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Taoiseach Enda Kenny is met by more than 200 protesters in Blackpool, Cork this morning where he announced 120 new jobs at Xanadu.

And they thought it was all over.

Previously: You Had One Job

Enda Kenny jeered by water charge protesters in Cork (Irish Times)

Videos by Joe Leogue and David O’Sullivan

UPDATE:

Inside the Xanadu office, Gavin O’Reilly, of Today FM, reports Mr Kenny saying:

“We’re very happy that Ireland will measure up here because the scheme is being designed specifically for this purpose. And, as I say, Europe’s only involvement now is purely for statistical reasons… Government did listen, after Government admitted that it certainly didn’t get everything right here. And it’s dealt with the question of the PPS, and it’s dealt with the question of the bonus regimes, and it’s dealt with the question of what happens after 2019.”

Taoiseach jeered by large crowds at Cork demo (Gavin Reilly, Today FM)

UPDATE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71N_0f1_dw

A new video of the protest showing the crowds turn their backs to Mr Kenny and singing, ‘In Cork, he’d be known as a langer’.

Hehehe

Yikes.

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Maíria Cahill and Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams

Melanie O’Connor writes:

Maíria Cahill has been making the headlines for the past five weeks. This week on The Saturday Night Show, Brendan O’Connor meets the woman behind the headlines who says she’s been living in fear since she went public with her story.

Meanwhile…

Previously: Falls Memory Syndrome

Fein Concern

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Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell

Exhausted the poor thing.

Yet ‘on message’.

“I am, I am [going to pay]. I think we have to pay for water… I have to tell you, I am exhausted listening to the word ‘austerity’. I am really exhausted…I think it is in one way, our society is a benevolent society, we are a good society, it’s a good place to live if you live with the system, it is. It would treat you well, it will feed you well, it will educate you well and it does, it does. It tries to look after its poor and it tries to educate all its citizens.”

Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell on Tonight With Vincent Browne last night.

Previously: Pure Rage

Watch back in full here

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He’s seen it all.

Niamh O’Brien, of Fís Nua, engages in gentle but firm constitutional banter with a measured Sergeant Joe Fallon of the Clare Garda Division “and a representative of Irish Water who chose not to identify himself”.

Old school.

Irish Water standoff in Scarriff (Mark Dunphy, Clare Herald)

Previously: Decent Garda Watch

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Limerick Leader reports:

Controversy continues over the Government’s JobBridge scheme, as a Subway outlet in Limerick city has advertised two positions seeking “sandwich artists”.

The O’Connell Street outlet is seeking two people to master the ‘art’ of sandwich making for 30 hours a week. Those hired will received an extra €50 per week under the scheme, on top of their existing social welfare payment.

The position is for nine months, and the advert highlights that a mentor will be assigned to the successful applicant.

Subway in Limerick seeking ‘sandwich artists’ under JobBridge (Limerick Leader)

H/T: Squid Limerick

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