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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin with Tanaiste and Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton at the launch of Labour’s new Budget 2016 online tax calculator.

Does it beat the simplicity and easy to use-ness of the acclaimed, already a week-old, Broadsheet calculator [link below]? Only you can decide.

Previously: Your Bidget 2016 Calculator Is here

(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie)

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Do you like folk music?

Sarah Peters writes:

Join us this November 5th upstairs in The Loft venue in The Grand Social [Lower Liffey Street, Dublin] for Get Folked is back again! …and this time we will be listening to songs from the beautiful Anna-Mieke Bishop, Galway’s David Boland’s folk outfit – New Pope and also the best Waterford boyos, Away With The Fairies

SHROOMS SHROOMS SHROOMS SHROOMS

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British Secretary of State for Northern ireland Therese Villiers in the House of Commons this afternoon.

A Government-ordered review has found that all the main republican and loyalist terror groups in Northern Ireland remain in existence, but are now committed to peace.
The independent review, called by Theresa Villiers, also found that all the main groups had committed murders since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement but their leaders were now committed to peaceful means, she told parliament.
It also found that the structures of the Provisional IRA remain, including an Army council, but in a “much reduced form”, Ms Villiers said.
She said the report found that “individual members of paramilitary groups with a legacy of violent activity still represent a threat to national security”.

MI5.

Nothing gets past them.

IRA still exists but in ‘much reduced form’, says official report (Guardian)

IRA ruling body still exists, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers tells MPs (Telegraph)

Update:

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Please don’t make it a thing.

This afternoon.

Anne Louise Foley write:

Daithi O Se and Maura Derrane are doing a Breast Cancer Survivor party on the Today Show today in association with the Marie Keating Foundation.Daithi has dyed his beard pink for the cause. But he’s willing to go even pinker if people donate generously to the Marie Keating Foundation.

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The doctor’s diagnosis
For my constant malady
Was arthritis on my ear
And water on the knee.

The first one we can treat for you
With cream and some saltpeter.
The other will be charged per week
By the installation of a meter.

By Jan, of Irish rhyming website, Incorrect Emphasis [link below]

Fight!

Incorrect Emphasis

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This afternoon.

The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Bray [Co Wicklow] where the funerals of five of the people who died in the halting site fire in Carrickmines are taking place.

The coffins of Tara Gilbert, Willie Lynch, their children Jodie and Kelsey, and Willie’s brother Jimmy arrived at the church earlier.

(Sam Boal/RollingNews)

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Should politicians be able to invoke copyright in order to conceal their past promises? Asks copyright lawyer and digital rights expert TJ McIntyre (above), who adds on his blog:

Irish politicians are getting nervous. Although the government still insists it will serve out its full term, insiders are muttering about the possibility of a post-budget snap election.

It’s no coincidence, therefore, that they are now looking to clean up their online presence and two stories from this week are particularly telling.

First Alan Kinsella, of the invaluable Irish Election Literature website, tweeted (above):

Second, an anonymous user from an Oireachtas IP address attempted a systematic (but ultimately unsuccessful) whitewashing of the Wikipedia entry for Senator Jim Walsh, deleting all reference to various gaffes by him through the years.

There’s nothing new about attempts to suppress unfavourable information about Irish politicians – and the current stories are nowhere near the seriousness of the recent incident in which the aide to Derek Keating TD dumped several thousand copies of a local freesheet containing a critical story about his boss.

But these examples still raise interesting issues for lawyers. In the case of the Irish Election Literature website – should politicians be able to invoke what would presumably be a copyright argument in order to conceal their past promises?

In the case of Wikipedia, should edits made by TDs, Senators or their staff about themselves be disclosed? Wikipedia certainly thinks so.

More generally, how should Irish law deal with sites such as Politwoops which archive deleted tweets from politicians? Is Twitter correct in saying that politicians should be able to delete their ill thought out tweets without that fact being highlighted – or should we accept that what politicians say is inherently newsworthy?

The Irish courts have yet to confront most of these issues – but it will be interesting to see what happens in an ongoing case brought by a Dublin election candidate who has invoked the “right to be forgotten” against online discussion of his election literature. Hopefully this will result in a judicial statement affirming the strong public interest in political discussion.’

EDIT FIGHT!

Whitewashing Your Internet Profile (TJ McIntyre)

Thanks Nelly Bergman

Meanwhile….

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Austrian law student Max Schrems outside the Four Courts.

Leah writes:

The High Court has quashed a decision by the Data Protection Commissioner to refuse to investigate a data privacy complaint by Max Schrems against Facebook. Max is an Austrian privacy activist who campaigns against Facebook for privacy violation, including its violations of European privacy laws and alleged transfer of personal data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the NSA’s PRISM programme…

(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie)

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This afternoon.

Anne writes:

Somehow “la Cabra” sounds less glam here than it might in other jurisdictions….

Joe update:

Broadsheet.ie