Former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean Fitzpatrick

Go about your business.

Simon Carswell, in The Irish Times, reports:

The full reasons why the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick collapsed may never be made public after a State watchdog decided to withhold a lengthy report on the case.

Director of Corporate Enforcement Ian Drennan has withdrawn his offer to provide a 415-page report on the case to an Oireachtas committee because it could not give him guarantees he wanted to legally protect him and his office from “litigation risk and associated financial exposure”

Good times.

Full report on Anglo trial collapse may never be made public (Simon Carswell, The Irish Times)

Pic: Rollingnews

Brexit And You (Gov.ie)

CTA?

Last night.

A campus-wide ban on the Irish Daily Star was re-affirmed by the university’s Students Union for another three years.

The paper was removed from sale at the college in 2015 after it featured a photo on its front page of the five UCD Students’ who were killed in the Berkeley balcony collapse  “in a very despicable manner”.

Meanwhile…

Seán McCárthaigh, in The Times Ireland, reports:

A €1.4 million safe cycling plan across several south Dublin suburbs has effectively been scrapped. Councillors voted for the second time in a year against holding a public consultation on the South Dublin “Quiet Way” between Donnybrook and Kimmage.

The plan was “dead in the water”, according to one politician, after councillors rejected spending more on the project after opposition from residents along several parts of the route over road closures and the loss of parking.

Dublin cycle route ‘dead in the water’ after second defeat (The Times Ireland)

Pic: Quietway Feasibility Study

Former Trócaire worker, County Tyone-born, Honduras-based Sally O’Neill (left), working for the Fund For Global Human Rights, was among four killed when the car she was traveling in came off a road in Guatemala on Sunday night (top).

Fund Mourns Loss of Colleagues in Guatemala (Fund For Global Human Rights)

Tributes paid to ‘heartbeat of Trócaire’ Sally O’Neill (RTÉ)

Trócaire stalwart Sally O’Neill dies in car crash in Guatemala (Irish Times)

Irlandesa y mexicana murieron en accidente en Huehuetenango (Soy502)

Fund For Global Human Rights?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Health Simon Harris

*sigh*

Simon Harris says Leo Varadkar would beat him in a ‘press up’ contest (Independent.ie)

Rollingnews

Thanks Bebe

UPDATE:

VFX lab Corridor Crew superimposes the ships and machines of Star Wars on real world backgrounds.

Fascinating, if you can make it through the Brilliant Kid hyperbole.

And his frankly inexplicable pronunciation of ‘Vader’ and ‘Jedi’.

awesomer

Director of the United States Secret Service Randolph Alles has been fired amid a shake-up in the upper echelon of the Department of Homeland Security

So Trump has come up with a scheme
To purge his security team
In case some of them
Are secretly “Dem”
Which seems to be rather extreme

John Moynes

Pic: Getty

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