‘Little Taekwondo masters’ – a 2011 clip uploaded by Youtuber weiyeu2, recently resurfaced (due to its weapons-grade squee) and currently doing the rounds.
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It’s budget day!
Rathmines, Dublin this morning.
Thanks Dongle
Meanwhile…
Ballyogan, Co Dublin earlier.
Thanks JP Howe
Here.
Stop that.
Spotted in the window of shop on Mountpleasant Avenue, Rathmines).
(Thanks Mick Flavin)
Chris Murphy tweetz:
The official fix to the IADT student handbook. That’ll do.
It’s A Gig
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Sara Murphy writes:
A disorientated swan got an escort across the [Ha’penny] bridge [Dublin, yesterday] from two slightly nervous looking guards and drawing a gaggle of paparazzi behind them.
It’s just the state paying some of Fine Gael’s legal fees for the Moriarty Tribunal.
Yes. The tribunal set up to investigate then Fine Gael Minister Michael Lowry’s malfeasance.
We must have agreed to it.
Mr Worf writes:
Buried on the Taoiseach’s official site, published on eve of budget so no one might notice…
Must.
Stay.
Cool.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Darragh Clifford, Colin McGann, Iain Henderson, Enda Cunningham, Neil Henderson, Barry Duggan, Geoff McGrath and Joe Donnelly
So we were fortunate that we had colleagues in Europe that were prepared to support us. We were fortunate that we had the IMF that were prepared to support us because if we didn’t have those lenders of last resort everything that we have done over the last four years or so would have to be done in one fell swoop, in one budget where the living standards of everybody in the country would’ve been cut by about 60%. And if you want to see what happened elsewhere, have a look at Iceland where 40% of personal savings were wiped out.
Have a look at Argentina who defaulted twice in the last twenty years or so. They still can’t access money in the international markets and at each default it got so bad that middle class decent people who lost their jobs were searching in dustbins to get food to feed their families. So we were lucky we had our lenders of last resort.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan speaking at the afternoon session of the Fine Gael national conference in Limerick on Saturday.
Watch the full speech here (Scroll to around the 1:51 mark)
Apologies for the sound quality.
We didn’t get past the ‘French’ bloke at le door.
The launch of Eamon Dunphy’s autobiography The Rocky Road this evening at the Patrick Guilbaud, Merrion Street, all the way in Dubbelin’, whack-fol-la-de-da, etc.
From top: Eamon Dunphy with John Giles and Liam Brady; With Bill O’Herlihy: launch speech; with Louis Walsh and at the podium (name that painting anyone?).
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)