A portrait of Jackie Chan composed of differently sized hanging bundles of chopsticks (64,000 sticks in all) created by Malaysian artist and architect ‘Red’ Hong Yi.
Is the smell of fresh cut grass filling up your senses?
It’s your weekly chance to share your musical tastes AND win a voucher worth €25 [twenty five big ones!] to spend at Golden Discs stores nationwide.
Your chosen tune will also be played LIVE tomorrow, Friday, at midday.
To enter, just complete this sentence.
‘The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish Summer is________________________________’
Lines MUST close at 5.55pm
This afternoon
Over the M50.
Stephen Hennelly writes:
Nothing says I love you like a rusted padlock affixed to the pedestrian flyover beside the Liffey Valley shopping centre [Dublin 22]….
No affixed railing is SAFE.
Ráichéal tweetz:
Are we actually paying to conduct surveys on how to improve JobBridge? Abolish the god damn thing!
Previously: ‘HSE decided at a national level to use JobBridge’
Face/Off
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CHASE #protest #walkout at Oral Hearing this morning as Indaver introduce new 4,000 word report
— CHASE (@CHASECorkNews) May 5, 2016
Earlier today.
At Carrigaline Court Hotel – where final submissions are taking place on day 11 of the oral hearing into the €160million proposed incinerator for Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork.
Anyone?
Concerns raised over ash disposal at planned Cork incinerator (Irish Times, Barry Roche)
From top: Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy and acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dáil yesterday
You may recall the publication of the Second Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) at 9pm last Friday evening before the May Bank Holiday weekend began.
This was two weeks after Justice Brian Cregan completed the 29-page report which has been beset by issues of confidentiality.
The report noted that the Commission has so far cost €3,663,998 – including €631,000 for its own salaries, legal costs, rent, building overheads, services and administration costs; €2,786,998 for the special liquidator of IBRC (KPMG); and €246,000 for the Department of Finance for its ‘external legal costs’.
Further to this…
Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy raised the matter in the Dáil
Catherine Murphy:“… I raised an issue last week at the Whips’ meeting about the Cregan inquiry which reported to the Taoiseach on 15 April. It was published last Friday night and I understand there is an extension of time again. The Taoiseach needs to give some clarity on where this inquiry is going because it requires legislation on both privilege and confidentiality if it is to proceed. The judge could not have been clearer on what is required.
“The Taoiseach needs to outline what direction this inquiry is taking. Will it be something that is just constantly stretched out? Every week it continues it involves costs to do its work. It is absolutely essential that clarity is given on whether legislation will be produced in those two areas and if there a prospect of a conclusion to it.”
“A debate on the report is also needed in the House. It is the second interim report, which pretty much reinforces the point which was made last November, that legislation is needed if the inquiry is to proceed to a conclusion for public consumption.”
Enda Kenny: “… In regard to Deputy Catherine Murphy’s question on the Cregan interim report, the report was cleared at Cabinet last week. Believe me, there was nothing sinister in the fact that it was published on the Friday of what happened to be a bank holiday weekend.”
“I know that is always the story – that one is trying to ensure it is not seen. Let me put it this way. I can tell Deputy Murphy that I have looked at this and have given it a two-month extension. Mr. Justice Cregan has pointed out a number of challenges. Some of them are legal and some of them are constitutional, but there are a number of options to be considered.”
“I would be happy to accommodate Deputy Murphy with a meeting either today or tomorrow to let her have the up-to-date, accurate range of those opinions, which include the possibility of a full-blown public inquiry.”
“When we consider that the Moriarty tribunal ran for 13 years at a very costly sum to the taxpayer, these are options that need to be considered. I will facilitate Deputy Murphy and anyone else and bring them up to date on where it now stands arising from Mr. Justice Cregan’s interim report.”
Transcript via Oireachtas.ie
The second interim report can be read here
Simon Hogan writes:
Saw this in the ancient ‘Joy of Knowledge: Volume 36 ‘[1987] at the weekend. For every one of us here drinking there’s ten more at home who aren’t! Thanks to Willy M for letting me look through his old books….
A crane in central Dublin in April
Further to yesterday’s crane story in Cork’s Evening Echo…
Justine Comiskey, in yesterday’s Irish Times, reported:
There were 43 cranes visible over the centre of Dublin from the seventh floor of The Irish Times building on Tara Street on May 1st. This is a rise of three – or 7.5 per cent – on the previous month’s total of 40.
There was a slight increase in the number of cranes both north and south of the Liffey: the northside total rose by one to six while the southside figure was up two to 37.
…The Irish Times will be conducting its crane survey once a month to track construction levels in the city.
Number of cranes in use over Dublin city centre rises to 43 (Irish Times)
Previously: Crane Trails
Pic: Mrs Moneypenny
Thanks B Mul