Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda runs through Broadway idiom for Vanity Fair’s Slang School.
Previously: Know Your Korean Slang
Former presidential hopeful Peter Casey
Laura Slattery, in The Irish Times, reports:
Peter Casey, the candidate in October’s presidential election, is recording a series of “individual reports” for Newstalk, the radio station owned by Denis O’Brien.
However, a spokesman denied that he was being given his own regular show or that he was a potential replacement for the weekend slot vacated by George Hook.
Mr Casey, who finished second in the presidential election with 23 per cent of the vote, is understood to be authoring several 15-20 minute segments for the Communicorp station, which will run across its main weekday shows.
Presidential candidate Peter Casey is Newstalk’s latest recruit (The Irish Times)
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Last night.
On RTÉ’s Six One News.
Journalist Paul Cunningham interviewed former Minister for Communications Denis Naughten about Peter Smyth’s report into the National Broadband Plan procurement process and Mr Naughten’s engagements with David McCourt.
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Naughten met with bidder to ‘keep them at the table’ (RTE)
Previously: Breaking His Own Rules
Last night.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Pro choice protestors calling for free, safe, legal abortion in Ireland, while inside Leinster House…
Simon Harris said he was “delighted” to have changed his mind on abortion over the past seven years in response to accusations that he was untrustworthy on the issue.
The health minister had promised to oppose any change to Ireland’s abortion law in 2011 before his U-turn.
He was speaking as a landmark bill to legalise access to abortion last night failed to clear its last stages in the Dáil. It means that the report stage of the bill will finish in the lower house next week, at the earliest. The government is under pressure to meet a promise it made after May’s referendum to have legal abortion services in place in Ireland by January .
The bill still needs to complete its report and final stage in the Dáil and also make its way through the Seanad before the parliament breaks for Christmas.
Simon Harris defends U-turn on abortion (The Times Ireland Edition)
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Brian Hutton, in The Irish Times, reports:
“Revenue has apologised to about 1,500 people after wrongly taking hundreds of thousands of euro from their bank accounts over recent days as a result of a “payment processing” error.
Homeowners were unexpectedly hit with their local property tax (LPT) weeks before Christmas, despite having made direct debit arrangements with Revenue for the sums to be deducted next year.
The Irish Times has learned that more than €830,000 was taken from bank accounts in error.”
Property tax wrongly taken from accounts weeks before Christmas (Brian Hutton, The Irish Times)
Dublin Cycling tweets:
Our next #LiffeyCycle takes place on Sunday 9th December at 11am, starting & finishing in Grand Canal Square. It will be followed directly afterwards by a #BusConnects workshop. More details on our website.
From top: Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe; Latest family homless figures
Yesterday evening.
The Department of Housing published the homeless figures for October.
They show there were 5,999 adults, 1,709 families and 3,725 children – a total of 9,724 individuals – staying in State-funded emergency accommodation in the final week of October.
This means the number of adults accessing emergency accommodation has increased by 133, the number of families has decreased by 44 and the number of children has also decreased by 104.
The official Department of Housing homeless figures do not include the number of people who are sleeping rough across Ireland.
This morning.
On RTÉ’s Morning Ireland…
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe was asked about the latest homeless figures and he said they represented “a great personal challenge” for everyone in Government and it’s something they know “they need to do better on and we challenge ourselves every day to see how we can do it”.
He added:
“I know what the new figures are for the number of people who are homeless. I’m aware of the fact that we’re above 10,000. As against that, we have additional money going this year into our homeless hubs, homeless services and, next year, we’ll be spending the highest amount we ever have on housing.
“We are seeing more homes being built, we’ll deliver around 18,000 to 19,000 homes this year and I’ve made available a further €60million towards the end of this year to invest in services. It’s something that is a really solemn responsibility for us all on, to do better on and we’re working to do that.”
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258 runners were caught cheating in Shenzhen’s half marathon last Sunday
Could anything be as much fun
As a nice gentle thirteen mile run?
And if you find your feet
Are exhausted, just cheat
As hundreds of others have done
John Moynes
Pic: AP