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— Three Ireland Online (@ThreeCare) June 24, 2013
Three announces takeover of O2.
Network goes down.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0Tbif4jw9Lc#at=94
277 pints per person!
The ten biggest beer drinking countries in the world.
Damn thirsty Czechs.
Thanks a
Vanessa Sullivan writes:
I went into [a] Insomnia yesterday to get some coffee and I was talking to the woman on duty. She went in to find she would be there for NINE hours on her own because she said the Company don’t want pay an extra person to work, in case it’s not that busy.
The place was packed being that it is the height of summer. She had to get store security up to mind the cash register if she wanted to use the toilet (which could be a 20 minute wait for security to come up to her) and no break since there is no cover. The company does not recognise trade unions or give permanent contracts.
She requested that as many people as possible email insomnia and complain to back her up. Please email hr@insomnia.ie. and info@insomnia.ie and show support to the staff of Insomnia and send a message to company bosses that this blatant disregard for employee rights is not acceptable.
Update:
Fiona, of Insomnia, writes:
We have followed up on Vanessa Sullivan’s comments and found that none of our employees in Cork work 9h shifts on Sunday.
The branch in question on Patrick Street is open for only 6hrs (Eason opening hours: 12 – 6pm).on a Sunday
Sunday trading levels in this store are the lowest in the group and last week we made a decision to reduce the number of employees on Sunday. All employees at Insomnia @ Eason, were offered to work half a day on Sunday but they preferred to make the shift into a full day at a premium rate. This was agreed with all employees at Insomnia Cork.
Insomnia promotes an open door policy and we’re disappointed to hear that the employee did not talk to her Manager or Head Office if she was unhappy about the shift. We will now split the Sunday shift into 2 separate ( 3 hr. ) shifts.
We at Insomnia treat all our employees very well and comply with the legislation and H&S requirements.
Fiona O ‘Doherty
Insomnia Coffee Company
Pic: Insomnia.ie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N95tCG4leWY
The team that arranged this bizarre musical cover, including Uriel Seidel, sez:
Bats produce sounds that are not audible to human ears. First these ultrasounds were digitally reduced to frequencies that are audible. Then the different batsounds were assigned different keys on a keyboard. On this keyboard – the only real Bat-Organ – Ulrich Seidel played the Batman Theme (Neal Hefti, 1966). The video clip was compiled by Sándor Seuntjens using footage from Batman (film, 1966), Batman (animated television series, 1992-95), and National Geographic.
Recorded in the run up to the bank guarantee.
A mere fragment of a transcript of a conversation between Anglo Irish Bank senior managers John Bowe and Peter Fitzgerald from September 2008 revealed by Paul Williams in today’s Irish Independent.
This exchanges (above) occurred following a meeting between the bank and the Financial Regulator’s office at the Central Bank to assess Anglo’s bad debt exposure.
Mr Bowe is asked by Mr Fitzgerald how they had come up with the figure of €7bn.
“Just, as Drummer (then-CEO David Drumm) would say, ‘picked it out of my arse‘.”
Inside Anglo: the secret recordings (Paul Williams, Irish Independent)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Woke up this afternoon and I crawled right out of a skip,
Well my Liger was gone, and I was left here all dehydrated,
Yeah, I ain’t had no Cheese Flavoured Moments since 1524,
No, I been selling crack to nuns and using an arthritic old man as a surfboard since the age of three,
Think I’ll go and eat decorative gravel before the deep orange colouration in my urine gets too much.
Mmf.
Unless you can do better.
Oh please do better.
A demonstration against SNA cuts from March 2010 when Fine Gael and Labour were in opposition.
All the gang’s there; Bottler, Enda, Hayeser, James Bannon, Eamon, even Willie Penrose.
They even had a Private Members Motion put forward by Brian Hayes.
Fine Gael Special Education Needs Motion – Dail Eireann 31st March 2010 (Dan Neville, Fine Gael TD)
Top pic via SpNeedsParents
(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)
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Photographer Diane Dodd’s pictures of a trapper’s pickup in a Savannah Georgia parking lot, adorned with the pelts and stuffed carcasses of his prey (including an obligatory bullfrog sucking on a bottle of Jack Daniels)
Bottler.
He simply can’t help himself.
All the money so far provided from a funding boost for autism services announced by Minister for Health James Reilly last year has been spent on cutting waiting lists for children with the condition in his political heartland in north Dublin, newly released documents show.
Just €300,000 of the €3 million promised over three years by Dr Reilly in January 2012 has so far been allocated, all of it to north Dublin, according to the documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Dr Reilly’s announcement in January 2012 of an additional €3 million in funding for children with autism appears to have taken his own officials by surprise, the documents show. One told a colleague in an internal email that it was “news to me” while another referred to the matter as coming “out of the blue”.
All the money.
Analysis: Minister’s indecision blocked €3m autism support (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)
Meanwhile, why does Dr Reilly’s personal website reilly.ie forward to the Department of Health’s site?
Anyone?
Any excuse
(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)