The Pop Up City tweetz:
“An amazing urban farm is taking shape on the roof of Dublin’s Chocolate Factory [King’s Inn Street, Dublin]. Here’s the chicken coop!”
Oh, go on then.
If you must.
‘Fr’ Neil Horan jigging outside the Margaret Thatcher funeral in London this morning.
Mourning in London this morning.
Cherie Blair, Norma Major, Tony Blair, John Major (top) and Henry Kissinger (centre) at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral.
Limerick turncoat Terry Wogan (above) took the tradesman’s entrance.
Thatcher Funeral Live Blog (Guardian)
Earlier: She Loved Us
Paul writes:
A holy show in Ballsbridge [Dublin] this morning.
Justice Adrian Hardiman
Possibly brooding over these figures.
From the 2010 table of salaries of 45 countries by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice. Ireland came second only to the UK in judges’ starting salaries.
However…
The Association of Judges of Ireland says take-home pay for serving judges has fallen by a third since 2009 and up to 45 per cent for new judges.
It has expressed “grave concerns” about pension terms for incoming judges, who – under the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 – will have to serve 20 years instead of 15 before they can draw a full pension.
Future appointees must also pay a 13 per cent contribution towards their pension, instead of 4 per cent by serving judges.
The association said the extension to 20 years before a full pension entitlement is acquired had “considerable consequences for both quality and experience” of future candidates.
“Grave concerns” .
Similar to the “generational damage” the Irish Medical Organistation spoke of last week?
*puts on kettle*
Judges say take-home pay has fallen by a third since 2009 (Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Irish Times)
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, PDF 17.6MB
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
She Loved Us
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“She came up to me and she said, ’I’ve got one thing to say to you, my boy … you can’t trust the Irish, they are all liars’, she said, ’liars, and that’s what you have to remember, so just don’t forget it’. “With that she waltzed off…
Peter Mandelson on a chance meeting with Margaret Thatcher on his first day as Northern Ireland Secretary on BBC Radio 4.
Mmf..
Thatcher dubbed all Irish ‘liars’, Mandelson says (Irish Examiner)
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
(Eamon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Brazilian ‘freestyle footballer’ Murilo Pitol shows off his lightning fast skillanigans.
Kanye Fail
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Parks and Recreation actress and comedian Aubrey Plaza attempts an abortive Kanyebomb at the MTV Music Awards on Sunday, attempting to steal Will Ferrell’s award, failing and returning awkwardly to her seat.
Asked about the incident later, Ferrell responded: “I think she wanted to tell me something important. It was just a lot of hot liquor breath and sweat. Then she ran away.”
MTV insists the stunt was not pre-planned.
*cough*
The court heard the case arose over the purchase, in 2000, by Mr O’Brien of 6 Raglan Road, Ballsbridge (above)… The seven-bedroom detached period house was bought through a company, Partenay Ltd.
In view of that, the Revenue argued the Appeals commissioner should have gone on to decide whether his personal and economic interests were closer to Ireland than to Portugal, thereby making him tax liable him in accordance with the Ireland/Portugal Double Taxation Convention
…The court heard Mr O’Brien employed a number of architectural and building experts to show the Raglan Road house was not habitable at the time and needed extensive renovation not completed until 2002. A builder and an engineer said parts of the house were dangerous.…The previous owners of Raglan Road, the Whites, disputed evidence from Mr O’Brien’s architectural and engineering experts that the house was not in a good condition. As far as they were concerned, the house was extremely comfortable and not deficient in any way…
Denis O’Brien takes on Revenue over €57m (Irish Times)
(Google)
