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From top: NamaLeaks: Mick Wallace
Mick Wallce TD, a founder of the whistlebowing website, writes:
NAMAleaks.com has received a large variety of communications and documents in relation to NAMA, two in particular relate to –
1. Details of events in Northern Ireland, pre 2013, regarding the sale of the Northern Ireland Loan Portfolio, referencing individuals who have been arrested in Northern Ireland
2. Information on the procedures within NAMA regarding the Freedom of Information process, and deliberate attempts to conceal certain information.
Clearly, the information that has come in has reinforced our conviction that all is not well within the National Assets Management Agency.”
It is imperative that the Government immediately set up an arm of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, with extra powers and resources, to investigate NAMA, and that there is full anonymity given to whistleblowers
I plan to raise both of these issues in more detail, in the Dáil Chamber, in the coming weeks and months.”
If you have witnessed poor practice within NAMA, contact us securely and anonymously, at link below….
Previously: Nama Wine Leak
I am SO using the bus lanes tomorrow #gardastrike
— Lar Doyle (@lardoyle) November 3, 2016
‘sup?
In a statement this afternoon, the AGSI said that its negotiators have left the Labour Court and are now meeting its National Executive “to discuss issues raised during this morning’s meeting which began at 10am.
“This includes discussing a possible ballot of our members.”
The AGSI said that it is due to return to the Labour Court at 5pm.
Earlier the GRA asked 18 units, including organised crime and immigration, not to join their garda colleagues in tomorrow’s strike action.
It said this will ensure a skeletal service to protect the security of the State, prevent and detect serious crime and preserve vital evidence.
With less than 24 hours to go, tomorrow’s garda strike is still set to proceed.
More as we get it.
GRA and Dept of Justice officials summoned to Labour Court (RTÉ)
Rollingnews
Cork-set comedy The Young Offenders has been picked up for international sales this week.
Based on the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a road flick about two inner-city teenagers who look to cash in, when a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork, spilling 61 bales of cocaine.
According to ScreenDaily:
Carnaby Sales and Distribution has acquired international sales rights to Irish comedy The Young Offenders.
The film has proven a box office hit in its local market, taking €1m for Wildcard Distribution. Vertigo recently snapped the film up for UK, US and Australia/NZ.
The deal was brokered by Carnaby International’s Head of Acquisitions, Lorianne Hall, together with Peter Foott of Vico Films.
As mentioned, the film has already been picked up for UK, American and Aussie releases.
Daycent.
“It’s alarming that national media outlets and professional journalists can be so biased over the way news stories are crafted and presented in the race for the White House. That’s what the latest batch of WikiLeaks emails suggests,”
The collusion between major media outlets and the favored candidate, in this case Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, runs counter to the integrity upheld daily by a majority of hard-working community journalists in the United States,”
To date, the national media has acted more like a Clinton lapdog in its selective reporting on the campaign trail than a Clinton watchdog,” the editorial wrote, later adding, “Accountability is the only thing that can force Clinton to honor the best interests of America. And it must come from an unbiased media.”
Editorial in the The Lowell Sun, in the Democrat state of Massachusetts
New WikiLeaks Revelations Show Media Acting As ‘Clinton Lapdog’ (WesternJournalism)
Graph via Fox News
Meanwhile…
Report: Indictment “likely” in FBI’s Clinton Foundation probe https://t.co/TlMqXmARNW pic.twitter.com/9BLxHW7HYB
— The Hill (@thehill) November 3, 2016
The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email (Sharyl Attkinson)
Do you know how Seinfeld could have been better?
If it were an anime dating game.
No soup for you, etc.
Play HERE
The 2016 installment of the Other Voices festival in Dingle, and attendant tapings for the TV series of the same name, were announced today in a video (above) featuring headliner Lisa Hannigan.
Heading into its fifteenth series, it remains one of the few outlets on Irish television for independent music.
Liza Geddes writes:
Between Friday 2nd and Sunday 4th of December, Lisa will join a slew of Irish and international artists to record the fifteenth series of the music TV show, which airs on RTÉ2 in 2017. The St. James’s Church recordings will be hosted by BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, Dublin born/London made DJ and broadcaster Annie Mac and Fight Like Apes‘ leading light May Kay.
In an exclusive Other Voices performance filmed in Berlin, Lisa confirmed appearances in Dingle from internationally breaking Dublin hip hop artist Rejjie Snow, much lauded UK singer and writer Pixie Geldof, Californian musician and singer Margaret Glaspy, Rough Trade signed Irish indie act Girl Band and Mobo nominated musician, poet and artist Kojey Radical.
These and many more emerging and legacy artists will travel to Dingle for the December sessions.
Lisa also performed the track Snow from her latest No. 1 album At Swim, a taster of what to expect from the festival.
Tickets are will be given away free in various competitions, keep an eye on ’em here.
Designers bent into the shape of the brand logos they founded by Netherlands based artist Mike Frederiqo.
Last week.
Staumullen, Co Meath
Photgrapaher Donal Moloney writes:
The last time I witnessed a Fox Hunting scene was on the place mats my Granny used to wheel out to impress the visiting aunts and uncles. This would be accompanied by her best dainty China cups and saucers with matching plates. A variety of small fairy cakes and scones would then be presented on an afternoon tea cake stand. They would then gently position their morsel of choice in the centre of a doily and desperately refrain from wolfing it down in one go.
One could be forgiven for thinking that we may have been in some very posh suburb of Dublin or in a grand country home but all this occurred in Crumlin and I witnessed similar scenes in the three bedroom semi-detached on the Glasnevin/Finglas border where I grew up.
So I had always associated Hunting scenes with gentry and privilege. Over the last week I visited two events to try capture a sense of these occasions and discovered that nothing could be further from the truth.
Farmers, long distance truck drivers, publicans and all sorts meet at a pub in Stamullen, Co Meath. At the back of the pub all one can hear is the hounds in full cry desperate to get some exercise. The trailer opens and they pour out. Horse boxes litter the village and are abandoned until their return. They tack up and head out en masse into a local field not knowing their path for the next 2-3 hours.
I find a local man who’s daughter is part of the hunt and he graciously agrees to take me along and attempt to follow them in his 4×4. He’s very familiar with the local countryside and anticipates their moves around the vast area with a good deal of success.
My first impression is one of frustration as I have no clue how to ride a horse and everyone seems to be having such great fun. For the first time in my life I regret not learning how to ride (despite being a lad from Finglas).
Btw, I didn’t see one dead fox. In fact, I’m told it’s more common for them to return foxless. The Hunt would appear to be much more fun than the kill. Jumping monster ditches and fences is the prize and the priority.
FIGHT!