Behold: the 2020 BMW 7 Series. Characterised by a trademark Twin Kidney grille that’s 40% larger than that worn by the previous model, the new 7’s design is somewhat polarising.
With the exception of the rear-wheel drive base model 745i, every other variant, from the 4.4 litre, 600bhp, V8 to the 6.6 litre V12 features all-wheel x-Drive.
Due for release this summer, price to be announced.
The average salary of tenants living in Dublin’s docklands rose to €117,095 last year, more than double what it was three years ago as the rental market in the city’s central business district continued to heat up.
Data from Owen Reilly, a docklands-based real estate agency, shows that three-bedroom apartments in the area recorded the most significant percentage rise last year, asking 12 per cent more than in 2017. The average rental price stood at €4,166.
Average salary of Dublin docklands tenant rose to €117,095 in 2018 (Irish Times)
Pic: owenreilly.ie
Harassed and tried to be bribed into saying #JobPath company was able to give full-time job (just so they could collect later bonuses off taxpayer in the wrong – fraud). #UnitedPeople – NOT the only case reported to UP. pic.twitter.com/GOERHL4tPj
— J.Rudd (@jeffrudd31) January 23, 2019
What?
Anyone?
Related: Eamonn Kelly Jobpath Goodbye
Behold: the world’s tallest outdoor lift – the 326m (1,070 feet) Bailong Elevator at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China.
Completed in 2002, the lift takes two minutes to convey 50 passengers at a time up a sandstone cliff face to overlook the historic site of Wulingyuan and the rock formations that inspired the Hallelujah Mountains of Pandora in James Cameron’s Avatar.
Um.
At Davos.
Bono announcing a new organisation with his private equity firm TPG that will help investors “effectively understand the impact of their decisions” and that money given to benefit society actually benefits society.
*cough*
U2’s Bono and TPG Launch Company to Measure ‘Impact Investments’ (Wall Street Journal)
Top pic: Rollingnews
Thanks JohnnyNYC
Top from left: Dr Edward Mathews, Phil Ni Sheaghdha and Tony Fitzpatrick, of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), at the Workplace Relations Commission this afternoon
Phil Ní Sheaghdha [General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation] said the HSE had indicated that of the 2,000 workers they intend to employ next year, only 300 will be in nursing and midwifery grades – at a time when there are over 2,000 nursing vacancies.
She said this demonstrated the lack of urgency which health management is attaching to addressing the fundamental difficulties which were triggering longer waiting lists, longer waits in emergency departments, and longer waits to implement a strategy on increasing capacity.
‘Substantive measures’ needed to defer nurses strike – INMO (RTÉ)
Ah here.
The latest The Phoenix magazine.
On shelves now.
Update:
One of early debates was actually about expenses, allowances & Dev’s salary! Markievicz believed it was not right to discuss this during a war but added 3rd class travel was sufficient but others disagreed & secured the cash for the TDs. DeV got less than £££ suggested by Brugha.
— Dominic Price (@DominicAPrice7) January 23, 2019
FIGHT!
From top: National Children’s Hospital site this morning; National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Project Director John Pollock; Stephen Donnelly, Fianna Fáil health spokesman, and the Department of Health’s Assistant Secretary Tracey Conroy at a meeting of the Oireachtas health committee today
This afternoon.
At a meeting of the Oireachtas health committee – which is discussing the overspend at the new National Children’s Hospital with representatives from the Department of Health and the HSE…
The committee heard that, last August, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board warned the Department of Health and Minister for Health Simon Harris that the cost of the National Children’s Hospital could top a billion euro.
Last month The Irish Times reported the total cost for developing the facility at St James’s Hospital was expected to be more than €1.73 billion.
Fianna Fáil TD Stephen Donnelly pointed out that Irish taxpayers will pay over twice as much per bed at the NCH as the two most expensive hospitals ever built in the world.
Mr Donnelly repeatedly asked Ms Conroy if she believed this represents a “catastrophic failure of management”.
Eventually, Ms Conroy said “I don’t”.
Watch the exchange here from 35.35.
Meanwhile…
On @RTENewsAtOne, Claire Byrne says the €200m raised by the Govt through the sale of the National Lottery in 2011, and earmarked for the construction of the new children's hospital, will now only "pay for a couple of windows at this stage".
— Colette Browne (@colettebrowne) January 23, 2019
Watch the meeting live here
Meanwhile…
WATCH: Department of Health describes cost escalation of the new children’s hospital project as ‘very significant and disturbing’. Dept’s Assistant General Secretary Colm Desmond is before the Oireachtas Health Committee pic.twitter.com/ooYT3PP866
— RTÉ Politics (@rtepolitics) January 23, 2019
