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Former Irish Independent journalist Eimear Ni Bhraonain, top, and the front page of the Irish Daily Mail on September 26, 2012

You may recall an Irish Daily Mail front page story about how Environment Minister Phil Hogan had written to some of his constituents in Kilkenny, telling them a Traveller family – Patrick and Brigid Carthy and their seven children – would not be moved to a house near them.

Phoenix magazine is this week reporting that former Irish Independent journalist Eimear Ni Bhraonain had the story for 10 days before the rival paper.

But her editors held off from printing it and only did so when the Irish Daily Mail was on the verge of publishing it.

The magazine adds:

“The Indo then received a dossier – from somewhere in the Kilkenny area – on the alleged crimes of Carthy (of a minor nature) and Ni Bhraonain was asked to pursue this angle with  vigour. She declined, having already determined from Gardai and social workers that the Carthys were not a problem family and because the newspaper, she believed, were trying to turn the real story on its head.“

Ms Ni Bhraonain is now taking a case of constructive dismissal at the Employment Appeals Tribunal against INM.

Previously: Big Phil’s Fat Gypsy Prejudice

Had Your Phil Yet?

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Dublin’s Google Docks, formerly known as the Montevetro building, in the heart of the Dublin’s ‘Silicon Docks’ in the Grand Canal Dock

Solocheck.ie writes:

Our latest figures show that 185,881 Irish companies are trading as normal as company start-ups exceed closures by 21% in 2014.

This year has seen the number of companies trading as normal in Ireland rise from just over 183,000 (at the end of 2013) to 185,881.

One factor that has played a part in this is the rise in company start-ups to almost pre-recession levels.

Over 7,000 new Irish companies have already been incorporated in 2014 – 16% up on the same period in 2013 (6,088).

This rise in start-ups is part of the reason that we’ve seen 10,599 individuals become a director in an Irish company for the first time this year.

5,807 Irish companies have been dissolved in 2014 which means that for every five company closures that have taken place this year we’ve seen six company start-ups.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y45q0lfEHfg

What you may need to know

1. It’s a new comic book adaptation from Matthew Vaughan, who did
Kick-Ass (2010) and X-Men: First Class (2011).

2. @ 1’17, or thereabouts. It’s Mark Hamill. Seriously. Hamill cameos in
the original comic as himself. But doesn’t play himself in the movie.
Confused?

3. We can’t quite believe that Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson have
never starred in the same movie before. They’ve already done another.
NB: This should offer a handy shortcut next time you play Six Degrees
Of Kevin Bacon.

4. Here‘s a shot by shot breakdown, for geeks.

5. Bonus Point for attempting to make The Doors cool again.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Avengers (1960s TV)  meets The Avengers (2012)

Release Date: October

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LEGO Ideas (formerly Cuusoo) user ‘ysomt’ was inspired by the Avengers film to realise the Helicarrier in LEGO form.

At 217 x 115 cm and using nearly 23,0000 bricks this beast of a model is fantastic, if a little impractical to compile as a set.

Harrumph.

There’s plenty more pictures on the project page.

Cool Stuff: 22,000-Piece Avengers Lego Helicarrier Design

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