From 1987 an ad for Smithwicks.
A generation before Equity actors were replaced by a squirrel.
Lorcan Cranitch plays Jack, the barman is played by the late Peter Caffrey,
Name the drinker/pub, anyone?
[Philomena Lee; with her daughter, Jane Libberton, top, and with journalist Martin Sixsmith, above, at the launch the Philomena Project in Dublin today.
98FM reports:
The Government’s been urged to change the laws which prevent adopted people from accessing their birth records.
It comes from the Philomena Project, which has the backing of Philomena Lee, whose 50-year search for her son inspired a book and Oscar-nominated film.
The group says over 60,000 records are being held by the HSE, Catholic Church and private agencies that hold the identities of these people.
Government Urged To Change Adoption Laws (98FM)
Philomena Project to help adoptees find families (Irish Examiner)
Pic: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland and Sharon Gaffney
The Irish Times reports:
A special viewing room is to be made available to the public to watch the upcoming trial of former senior staff at Anglo Irish Bank.
The Courts Service has confirmed that the level of public interest in the case is expected to be such that it will turn a vacant courtroom in the Criminal Courts of Justice into an overflow viewing room for the trial, which will take place in a courtroom upstairs.
On most days, members of the public will be able to watch proceedings by video link in Court One, which is usually used as a District Court.
Seems Legit
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Franco writes:
Got this in the letterbox [Dublin] this morning , clothing collection complete with company reg number no 287899 , only this was a software company in Dublin dissolved in 2000…
Anyone?
Carmelised
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RTÉ reports:
Around 300 staff at Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin are set to lose their jobs as the directors of the hospital apply to the courts for the appointment of a liquidator.
While it is unclear when the hospital will actually close, sources said that NAMA was likely to fund an orderly wind-down of the operation and that staff will be paid in the interim.
300 jobs set to go as Mount Carmel Hospital applies for liquidator (RTÉ)
Lunchbox Zen
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Bento boxes by food artist Gamene, who used to make these to cheer herself up during a previous career as a lawyer, during which time she photographed hundreds of her squeeful creations.
Via Eveningecho.ie and Independent_ie
[Bono at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yesterday]
Bono spoke to Pat Kenny on Newstalk from Davos this morning following a night with the Irish delegation.
Bono: “It’s all sorts and the Taoiseach and Minister Noonan are doing an unbelievable job with the IDA. That’s what I was doing last night. They had a load of people in the room, locked in a room…”
Both laugh
Bono: “…until they agreed to move their companies to Ireland: Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs was the theme last night. And I must say the two of them made me very proud to be Irish. And Barry O’Leary, the guy from the IDA – he spoke extremely well, very…without notes, just really beautiful about the country and then, you know I was really struck by..these two men spoke very modestly on our behalf. They’re actually very modest men themselves. And that I think struck everyone that was there. I made up for it by the way. But they were very modest. And the coalition – Labour deserves some [inaudible] too, you know. They’ve been through rough, rough times and they’re still there for a lot of people but, you know, you can see some light at the end of the tunnel.”
Later
Pat Kenny: “In Africa, good governance is the holy grail because it is a continent of unbelievable wealth, if only it could be tapped for it’s people, by it’s people.”
Bono: “You are exactly right and, you know, I should say something, I don’t know if people know this but Richard Bruton, Minister Bruton, was really pivotal in getting new legislation in Europe, to make it law, that any mining company, in the extractive industry, registered in the European Stock Exchange, have to publish what they pay for those mining rights. And you think, well, of course, what could be difficult about that? Well you see that is where corruption is, the declared amounts and the real amounts are often different by hundreds of millions. And there’s a transparency revolution breaking across the world right now because of technology, technology is turbo-charging that revolution, people know what’s going on in their government budgets, or want to know.”
Right so.
Oh.
Further to the ‘frustratingly inconclusive‘ ending to RTÉ One’s drama Amber.
Gaff Gaff writes:
A disturbing discussion on the possible alternate endings to Amber [on page 9 of today’s Irish Star], speculating on whether she could be raped, murdered or held in a dungeon.
Meanwhile…
