David Murphy tweetz:
DeFENCEive parking in Cherrywood [Dublin 18].
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Disney Redux
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Two stills from classic 2D Disney movies 101 Dalmations and The Sword In The Stone given new life by digital artist Tyson Murphy, who used Photoshop to enhance them, adding depth and colour.
This appears to be the start of an ongoing project.
Tara Street, Dublin minutes ago.
Um.
Anyone?
Also, RUUUUUUN.
Thanks Steve Kingston
[Enda Kenny in the Dail this morning]
“For your information and for the information of the country, I attended at an occasion in Dublin here on Sunday. In the morning I called the Attorney General [Máire Whelan] who said that she would be in the Department in any event to prepare for Tuesday’s [Cabinet] meeting, as she normally does. And she did indicate to me that there was another matter that we should…that I should be made aware of and that the Attorney General was not prepared to talk to me about the matter on the telephone.”
Taoiseach Enda Kenny addressing Fianna Fáil leader Mícheal Martin minutes ago.
Earlier: The AG And The Whistleblower
Graph TV is a project by biologist/programmer Kevin Wu – a searchable webtool that analyses US TV shows based on their US ratings. The viral build of Breaking Bad, the demise of Dexter, the slow resurgence of Two And A Half Men after Charlie Sheen’s departure – it’s all here to be disputed and mulled over. To wit:
…a visualization tool which graphs tv show ratings by episode. Each season is assigned a different color and linear regressions are calculated for each season as well as for the entire series. Each point on the graph displays the episode title, rating, and other data. The data points are clickable and will open its IMDb entry. The graphs are also exportable for offline use.
What you may need to know
1. We loved Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip. Now they’re BACK!
2. The original six part series was condensed into a movie for US release, as will this sequel.
3. Steve Coogan, lest we forget, is now ‘Oscar-nominee Steve Coogan’.
4. Watch them discuss the italian Trip at length here. Steve Coogan talks a lot.
5. And yes, they do Michael Caine again.
Release Date: April 4 (on BBC 2)
…The Guardian also understands that a number of Dublin-based journalists are going to allege that their phones have been routinely monitored by gardai.
Since the imposition of the 2005 Garda Siochana Act ,the force has been accused of scanning reporters’ calls to establish if they have been talking to individual gardai. The 2005 Act imposes heavy penalties on Garda officers who brief members of the media.
Ireland’s justice minister faces grilling over Garda bugging scandal (Henry, McDonald, The Guardian)
Thanks Brian Sammon
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Relax
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[Attorney general Maire Whelan]
In January 2013 Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe wrote to the Attorney General Maire Whelan to relay his concerns about the penalty points issue.
“I am a public servant. I need to forward an email to your office but I need to be sure that it will remain private and confidential before I can send it.”
He was assured that his correspondence would be “handled in strict confidence” and he forwarded his allegations.
The Attorney-General’s office did not inform Sgt McCabe that they had earlier provided legal advice to the Gardai over the penalty points issue.
They then forwarded Sgt McCabe’s letter – despite his protests – to then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and justice minister Alan Shatter because the claims were “of such a serious nature”.
Good times
A-G’s office forwarded letter sent in confidence (Colum Kenny, Sunday Independent, May 13, 2013)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)