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Cassidy’s ‘The Gathering’ window display in Ballymote, Sligo.
Annie West writes:
Granny’s looking a bit poorly.
PSY’s new single ‘Gentleman’ – video released yesterday and nearly nineteen million hits on YouTube already.
Expect to hear it everywhere.
Earlier this month, trading analyst Reggie Middleton (top) presented evidence on his blog of an anomaly/fraud at AIB which he predicts may cause a Cyprus-style swoop on the bank’s depositors.
This week, Reggie went on Max Keiser’s RT show to expand on the “nature of the fraud” and warned of even more dire consequences it may have for the Irish economy.
Sleep well.
Previously: AIB And ‘Fraud Of The Highest Order’
Thanks Wayne Murphy
One for the file.
Christine writes:
Watching the Masters and spotted
the illuminatia guy in a Kerry jersey. There’s always one.
Brandt Snedeker in position to win Masters as he enters final day at Augusta tied with Angel Cabrera for lead (New York Daily News)
Read more:
Thanks Christine
Previously; Is The GAA The Illuminati? on Broadsheet
Live from a (dimly-lit) 24-hour Spar.
More to follow.
Covers to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
For the evening that is in it.
He’s no Tom McGurk.
“Dewy-eyed nostalgia has been replaced with faith for the here and now”.
It’s got potential though.
Previously: A Game Like No Other
Careful Now
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Outside the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis at the Royal Hotel, Castlebar, Co Mayo, this morning.
Gwan the dog.
Meanwhile…
Martin McGuinness preparing and delivering the first keynote speech (see link below) of the conference in Mayo last night.
Martin McGuinness: “a lack of cohesion between Unionist and Republican Ministers … frankly this isn’t good enough” (Slugger O’Toole)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Untouchable?
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Evidently.
The issue involves prima facie evidence that at least one crime may have been committed by serving TD and former government minister, Michael Lowry…
…In a proper democracy, the police force and Revenue would investigate the contents of the Lowry Tapes with extreme urgency. Confidence in the criminal justice and tax systems would demand no less. If there is even a whiff of favour towards a member of parliament in a criminal justice matter, then democracy is undermined. And right now, in light of all that is going on, democracy is not in a healthy condition.
…There has been nothing from Enda Kenny to suggest that he takes the tapes issue seriously, or has consulted his Minister for Justice on the matter. Nothing from Alan Shatter to show that he takes his ministerial brief seriously. It would appear that Kenny et al are gambling that the public doesn’t appreciate the seriousness of what is at issue, and intend to keep their heads down until it blows over…
…The function of the media in a democracy has also been strained by the Lowry tapes. The Irish Examiner, Irish Times, Newstalk FM and TV3’s Vincent Browne Tonight have all covered the story in a manner befitting its seriousness. However, the national broadcaster has not.”
Michael Clifford in today’s Irish Examiner, about apparent inaction by gardaí, Revenue, the government and RTE over The Lowry Tapes.
Lowry and inaction of Gardaí/Revenue (By Michael Clifford, Irish Examiner)
Previously: So RTÉ, Which Is It?
(James Horan/Photocall Ireland)
Squished between a hairy-faced figure of fun and a hairy-faced figure of fun.
The buke – one of a limited edition signed, despite intense physical agony by editor Aidan Coughlan – in Dubray Books, Blackrock, Co Dublin.
Mmf.
Meanwhile…
Emma Mack writes:
The bit of soggy tissue on the ground outside the Two Sisters pub, Terenure [
CoDublin] that looks like Ireland.