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Dublin City Council write:
This video, created by members of Dublin City’s Comhairle na nÓg (Youth Council) highlights the importance of promoting and protecting Dublin Bay and the surrounding area.
This [area] extends to over 300 km2. Over 330,000 people live within the Biosphere area. Dublin Bay Biosphere is the only UNESCO Biosphere in a capital city in Europe.
Tonight on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
Peacekeepers: The Irish in South Lebanon.
Gareth Naughton writes:
Irish peacekeepers have been serving in the Middle East continuously since 1958. In that time, 47 Irish soldiers have paid the ultimate price in the cause of peace while on active service in south Lebanon, an area often beset by conflict and war.
In tonight’s documentary, viewers will hear from Sergeant Michael Merrigan who was serving alongside Private Billy Kedian (22) when he was killed in May 1999 as the Irish outpost where they were stationed came under attack from mortars fired by the South Lebanon Army militia group.
Pte Kedian, from Ballyhaunis in Co Mayo, was killed when a mortar struck directly in camp as the soldiers were making their way to the safety of a bunker, an emergency response known as ‘groundhog’.
Denis O’Brien
Another day.
Another law suit.
Businessman Denis O’Brien has lost an appeal against a 2011 High Court decision dismissing his claim the Moriarty Tribunal had incorrectly restricted cross-examination of a key witness at its public hearings.
A five-judge Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal in which he claimed there was a breach of fair procedures by sole tribunal member, Mr Justice Michael Moriarty, to limit both the amount of time and the extent of the questions his lawyers could ask Danish telecommunications expert, Professor Michael Andersen.
… Mr O’Brien had argued a declaration that fair procedures were not applied during part of the tribunal, which centred on payments to politicians Michael Lowry and Charles Haughey, would have an effect on the public view of the tribunal’s report.
If he got such a declaration from the Supreme Court, he could also consider moving to quash certain parts of the report and this could also have consequences for the issue of the tribunal’s costs, he claimed.
The tribunal had opposed the appeal arguing the matter is now moot as its report has been published and there has been no challenge by Mr O’Brien to its contents.
Denis O’Brien loses appeal against decision on Moriarty witness (Irish Times)
Previously: Connecting The DOBs
#Moriarty: A Phone Book. In More Ways Than One
Rollingnews
UPDATE:
High Court hearing discovery applications in Denis O’Brien’s case against Red Flag Consulting. It denies claims of conspiracy and defamation
— Mary Carolan (@MaryCarolanIT) July 12, 2016
How Much?
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Economy expanded by 26% last year, says CSO. Largely driven by aircraft purchases and assets re-locating to Ireland. Employment steady.
— David Murphy (@davidmurphyRTE) July 12, 2016
Ireland debt-to-GDP ratio will fall to less than 80% as a result of new economic figures, says CSO.
— David Murphy (@davidmurphyRTE) July 12, 2016
Yikes.
View CSO figures in full here
Apparently it’s GE Capital Aviation Services that became Irish last year, producing such a big spike in Irish GDP, GNP and IP.
— Ronan Lyons (@ronanlyons) July 12, 2016
Boeing.
UPDATE:
During RTÉ’s News at One, RTÉ’s Business Editor David Murphy spoke to Audrey Carville about the figures.
From the interview…
Audrey Carville: “David, has it really grown by so much?”
David Murphy: “No. I think the issue here is Audrey, that what’s happened is that when the CSO does its figures it has to take account of what companies are doing. And, normally, if a company invests in an asset like a factory then that will result in more employment and boost the economy. So those assets are very important. But what’s happened is that a number of large, international companies have bought aircraft, they’ve done corporate restructuring and some companies have located assets to Ireland for the first time. And as a result, it’s had a one-off effect on the balance sheet of the entire country and it’s distorted the figures for the entire economy quite significantly. Showing that the economy, on the face of it, would have appeared to have expanded by 26% last year. Now, were that to have happened, in reality, people would be feeling 26% richer but they’re not.”
Listen back in full here
Hazel Coonagh writes:
This is a short music video I made in my living room for Irish band CFIT and their song, Salvo. I wanted to play around with using paint and ink to represent sound, purely through colour and movement. I thought it might be Broadsheet’s cup of tea, hope you enjoy!
*slurp*
Last night.
Hopewell Square, Lower Shankill Estate, Belfast.
Orange-hued revellers celebrate The Eleventh Night, which refers to the night before the battle where Protestant King William III of Orange defeated Catholic King James II in Boyne on July 12, 1690.
FIGHT!
Last night: Tis The Season
Update:
This morning.
The smouldering bonfire, which led to two houses (left) being burned down in the early hours.
That’ll learn them.
Probably not.
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
Table of new house completions released by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government [click to enlarge]
Namawinelake tweetz:
In the month of May 2016, 1,294 residences were completed nationwide, of which 431 were in Dublin…Official estimates are, we need 25,000 residences nationally/yr of which 10,000 are in Dublin. That’s 2,083/mth nationally & 833 in Dublin….The housing crisis became crisisier in May 2016 to tune of 789 units nationally and 402 in Dublin.
Construction activity completions (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government)
Previously: Nama Wine Lake Writes
Nxstalgic_ – releases Motorola beat tape on Soft Boy Records
What you may need to know…
01. Decent (instrumental) Irish hip-hop from Leeside beatmaker Nxstalgic_.
02. Independently released an album and two EPs between August of last year and February, all available here.
03. Streaming above in its entirety is new beat tape Motorola, available for pay-what-you-want download.
04. Released via upstart Irish hip-hop collective Soft Boy Records, among them former Broadsheet featuree Kojaque, Matt Finnegan and Kean Kavanagh.
Verdict: Impossibly smooth, yet suitably gritty. Don’t sleep on it.
It doesn’t get gnarlier.
Photographer Donal Moloney writes:
On Sunday afternoon I stumbled upon hundreds of men and women swimming from Dun Laoghaire to Blackrock. I didn’t see them as swimmers when they frantically exited the water. It felt like I was witnessing a biblical scene.
‘The Eddie Heron Swim’ is a 2.2k Leinster open water sea swim from Dun Laoghaire to Blackrock [Co Dublin] . Winner of the men’s event was Andrew Glover and lady winner was Anne Marie Kenrick…..