http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSfb4XFg6o
Indeed and he can
Greg writes:
Just thought I’d let you know that [multi-instrumentalist] Paul Quinn has just thrown up a new YouTube video and it’s amaze-balls. Literally. It’s the Champions League Anthem [based on Handel’s Zadok the Priest] acoustic cover and it’s just lovely.
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[Angerla Kerins, Rehab CEO and John Maguire, the charity’s head of fundraising leaving last week’s Public Accounts Committe]
Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins did not disclose her husband’s large shareholding in a company when she told the Public Accounts Committee that its dealings with Rehab prompted him to resign his directorship of the company….
Ms Kerins’s brother Joseph McCarthy is also director and one-third shareholder of Complete Eco Solutions and Ms Kerins’s predecessor and senior Fine Gael strategist Frank Flannery is a director and one-third shareholder
Kerins Did Not Disclose Husband’s Shares To PAC (Irish Times)
Meanwile.
Last week
At the Public Accounts Committee hearing on Payments to Rehab..
Mary Lou McDonald: “Are you uncomfortable with the notion of family members, people close to you, having a commercial relationship with Rehab – given your position, does that put you….?”
Kerins: “I, in relation to this, I would always be uncomfortable…but people and families and people help out, and try to help out the Rehab Group across all of our staff and all of the families.”
McDonald: “I’m referring specifically to a commercial and transactional relationship, not a voluntary effort.”
Kerins: “Yes, to a degree and despite what one might hear, to the degree that I absented myself from any of this decision making and our audit committee and our board had to take oversight of that. It was a short-term activity so…”
McDonald: “How long did it go on for?”
Kerins: “Deputy McDonald, I don’t have any details of that activity with me so we’ll come back to you on it.”
McDonald: “Yeah. And tell me was there any, were any other family members of yours involved in this enterprise, or any other commerical venture?”
Kerins: “My husband was a director of it. But once this activity started, he stood down.”
McDonald: “Ok. And you have no further detail than that?”
Kerins: “No, and there has been no further dealings other than that one.”
McDonald: “So when did it cease? The pilot.”
Kerins: “Again, like I said, we’ll come back to you but it was probably about 2009/2010 but let me come back to you on that, I don’t have…”
McDonald: “But they only became operational in 2009, so, and by the way, are still operational to this day.”
Previously: That’d Be The brother
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Thank you Iain Henderson, Enda Cunningham, Alan Caulfield, Dermot Ahern, Nick Sutton, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Wroxy Meredith.
More to follow
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
From 1988, an ad for Sunday Night At The Olympia.
The Sunday night ‘fear’ untroubled by James Reilly in clerical garb with false teeth.
Comedy gold…
Voiceover by Brendan Balfe.
The second by Aoife Dooley. (of those Breaking Bad prints fame)
Aoife sez:
“This cover is based on all those unfortunate times my iPod has died or one earphone has stopped working on the bus home. I usually get caught with the school run, so this is a collection of different conversations/words talking over each other that I’ve wrote down on the bus in last few weeks.”
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue
More Aoife Dooley doodles here
A demonstration in support of Garda whistleblowers John Wilson and Maurice McCabe outside Mullingar Garda station, College Street, Mullingar, Co Westmeath this evening.
Via Ciaran Mullooly
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-hWzq67w4]
What you may need to know:
1. Frank is the fourth film directed by Lenny Abrahamson, after Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007) and What Richard Did (2012).
2. It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (Michael Fassbender), the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey.
3. One of Variety’s most anticipated films of SXSW.
4. Michael Fassbender in a papier–mache head, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson. What’s not to like?
5. In cinemas on May 9th.
Previously: Frank’s A Million
Broadsheet Trailer Park’s ‘Delboy’ is on holiday.
Further to the drop in the number of people signing on the live register.
“This [graph above] measures numbers between the 3rd quarter of 2011 (when unemployment in absolute numbers was at its highest) and the 4th quarter in 2013. The numbers in unemployment fell by 75,000.
However, the number of working age people emigrating was 116,000 while the numbers on labour activation schemes (training, education, etc.) increased by 29,000. The total number emigrating or additional labour activation participants increased at nearly twice the level of the fall in unemployment.”
Michael Taft, economist with UNITE the trade union [who acknowledges that not all emigration “can be put down to recession-related factors”].
Normal Euro zone Countries Don’t Export Their People (Michael Taft, Notes On The Front)
UPDATE: Protestors clash with Gardai outside the National Convention Centre, Dublin this evening. Three arrests have been made.
“I was standing at the barricades in front of the Convention c Centre, when around 15 Guards burst out from behind us and chased protesters down the street, targeting known activists…Many of my friends were injured and left in a state of shock by these actions. It was indefensible.”
Bridget, a member of Black Bloc [A collective seeking to combat austerity ‘through the re-appropriation of housing, goods and services’] this evening.
Thanks Andrew Diamond,and Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland
Earlier…
Scenes in and around the National Convention Centre, Dublin today for the European People’s Party Congress attended by EU leaders inside and Ukrainian and anti-austerity campaigners outside.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Of this nerdgasmic chocky-buttoned CRT orgy, John Gallen writes:
I took these pics down at IACT on Fitzwillam St Upper [Dublin] this afternoon – consoles, old Amstrads, Macs… and that’s Defender on the right screen in the first pic… ;)
Say their names. Right there. Oh yeah.
