Kirkbadaz writes:
“Spotted this in loo of the offices of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, on Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Dirty protest? Bad form.”
Anyone?
The full line up for the Lingo spoken word festival in Dublin on October 16, 17 and 18 at various locations in the city has been released [link below].
Headliners include Saul Williams, Mark Grist, Hollie McInosh, Elaine Feeney, John Cummins and Broadsheet ‘ricksmith/Lingo Laureate John ‘Moynes’ Moynes.
Word.
Crackbird, Dame Street, Dublin.
C writes:
Further to photos I sent showing anti-homeless people measures taken by Crackbird using pot plants, I present the latest CB innovation. Homeless people had managed to sleep at the front door but not now…
Previously: And So To Bed
Michael McNicholas, CEO of Ervia, the parent company of Irish Water
This morning Ellen Coyne and Niamh Lyons, in the Irish edition of The Times (not The Irish Times), report:
“Politicians and the media did not do enough to explain to the public the importance of Irish Water, the head of the utility’s parent company has claimed.”
“Michael McNicholas, chief executive of Ervia, attempted to divert responsibility for the various controversies and setbacks involving the utility at the Environment Ireland conference in Croke Park yesterday.”
“Asked what he would have done differently, he suggested there had been a communications failure. “In hindsight, I don’t think there was enough done right across all of Irish society, that includes politics and media, to really set out the facts of the situation,” he said.”
Politicians and media ‘share blame’ for Irish Water row (The Times, Irish edition)
Hmm.
Readers may recall how the Irish Mail on Sunday, on November 23, 2104, reported that Mr McNicholas, the former CEO of NTR, had shares worth €1million in NTR, which made €2million a year from Irish Water contracts.
It also reported that NTR owned 50% of Celtic Anglian Water Ltd (CAW) which had contracts with Irish Water for meter installation and waste water worth €4million a year.
In July 2012 – almost a year before Mr McNicholas was appointed CEO of Bord Gáis, now Ervia – the Sunday Independent reported Mr McNicholas saying: “The metering of Irish water opens up opportunities for Celtic Anglian Water. Celtic Anglian is well-positioned to provide those services.”
In an interview with Cathal MacCoille, on Morning Ireland, on Monday, November 24, 2014, – the day after the Mail story – Mr McNicholas said:
“I spoke with NTR and I said that I no longer can sit on their advisory committee, even though it’s to do with renewable energy and it has no conflict whatsoever with my role in Ervia. I feel that’s no longer appropriate for me to sit on that committee. I do hold shares in NTR and they are restricted but I am divesting of those shares as a restriction is lifted. I am looking to see if I can accelerate the lifting of those restrictions to divest myself of those shares and, just to finish, my final point, any proceeds that come from the sale of those shares, we are, myself and my wife, as we always have intended, are donating the proceeds of those to Focus Ireland which has always been our intention.”
Previously: Murky, Murky, Murky
Now see him in concert.
Musician, singer and celebrated door-to-door salesman Daniel Anderson will play at Abner Browns Barbershop in Rathmines, Dublin 6 tonight at 8.45pm.
Entry is FREE and it will be a BYOB event.
Previously: ‘Sounds Like The Stuff I Listen To On Spotify’
Tuesday night (top) and last night (above)
Festive.
Dramatically early Xmas illuminations on an unidentified estate in Sandyford, Co Dublin captured over the last two nights by genuinely horrified neighbour Ciamhie McDigital.
Thanks Paul
Ryan Tubridy at the launch of RTÉ’s Autumn/Winter season last month
A broadcaster called Tubridy,
Is selling a house near the sea,
He’s flogging the place,
‘Cause there’s no parking space,
Which sounds rather awkward to me.
John Moynes
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews)
By Dan Boyle
(with apologies to Myles na gCopaleen)
What contradictory emotional state is expressed by a political representative when asked that question?
(S)He is glad that question was asked.
What unnecessary adverb is added to express disappointment at being asked that question?
(S)He is really glad that question was asked.
What added phrase is necessary when after three minutes no answer to that question has been given?
I am getting to that question.
What phrase, found in the future conditional tense, creates the promise that all will be right eventually?
The phrase is going forward.
What timescale is given to decisions made today eventually bearing fruit?
After the election after next.
What unit of intensity must people possess to be the beneficiaries of government policies?
They must be hard working.
What length and duration must an economic plan be?
It must be long term.
What sports analogy should no issue ever be?
A political football.
At what radial intersection is the country to be found at every coming election?
At a crossroads.
What serious consequence to important pacific endeavour follows criticism of any type, of the words or actions of the Sinn Féin party?
It damages the Peace Process.
What exaggerated expression of seriousness must be applied to every disagreement that occurs in Northern Ireland?
Such disagreements must always be described as a crisis.
What legal requirement is not said to exist, if individual approval has not been given in exercising access to the utility of water?
No consent no contract.
What sense of direction should apply to the payment of water charges?
No way
From where should this direction be applied?
From many places – days out in Dublin; football matches in Portugal; or swimming pools in Florida.
To what state of physical well being are many public bodies thought to be in their utilisation?
They are not thought to be fit for purpose.
In whose interest are all political decisions made?
The national interest.
Whose debt is not it?
It is not our debt.
Who is responsible for everything in the country that is working well?
The Government is.
Who is responsible for everything in the country that isn’t working well?
Somebody else is. Anybody else is.
What type of failure does government admit to?
A communications failure.
To what political party does communication failure most impact upon?
The Labour Party.
What alternative state negates a forced resignation of any high level public official, not being seen as a dismissal?
When such public officials retire.
If the Fianna Fáil party is unable to be in government with the Fine Gael party or with the Sinn Féin party, who can it be in government with?
No one. It is a perfect state of disgrace.
To what extent does the six syllable word sustainability feature in Irish political debate?
To no extent at all.
What time projection for this nation are our young people?
Young people are our future.
What type of coagulant are our young people also considered to be?
Our life blood.
Why are undocumented Irish people in the United States considered different to economic migrants who come to Ireland?
They just are.
Who is the Minister for the Environment?
There is no Minister FOR The Environment.
What is the relationship between Tribunals of Inquiry and subsequent convictions within the Irish judicial system?
There is no known relationship.
There is only one DOB.
Thou shalt take the name of the Lord thy DOB in vain.
If a war is over why does armed conflict continue? If an army has been stood down, why does a withered husk of an organisation still remain? If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it ever fall?
Don’t ask me. I’m not God.
Dan Boyle is a former Green Party TD. Follow Dan on Twitter: @sendboyle
