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Front page of Tuesday’s Limerick Leader

Nick Rabbitts, in Limerick Leader, writes:

Fine Gael in Limerick has been dealt a blow after the members of a southside branch disbanded the group and quit the party en-masse.

At a meeting this week, the 28 members of the Ballinacurra branch closed the unit after almost 10 years, with its founder Jim Long, declaring that the “consensus was members were not inclined to support Fine Gael anymore”.

Mr Long, a former mayor of Limerick, chaired the meeting.

“It was generally agreed by the members present that the Fine Gael party had lost its direction, and were out of touch with the people,” he said afterward.

Fine Gael members in Limerick quit in protest at ‘amateur’ party (Limerick Leader)

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny on RTÉ’s Nine News tonight:

“And I think it should also be said Eileen, if I may say so that the average worker, a single worker on the minimum wage of 35,000 is going to get back €400 in the income tax returns starting in January.”

A Freudian slip from An Taoiseach.

Minimum wage is €8.65 per hour, 39 hours per week, 52 weeks per year = €17,542.

He should do more of these.

New charging structure of Irish Water to cost Exchequer €84m (RTÉ News)

cinderella-2015

What you may need to know:

1. It’s a live action fantasy inspired by the Cinderella fairy tale. See what they got out of there? You know the story but there are a few twists as you can see.

2. The trailer shows Cinders meeting The Prince before the grand ball and The Fairy Godmother has a much larger role disguised as an old beggar.

3. Lots of Hollywood’s great and good came together to make it happen including Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter who is a long way from her astounding turn as Marla Singer.

4. Lily James has not lost that vacuous look she constantly wears for Downtown Abbey.

5. The film was originally to be directed by Mark Romanek but he left due to “creative differences“. He was developing a version that was darker than Disney wanted and was promptly replaced by Kenneth Branagh. A more menacing tale would have been interesting.

6. The Cinderella story has been around for a long time. See Egypt’s Rhodopis.

7. The version that we associate most with is Charles Perrault’s from his imaginatively named Tales And Stories From The Past With Morals in 1697.

8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Our balls are always crowded and sweaty affairs.

Release Date:  March 27, 2015

(Delboy is looking for his slippers. Dylan is Tom Dillon, Broadsheet writer who becomes a pumpkin farmer every October)

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