More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Mick Crowley (Irish Times); Tanya O’Neill (Westmeath Examiner and The Connaught Telegraph); Pamela McCarthy (Irish Examiner); Geoff McGrath (Irish Daily Mail); Enda Bolger (Irish Sun), Niamh McEneaney (Irish Mirror); Colm McGann (Clare People) and Nick Sutton (UK papers)
This afternoon.
Outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin.
Succinct.
Thanks Moira Cardiff
Fiona Doyle and husband Jim.
Ashling Hotel, Dublin. this afternoon.
Fiona Doyle holds a press conference following a Court of Appeal decision to increase the custodial sentence on her 74-year-old father, Patrick O’Brien, for raping her when she was a child.
After the ruling, Ms Doyle said she was delighted, and that she was not a victim any more, but a survivor.
She described her father as “a monster” who today got what he “deserves” and is “back where he belongs”.
During the trial, Ms Doyle said she believed her mother knew about the abuse and said today that she had written to the Garda Commissioner seeking to have this investigated.
She said she had “taken back control of her life” and also said that her story is now being made into a film.
Fiona Doyle says she is no longer a victim, ‘but a survivor’ (RTÉ)
Previously: Turning Point?
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Last week RTÉ’s Investigation Unit, published a comprehensive database online, outlining TDs and Senators’ pay, allowances and expenses between March 2011, just after the general election, until the end of July 2014.
The interactive table above has been created using data to allow readers see the sum total of pay, taxable allowances and expenses paid to each TD for each year in that timeframe.
Just click on the year.
Figures do not include the extra salaries paid to the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Ministers or Junior Ministers as that money is paid out by their individual departments. Those extra salaries can range from €34,381 to €98,092 per year. The figures also don’t include some additional expenses paid to some TDs, such as constituency office grants, etc.
For a closer look at the overall figures and a breakdown of the pay, allowances and expenses, see here.
€100 million in pay and expenses for politicians (RTÉ)
Thanks Ken Foxe
An exploration by WarmBakedBread of how director Darren Anonofsky uses his characters’ eyes to convey emotions in his six movies to date: Pi (998); Requiem for a Dream (2000); The Fountain (2006); The Wrestler (2008); Black Swan (2010) and Noah (2014).
To sticky familiar shapes…
Kieran writes:
Spotted in Marrakech, the smear of jam that looks like Ireland.
The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Ireland (New Island, €5)
A selection of the 2,212 firearms and other weapons intercepted by the TSA at US airports last year.
Frank
“I love human interaction but I do play rough sometimes. Because of this I wouldn’t be suited to a home with small children or other pets. To put it simply: I need to be your one and only!”
A blunt appeal by ginger-splattered stray Frank at the Dublin SPCA last Summer.
Anyone?
Please?
[some time later]
This morning.
Dublin SPCA writes:
At last Frankie gets a home of his own [in Maynooth Co Kildare]. After waiting since last August, he has gone to a wonderful family. We will certainly miss this loveable rogue. Best of luck Frankie….
