Hmm.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and an enigmatic Enda Kenny in the taoiseach’s office at government buildings this morning.
*fills pipe*
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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Happy International Women’s Day.
Members of the Ireland Women’s rugby side who play France TONIGHT for the Grand Slam, from left: Niamh Kavanagh, Alison Miller, Sophie Spence and Larissa Muldoon.
The team are backing Plan Ireland’s Raise your Hand campaign which is urging the world donor community to make girls education a top priority.
Picture Jason Clarke
A supercut of some of cinema’s finest steadicam sequences by Larry Wright of Refocused Media.
Complete shot list here.
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Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who recently brought us images of Belfast and Dublin from orbit, is not merely a decent space-based snapper.
As this illustrated advice from his recent AMA (ask me any questions) session on Reddit by Zen Pencils demonstrates.
Previously: Belfast From Space
[via io9]
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Staff and freelance workers at the Irish Sun office in Dublin, above, yesterday after former Communications Minister and Green party leader Eamon Ryan, on Tonight With Vincent Browne, claimed there were only “very small numbers” of Irish people working in the News International office, which includes The Sunday Times.
Also on the panel were former Sunday Tribune editor, Noirin Hegarty, Sunday Independent deputy business editor, formerly of The Sunday Times, Tom Lyons and former business correspondent with the Sunday Independent, Martin Fitzpatrick.
Eamon Ryan: “Vincent, can I tell you where some of the money is going, in Irish media. Half a billion is going out of this country to Rupert Murdoch every year. (Inaudible)…huge profits made in Irish media – some of those, Vodafone, O2, some of those phone companies. They’re making a fortune out of Irish media. Now they’re actually carrying it, they’re not the content provider. But there are areas in Irish media which are hugely profitable and I think we have to look at a public policy basis to say are we happy with that? Do we want to just let Irish journalism run out, run to real trouble? And allow Sky take a fortune out of the country every year?”
Noirin Hegarty: “But Eamon, in fairness, Irish journalists are employed in The Sunday Times. They’re employed in The Sun. They’re employed in Murdoch titles.”
Ryan: “Very small numbers.”
Hegarty: “There are jobs being created here.”
Ryan: “Very small numbers. Very good people, but very small numbers. And very little of that money is invested back in this country.”
Hegarty: “But you were talking about how little opportunities there are (for young journalists to get jobs)..you know?”
Ryan: “Sky drains money out of this country and with the exception of some very good journalists in The Sunday Times and elsewhere, they don’t put the same resources back in. And we should be pushing them towards that.”
Hegarty: “But the reality of the new media feature is your competition is from everywhere, it’s from Facebook, it’s from Google, it’s from all of the other, it’s from Microsoft, it’s from everybody, where the advertising revenue is going.”
Vincent Browne: “Tom.”
Tom Lyons: “Sky is employing…it’s hiring 800 people in the middle of a downturn. It’s said it’s going to invest a billion here. You know, yes, there are profits being taken out but I can certainly say that, you know, The Sunday Times. They’re not making huge supernormal profits here. They’re making a good product here. And but I wouldn’t say it’s that much far ahead of break even.”
Watch here @23.15
(Pic: Jennifer O’Brien)
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Redditor JoDiegoJo sez:
This is the letter my best friend made me when I was in ICU with short term memory loss. She also took leave from her job and stayed at my house with my children so that my husband could be at the hospital with me.
Now that’s a best friend.
Two nuns who were involved in running Magdalene laundries have hit back at criticisms of the four congregations which operated the 10 such institutions in Ireland up to 1996.
In interviews to be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s The God Slot at 10 o’clock tonight “Sister B” said: “All of the shame of the era is being dumped on the religious orders.”
When asked whether an apology might be appropriate after the McAleese report on the laundries, “Sister A” responded, “apologise for what?”
Now, now, don’t dress it up in vague platitudes, sis.
Previously: Result!
Magdalene nuns hit back at critics and defend their role (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Richard Cantwell asks:
Has the Drimnagh microwave swanned it over to the S.C.R.?
It would appear not.
Still. Mmf.
Previously: The Ballad Of The Drimnagh Microwave