And that’s all that matters
Chris Somers writes:
On sale in Tesco. Spotted on Friday but I said I’d hold off as this is really the kind of thing that gets the spirits up on a dreary Monday morning.
Any excuse
Mild-mannered chat show host Stephen Nolan,from BBC NI, cruelly denied an interview with soon-to-be-Fine-Gael-TD Helen McEntee, pours out his heart on the day of the Meath East by-election.
Oh, the humanity.
Thanks anon
Please?
Dublin city on Saturday evening.
Mmf.
Thanks Daniel Dudek-Corrigan
Slieve Commedagh, Slieve Meelmore, Slieve Bernagh, Slieve Donard and the Castles being skiied over Easter weekend.
No ski-lifts.
Filmed and edited by Paul Swail.
The line up for the Longitude whatsit.
Sunday so…
*applies red lipstick, performs detailed robot dance*
Otaga Times (New Zealand), April 20, 1899.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
The proposal, made on a number of occasions in the 19th century, for a canal from Dublin to Galway through which transatlantic steamers would travel on their way to Europe. Had it gone ahead, it would have been the Irish version of the Panama canal, severing the country in two. It never happened, possibly because it was quicker for the ships to go the longer way round than to stop at every lock…
Medical specialists in Ireland are now the lowest-paid within the English-speaking world, the president of the Irish Medical Organisation has said. In his presidential address to the organisation’s annual conference on Saturday, Dr Matt Sadlier (above) warned the recent 30 per cent cut in salaries for newly appointed hospital consultants could cause “generational damage” to the Irish health service.
The IMO president neglects to say that existing hospital consultants are paid one third more than their counterparts in the North and Britain in the NHS.
*lifts tiny violin to chin*
Medics in Ireland are lowest-paid in English-speaking world, IMO told (Irish Times)
(IMO)
Pierce Gleeson writes:
We encountered this cliff face of icicles walking in Glendalough [Co Wicklow] on Saturday. On the east face of Lugduff. Many of the icicles were eight or ten feet long. As we stood watching a few collapsed with booming cracking noises.
Mr Hogan insisted the controversial charges would be imposed as planned from January next year — but could be delayed if Finance Minister Michael Noonan managed to get a new agreement with the IMF/EU/ECB on the matter.
Irish Examiner, Friday
“We have always said that water charges will be based on a metering system and my understanding is that there will not be sufficient metering done by January to allow a charging regime to come in,”
Eamon Gilmore, Irish Times today.
Mark writes:
A busy weekend for Labour’s spin merchants. How to make Eamon look decisive and in control? Very sad.
Gilmore says water charges will not be introduced next January (Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)