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The Irish Times reports this morning that, between August 2013 and October 2014, Irish Water spent almost €5.2million on legal fees. This bill included:
€3.6million to A&L Goodbody
€81,000 to Arthur Cox and Company
€46,411.95 to Mason Hayes and Curran
€1.3million to McCann Fitzgerald
Ruadhán MacCormaic, in the Irish Times this morning, reports:
“The total spend on lawyers’ fees is equivalent to one-third of the annual budget of the Office of the Attorney General, which provides legal advice to all Government departments…The figures on legal spending come at a time of increasing optimism among Dublin’s biggest law firms about their business prospects.”
Right so.
Irish Water spends more than €81,000 a week in legal fees (Ruadhaán MacCormaic, Irish Times)
A touch of urbex in Mulgrave Street, Limerick.
Photographer Donal Moloney writes:
Limerick Lunatic Asylum was founded in 1827. It was originally built to accommodate 150 patients. “Lunatics”, “imbeciles” and “idiots” as they would have been described by the authorities of the day, the asylum had 337 patients. By 1848 its population exploded to over 1,000 and kept growing. Ireland was the first nation to legislate for the provision of facilities for the mentally ill, and as such the Asylum stands as one of the first large institutions for the insane in the western world. In 1959 the complex became better known as St Joseph’s Hospital. Much of it today is lying derelict.
Ian writes:
Bacon is NOT impressed with his festive hat!
Mark writes:
‘Kia’ helping to collect donations for Lily’s Dog Rescue in Cavan on Grafton Street [Dublin] on Saturday…
Padraig Shanahan writes:
This is Barry the long haired Persian – inside this cool exterior there are snow ball fights and tinsel waiting to get out…
Vanessa writes:
Here’s my sister’s dog Bailey sporting this season’s reindeer look…
Meanwhile….
Mark and Lucy Frances with their daughter Sarah and Lucky at the Geansai Nollaig challenge on O’Connell Street, Dublin last night.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Does your pet loathe love the festive season? Pets at Xmas marked My Pet At Xmas to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Steve Humphreys tweets:
Homeless man found dead less that 50metres from the seat of power at Dáil Éireann this morning.
Previously: 21-Year-Old Homeless Man Dies In Street Close To Dáil (September 8, 2010)
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Simon Hall writes:
I thought you might be interested in this video, vox pops on Grafton Street. Do they know about Christmas time at all?
Brian Heffernan writes:
[Portland, Oregon] First solo work from Cork-based John Blek well worth a listen. Also check out his contemporary country and Irish melancholy work with The Rats (my bro’s the drummer).
From the album Cutting Room Floor. Video by Barra Vernon.