This morning.
Kildare Street, Dublin.
Anyone?
Thanks Alan Kinsella
Bloomsday is upon us, let’s go,
To a brothel and watch the floor show,
Will I make the choice,
To dress up like Joyce?
No, I said, No, I said No.
John Moynes
Pic:Roly Allen
Last Saturday at Ocala Natural Forest in Florida, as reported by WPTV Palm Beach:
Richard Jones told WFTV in Orlando that he and his family were walking along the Oklawaha River watching alligators when his son walked through palm fronds to get a good picture. Jones told WFTV that his son must have startled the raccoon, which he said then stumbled toward the water and hopped on top of the gator that was near the water’s edge.
Commons Street, IFSC, Dublin 1.
(Thanks Karolina)
MORE to folly
Thanks Tanya O’Neill (The Westmeath Examiner and The Connaught Telegraph); Enda Bolger (The Irish Sun); Pamela McCarthy (The irish Examiner); Nick Sutton (UK covers)
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Are you with AIB?
A mathematician writes:
The principal danger with AIB’s online banking portal stems from the fact that there exist a great many accounts for which the first 6 digits of the ‘secret’ 8-digit registration number are simply the account holder’s birthday in DDMMYY format.
Oh.
Allied Irish Banks’s web and mobile banking portals are ‘protected’ by a level of security that is twice as easy to crack as would be provided by a single password containing only two lowercase letters.
Eek.
A person of malicious intent could easily gain access to hundreds, possibly thousands, of accounts as well as completely overwhelm the branch network by locking an estimated several 100,000s of people out of their online banking
Both AIB and the Irish Financial Services Ombudsman have refused to respond meaningfully to multiple communications each in which these concerns were raised privately [see link below]….
Mathematician and software engineer Oliver Nash
Anyone?
Read on: Security Theatre At AIB (Oliver Nash)
(Photocall Ireland)
#Anyone?
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD at the Shelbourne Hotel launching 185 new jobs for Dublin and Wexford this afternoon from five North American companies and one “European-based high growth company”.
Another rubbish hashtag.
Why?
Oh God WHY?
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Related: Clueless Politicians At A Loss Over Dialogue Online (Una Mulally)
Today’s Irish Independent front page
New figures from the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) show 455,000 lived in private rented housing in December 2013. This has risen to 695,646 today, meaning the number has increased by 240,000 or 52pc in just 18 months.
Housing Crisis Forces 10,000 A Month To Rent (irish Independent)
However….
C writes:
I got onto PRTB and they said the figures quoted in 2013 reflects the number of “tenants” listed on a registration application form. However, this “tenants figure” generally represents only the named parties in a tenancy agreement with contractual responsibility for that tenancy and does not reflect the actual number of people living in the private rental sector, e.g. it generally would not include minors under the age of 18.
During 2014, the PRTB introduced a new statistic based on the number of “occupants” listed on the registration application form (see above). The PRTB believe the “Occupants” figure gives a truer picture of the numbers residing in the private rental sector. Do you see what the newspaper did so?
Oh.