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We have one, yes just ONE, box of Irish-made food-based board game Smorgasboard to give away.

Cooked up in Hasbro, Co Waterford city, Smorgasboard is the perfect mealtime diversion for couples/families that have literally run out of things to say to each other all ages.

To enter…

The Fourth Annual Great Irish Foodie Quiz will take place on Thursday, March 7 from 7.30pm in The Circle Club of the Bord Gais Theatre. Entry costs €100 for a team of four with all proceeds going to Down Syndrome Ireland. Pre-Booking (essential) here.

Team names already booked include My Little Pony Burgers, Gastronomicon and A Flock of Budgies

Unless you can do better.

Lines close at 1.45pm  2.15pm.

The team name judged finest takes the ‘Smorgasboard’. Winner announced in comments.

Smorgasbord.

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Screen Shot 2013-02-27 at 09.47.32James McClean (top) and wide-brimmed IRA gentlemen from the 1920s.

It comes after the Republic of Ireland star professed his love for song The Broad Black Brimmer by The Wolfe Tones prior to Sunderland’s game against West Bromwich Albion at the weekend.

The song tells of a boy whose father is killed while fighting for the IRA, with the title referring to the wide-brimmed hat worn by many of the group’s members in the 1920s during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War.

McClean tweeted: ‘On flight for the maras game. Only one thing for it —headphones in, Wolfe Tones on! What’s everyone’s fave song? Broad Black Brimmer edges mine.’

 

EXCLUSIVE: McClean Removed From Twitter After Sunderland Winger’s Controversial Comments Spark IRA Sectarian Row (Mail Online)

The Broad Black Brimmer by The Wolfe Tones

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Gavin

Gavin Sheridan (above), known as the FOI-nator for his repeated requests for documents under the freedom of information act, will today learn if Nama and Anglo/IBRC are considered ‘public authorities’ under an EU directive, known as Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) Regulations.

It’s been a three-year campaign for Gavin, who told his story in the most recent edition of the Sunday Business Post magazine (above), saying:

“Without adequate access to information, all citizens do not have proper freedom of expression, and we all suffer as a result. If we really want a reformed Ireland, and to learn from the lessons of the past, we must make a decision: secrecy or transparency? And if we choose the latter it must come from the top down. Anything less and we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.”

 

Fair play though. In fairness.

More here.

Update:

 

Nama Loses Information Appeal (Irish Times)

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