*swerve*
Mark Geary writes:
Ireland Street. and Cromwell Street junction, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia. Is someone having a laugh, or were the streets given these names by coincidence?
Anyone?
Last week an anonymous Hun,
Flew south with a rather large gun,
To go out and cull,
An elephant bull,
Which all sounds like jolly good fun.
John Moynes
Terry Prone at the Image magazine Network Breakfast at the Marker Hotel, Dublin discussing workplace harmony this morning.
#imagenb #terryprone “never go to bed without making 2 people feels really great at work” #womenup
— Pauline Daspre (@P_au_li_ne_) October 16, 2015
Be a serial killer not a spree killer (same body count, longer time period) – Terry Prone #imagenb — paulamhurley (@paulamhurley) October 16, 2015
There’s no fairies and no justice, there is only now – get on with it – Terry Prone #imagenb
— paulamhurley (@paulamhurley) October 16, 2015
Terry Prone says she wants to adopt young talent @StefPreissner @jo_linehan I know!!!
— Suzie Coen (@suzie_coen) October 16, 2015
Alternatively…
If anyone wants to know who the nutter in Grand Canal Plaza singing Redemption Songs at 9 in the morning was, it was me. — susan_lanigan (@susan_lanigan) October 16, 2015
Previously: Terry Prone On Workplace Harmony
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin and Finance Minister Michael Noonan in studio with Seán O’Rourke on Wednesday
Further to the RTÉ phone-in brouhaha…
Erica Fleming, the homeless mother who has been living in a Dublin hotel since June with her nine-year-old daughter – and whose questions appeared to cause a headache for the advisors of ministers Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin – has spoken to Ellen Coyne of the Ireland edition of the Times:
“I just think it’s really funny that the people we elected into government can’t think for themselves. As government ministers, they should be able to give a real honest answer and not have to have it written down in front of them. I don’t think the question I was asking was very hard.
“It shouldn’t have caused so much fuss. I did not expect that they would have been preparing responses to my question. On that basis, it’s not really a response is it, it’s just a speech.”
Meanwhile, The Times continues to reject RTÉ’s claims that yesterday’s report was inaccurate, and…
A former adviser to a previous finance minister who had appeared on RTE for a similar post-budget show said they were not provided with any questions in advance in the past.
“We would get broad guidance about the topics that were going to come up. You might get a list that said pensions, childcare, income tax, that kind of thing. We never got the questions or any specific details about the person, I’m not even sure we got the caller’s name in advance,” the former adviser said.
Ministers criticised over phone-in demands (Ellen Coyne and Niamh Lyons, The Times Ireland edition)
Previously: A Phoney Phone-In
Meanwhile…
Max Keiser
.@roakleyIRL When I was asked on RTE a few yrs ago they wanted to know my answers before letting me on air. I said ‘No’ so they canceled.
— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) October 15, 2015
There you go.
Previously: Ireland’s Biggest Problem Is RTÉ, Says Max Keiser
Sinn Féin TD Mary Lou McDonald and a friend in front of an unfinished mural on the gable wall of Canon Burke Flats at Fassaugh Avenue/Ratoath Road junction in Cabra, recently. The words of the 1916 Proclamation were to be placed in the centre
Dublin City Council workers painting over the mural late Wednesday evening/early Thursday morning
The painted-over mural yesterday evening
The Cabra 1916 Commemoration Committee writes:
Dublin City Council housing department removed the Cabra 1916 Proclamation Mural in the early hours of [Thursday] morning. We, the 1916 Commemoration Committee, are saddened by this act. The mural is only one part of a number of planned events which we have submitted to the council over four months ago…We are asking our community and local reps to support our program of events and our further options and actions in relation to the mural.
Cathy Power writes:
There is ugly stuff on walls all over Dublin, some of it obscene, some of it racist, some of it just stupid, but Dublin City Council mobilises a crew, in the dead of night, to paint over a community mural in Cabra of the Proclamation of 1916. Who ordered this and why?
Alternatively…
The mural in Cabra SF is illegally erecting a blatant attempt to politicise 1916 that they had no part in. Didn’t bother to ask locals.
— Adam Hurley (@ATMH1994) September 27, 2015
Anyone?
Cabra 1916 Commemoration Committee (Facebook)
Thanks Buzz
UPDATE:
Neil King writes:
Cabra doesn’t get the playing field to itself when it comes to weird-bottom murals. Here’s one from Roe River Books in Dundalk.
Hay There
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Spotted yesterday afternoon in Milltown, Co. Kildare.
Emma-Jane Dempsey writes:
“What’s that coming over the hedge?”
Previously: Cos-Hay
Comfort Zone
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A precision-made combined thermometer/hygrometer weather station from Best Made Co (€151 + shipping). To wit:
When the needles cross in the hatched region on the gauge, heat and humidity are perfectly balanced.
