An apparent bike snatching in progress in Cabinteely, Co Dublin moments ago.
More as we get it.
Thanks Mark Henderson
(from left: Michael McGrath Sean Fleming and Dara Calleary TD launching Fianna Fail’s alternative budget at the Alexander Hotel this morning)
You decide.
An adjustment of €2.4bn to deliver a budget deficit no greater than 5.0% in 2014
The split of the adjustment for 2014 should be approximately 50 / 50 between new tax and expenditure measures
The burden of adjustment should be levied in a progressive manner, unlike the current government’s two budgets to date
Education, Disability and Mental Health services should be protected and not be subject to any further cuts
A suite of “innovative policies” to encourage and promote private enterprise…
Hmm.
“We need to ensure that domestic entrepreneurs are incentivised with the same priority given to foreign direct investment.
“We are bringing forward measures which will underpin this commitment, including a lower rate of capital gains tax for entrepreneurs, tax relief for individuals making loan capital investments to SMEs and an expansion of the JobAssist scheme.”
Fianna Fail Spokesperson on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Dara Calleary TD
A Fairer Future For Ireland (Fianna Fail)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
The utterly hatstand sport of tether car racing dates back to the 1930s. AMRCA which oversees the three existing US tracks in California, Indianapolis and Long Island explainz:
The classes are 1.5cc (.09 cu in), 2.5cc (.15 cu in), 5cc (.29 cu in), and 10cc (.61 cu in). Running on an alcohol-oil fuel and using tuned exhaust pipes the engines peak out at over 44,000 rpm in the smallest class. The cars run on a special circular track held to the center post by a wire tether. The person running the car stays on the outside of the track and the helper in the center assists the car off the line and stabilizes it until it reaches about 80 mph and then steps onto a small platform on the center pole until the car is shut off at the end of the run.
In the clip above, filmed at Whittier Narrows in California back in 2011, an especially nippy model accelerates to a squealy, supercar-bothering 205mph (330km/h).
Splutter.
EPB writes:
It can be difficult to find your way around the winding corridors of the European Parliament in Brussels [Belgium]. It’s fairly easy to find the one Sinn Féin MEP (Martina Anderson)’s office though…
FIGHT!
vaughanb tweetz:
Epitome of hypocrisy
Govt ‘lack of political will’ on child protection condemned (Paul Keenan, The Irish Catholic)
The Irish Mirror reports that horse mogul J.P. McManus is close to completing the revamp of his mansion which is next door to the Sandy Lane resort he owns with fellow tax compliant tycoons Dermot Desmond, John Magnier and others in Barbados.
He reportedly bought the former home of horse breeder Robert Sangster for €31m in 2006 and is spending €150m on the upgrade.
€150m.
JP’s €150m paradise island getaway (Jeremy Armstrong, Irish Mirror)
JP McManus’ €150m Barbados mansion almost complete (Eugene Phelan, Limerick Leader)
Photos: (Top and centre) Jeremy Armstrong/Daily Mirror, (bottom) Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
H/t: Niall O’M
Carmageddon
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Of this seven and a half minute compilation of pyromaniacal GTA V gameplay spawnanigans, Youtuber Fyshokid of SubParButInHD sez:
I used to do this all the time in GTA San Andreas, however it wasn’t possible in IV, since you couldn’t spawn multiple cars using cheats. Luckily, it’s possible again in V, which makes for a ton of hardware punishing fun…it’s just all out car pile-up chain reactions!
Badum…
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…Tish!
The second instalment of cdza’s Instrumentals Series features jazz drummer Allan Mednard’s effortless transition through the modern history of the beat.
Previously: 50 Years Of The Guitar Solo
(At Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, from top, the remains of: James William Cusack, doctor and prominent member of the Royal Dublin Society in 1861 and his descendants; poet, politician and painter George William Russell, whose pseudonym was Æ; Arthur Guinness, and Dowager Countess de Lusi.)
Take that, Glasnevin.
Ciarán, of Come Here To Me, writes:
“You don’t generally think of a cemetery as a place to go sightseeing, but Mount Jerome, bought by the then newly formed General Cemetery Company of Dublin in 1836 and receiving its first burial in September of that year is an example of Victorian affluence worth a look for the enormity of some of the tombs alone. Hidden Dublin by Frank Hopkins notes that while it was envisaged that the cemetery would host both protestant and catholic burials, the first catholic burial did not take place there until the 1920′s, when Glasnevin Cemetery was closed due to a strike.”
Meanwhile, he adds:
“After a fruitless search, I cannot find who Dowager Countess de Lusi is. If anyone could shed any light, please give us a mail or a comment.”
Anyone?
