dungarvanClaire says:

Coffee and Oatmeal Stout 2014, not only perfectly-sized for stockings but it’s Christmas morning breakfast sorted too from Dungarvan brewery.

 

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la bougie

Sorcha Furlong writes:

Products from ‘Give Irish Crafts’ and ‘La Bougie’ [West Cork candle perfumery] are great stocking fillers AND  wonderful Irish crafted products.

 

 

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Kelvin Farrell writes:

“I design art prints which I sell online. Not expensive at €17.99, but the stocking might need to be knee height to fit the tube in!”

 

Kelvin Farrell Design

Irish-made ‘stocking fillers’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

Previously: Stocking Filler

Eugene

Doras Luimní writes:

“Breaking news from Limerick District Court today…Judge Eugene O’Kelly [above] accepted an application from An Garda Siochana to withdraw civil order applications issued earlier in the year for anti-social behaviour (ASBO’s) against eight Romanian women allegedly involved in prostitution in Limerick city. Allegations of coercion, control and trafficking were made by defending Solicitor Darach McCarthy and accepted by Judge O’Kelly. Judge O’Kelly pointed to flaws in legislation and suggested that the demand for prostitution should be tackled rather than target the victims. Doras Luimní and the Red Ribbon Project were at court this morning to make a formal statement illustrating our concerns.”

Doras Luimní

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UCD old boy Peter Sutherland at the official opening of a new €25million law school in University College Dublin today which the college have kindly named after him.

The largest theatre in the new €25 million  Lizard School of Economic Management UCD Sutherland School of Law also serves as a ceremonial moot court. In this simulated courtroom setting students will better develop their advocacy, dispute resolution, client counselling and negotiation skills

 

Mr Sutherland was a Fine Gael-appointed former attorney general of Ireland in the 1980s and a former EU Competition Commissioner. He is chairman of the London School of Economics, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Migration and non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. And is a leading member of the illuminati the secretive Bilderberg Group. Your basic human greed machine.

He’s also helping the Vatican with their finances.

Good times.

Thanks Jason Clarke

the-fumbally

‘Sup?

Brother Hubbard
Cake Café
Etto on Merrion Row
The Fumbally (above)

Coppinger Row

Fade Street Social

The six best ‘Hipster’ eateries in Dublin as recommended by Irish Daily Mail food critic Tom Doorley.

Pot/kettle aside we’re not sure Tom knows what a hipster is.

Also.

FIGHT!

Six Hipster Havens (Tom Doorley, TheDiningRoom.ie)

Crackbird?

Pic via TripAdvisor

Thanks Morgz

cdSanHY CsctRuv4ra5VbZTQ4rq4ykeOmCP94CHUaBUEvery month, when Redditor Tatsputin takes a work-related 3 hour flight, his two young children give him their drawings to colour in.

At first he used coloured pencils but has since switched to switched to his iPad and the ArtStudio app. He plans to return to coloured pencils.

Much like the collaboration of illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks and her daughter.

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fiona

Director of Credit Institution Supervision at the Central Bank Fiona Muldoon, above, is resigning.

It follows yesterday’s announcement that the CEO of RSA Insurance Group’s Irish unit, Philip Smith, had resigned following allegations of financial impropriety..

Earlier this month it emerged that an internal investigation was taking place into accounting practices at RSA Ireland and that  it needed a €100million capital injection.

In a statement yesterday Mr Smith said he was made a “fall-guy” as the investigation takes place.

RTÉ’s business editor David Murphy told Richard Curran on News At One:

David Murphy: “[Central Bank governor] Patrick Honohan said she had been a real agent for change and that she played a very big role in terms of changing the direction of the Central Bank over the past two and a half years. But it does come after a series of significant people within the bank, standing down from their positions. Matthew Elderfield, who was deputy governor of the bank has left to join Lloyd’s bank in the UK, Jonathan McMahon, who was Mathew Elderfield’s number two has left. Also Peter Oakes was a senior official and Lars Frisell, their senior economist, has left but Mr Honohon was very clear that the bank would have no difficulty in terms of carrying out its functions and said ‘look people come and people go, some stay longer than others and there’s been major changes at the Central Bank.”

Richard Curran: “Do you buy that David or is there a suggestion here somewhat that this is not a happy ship?”

Murphy: “Well I think that when you have so many high profile people leaving, it does raise question marks. Having said all of that, the real test I think came with the issue of RSA insurance, where the Central Bank spotted there was a problem, highlighted it to the parent company and it’s now being sorted out. So maybe institutional change is there but I think that it raises question marks when you see so many high profile people leaving all at once.”

Fiona Muldoon to quit Central Bank (RTÉ)

RSA Ireland CEO Smith resigns amid internal investigation

(RTE)

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At least one person has been injured as a chain store’s sales promotion descended into “bedlam”. Asda stores across Northern Ireland were scenes of chaos, according to callers to the BBC.
Hundreds of people queued outside the shop from 05:00 GMT for cut-price goods that included televisions sets which were reduced from £179 to £99.

However, when it got under way three hours later, there was what one woman described as a “stampede” with people wrestling over the goods. There were 24 sets on sale at the reduced price.


Scenes of chaos during chain store’s Black Friday sales (BBC News NI)

Pic: McLaughlin and Harvey

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