“Mattress Mick sees himself at the forefront of the recovery of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger–mauled economy. “Mattress Mick is here to help the Irish people get a good night’s sleep,” he tells me, speaking of Mattress Mick as a character, not in first person (his real name is Michael Flynn). “Irish-made mattresses are the best-made in the world, and I wanted to get across the message that if you sleep well at night you can come back fighting every morning. We can get Ireland back on its feet.” His own best advertisement, Mick has turned himself into a living, walking meme on a shoestring marketing budget.”
The Mattress King of Dublin (Vice)
Previously: The Man Behind The Man Behind Mattress Mick
Pic: Vice
Today’s Irish Times
Martin Wall, in the Irish Times, reports:
“A serving civil servant has given an extensive dossier to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee making allegations of substantial tax evasion over an extended period of time involving, among others, senior politicians.
The senior civil servant has also maintained that various ministers over recent years and a number of State agencies failed to fully investigate the allegations.”…
“The letter makes allegations regarding one former minister. Allegations are also made in the dossier about a former judge.”
“It is also claimed the evidence in the documentation could “be relevant to the defence of the State and of Mr Michael Lowry and Mr Denis O’Brien in the case being taken by the failed bidders in the 1995 mobile phone licence competition”.”
Hmmmm.
For the week that’s in it.
Annie West’s Venn diagram whatsit on Bono.
Yikes.
Earlier: Double Irish
Previously: Until Next Year
Thanks Annie
This morning.
The Kenmeister asks:
New on street parking facility in Dublin’s O’Connell Street?
Anyone?
Double Irish
at
A Web Summiteer in Ballsbridge, Dublin yesterday.
Colm asks:
“Dutch would you think?”
Spotted yesterday on Dublin’s Marlborough St.
(Thanks Darragh O’Connor)
