a problem if someone can make, or a corporation can make such amount of profits and be enabled effectively to pay zero tax on it.”
Paschal Donohoe: “So, as I said in relation to another question earlier on [from Labour TD Joan Burton], I’m not going to comment on the tax affairs of any particular company or individual.
“But in answer to your other question, in relation to our DTA [Double Taxation Agreement] between Ireland and Luxembourg, we will be updating that via use of the multi-lateral convention.”
Watch back in full here
Nine Goodman companies made largely untaxed profit of €170m (Colm Keena, The Irish Times)
Top pic: Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
Look up.
For pity’s sake.
Spaghetti Hoop writes:
I see the lack of spatial awareness every day in Dublin. In Dublin Airport, I witnessed an off-boarder bash and bloody her nose while striking a pillar when texting. Called for help obv.
Seriously, be alert on the street; you are not only missing so much in spatial sound and awareness, but you are not safe traversing a city….
That’s YOU.
Interesting, government give clear indication!!!!! @rtenews @Independent_ie @irishexaminer @thetimesIE @journal_ie pic.twitter.com/LbJBa7NcAc
— Mary Butler TD (@MaryButlerTD) July 2, 2019
Hmmm.
Dublin’s 100th annual Liffey Swim takes place on Saturday, August 3.
To mark the occasion, and in a nod to Jack B Yeats, Stoneybatter-based Damn Fine Print are creating a number of strictly limited edition prints by a number of artists including Annie Atkins, Steve Simpson, M&E, Fuschia Macaree, Peter Donnelly, Alan Dunne, Niall McCormack.
They’ll go on show at the Om Diva atelier, 27 Drury Street, Dublin 2, from Wednesday, August 1 to Tuesday, August 13.
Damn Fine Print’s Creative Director Kim Willoughby writes:
“There’ll be a launch night on the opening Wednesday after which the prints will be for sale in the Om Diva gallery on Drury Street and at DamnFinePrint.com for €90 each, unframed.
“They’re all strictly limited editions though so be quick if you’re thinking of nabbing a commemorative print for yourself or someone taking part in the swim.”
“…There’s something really magical about seeing hundreds of people swimming through the middle of our capital and we’ve hoping to immortalise that with a series of fun prints by some of the finest illustrators working in Ireland today.”
All prints glow at night.
Kidding.
Irish-made stuff to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has been nominated by EU leaders to replace Jean-Claude ‘Drunker’ Juncker as European Commission President. EU leaders will nominate their choice for President of the European Parliament today
Soberer than the last boss.
However…
The new European Commission President folks:
“My goal is the United States of Europe – based on the model of the federal states of Switzerland, Germany or the US.”
Who said the European project was to form a United States of Europe? 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/PuMgAkQbjw
— Thomas Evans (Liberal Brexiteer) (@ThomasEvansSDP) July 2, 2019
Scheiss.
Who is Ursula von der Leyen, the surprise compromise as European Commission president? (DW)
Thanks John Gallen
