Alana Byrne tweetz:
Lights, camera action… #HongKong
Vigilance
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North Great Charles street off Mountjoy Square, Dublin this afternoon.
Thanks Fiona
MORE to folly.
Thanks Enda Cunningham (The Galway City Tribune); Neil Henderson (UK covers); Enda Bolger (The Irish Sun); Brian Oliver (The Irish Times)
Covers to broadsheet@broadsdheet.ie
Go Elite
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Uplift is a “community of people taking coordinated action for progressive change in Ireland”
Sarah Flood at Uplift writes:
This week the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is being negotiated in Brussels between EU and USA – and our corporate cheerleaders will be there! Wait… sorry, our politicians. Who have already stated their specific support for secret arbitration courts that will allow multinational companies to sue our state (meaning us) for loss of possible profits. Way to go…
Stop Corporate Takeover – No To Secret Arbitration Courts (Uplift)
Yesterday: Trojan Defiance
The hidden Milverton Quarry in Skerries, Co Dublin
That magical old quarry?
David Diebold writes:
Some time ago, you featured a spectacular photo of a hidden quarry at Skerries, Co Dublin, with great cliff faces descending to a turquoise lake. Your readers could hardly believe such a beautiful place existed so near Dublin.
Well, Roadstone is filling it in. Looks like the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] will grant a license despite the established presence of nesting Peregrine Falcons, otters and kingfishers. Submissions against the plan [deadline February 11] will cost individuals €200 a pop. I’m no tree hugger, but, c’mon…
Previously: You Won’t Get This
(Google maps)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyf-gWwKdI&feature=youtu.be
Staying in anocht?
Vlogger Laura Gaynor (top second left) writes:
A few months ago you shared a video I made about job interviews. And today [at 6.25pm}, I’m going to be on TG4 on a panel for their new show GLEO talking about the video and other jobby, worky type stuff! While I was down there I made a few videos and also have some free stuff to give away….Would love if you’d check out the video (above).
Previously: Interview Tips
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Yanis Varoufakis today
Greece’s new finance minister has urged Germany to help end the “gross indignity” of the Greek debt crisis. Yanis Varoufakis said “too much time, hopes, lives” had been wasted by Greece’s forced austerity programme….
Some club, in fairness.
End ‘gross indignity’, Greek FM Varoufakis tells Germany (BBC)
Meanwhile…
FTSE Eurofirst falls 0.4 after impass in Greek debt deal
Shares in Greece’s biggest banks fall 8pc
Denmark slashes rates to -0.75pc on currency fears
Varoufakis calls more for time and emergency bridging loans
Markets rocked by surprise ECB move to cut Greek bank funding (Telegraph)
Earlier: Making A Drachma Out of A Crisis
(AFP)
Loosely tied purple housecoats?
Silky brocade intimate nethers?
Flimsy suspendered things of the night?
Oh go on then.
The new Valentine’s Day lingerie collection from The Lingerie Rooms at Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin modelled by Danielle (brunette) and Teo, who are clad in not inexpensive items from Stella McCartney and Heidi Klum.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
