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Unearthed in a second hand record shop in Cork and uploaded direct from vinyl to the internets only today – feast your ears on this ‘song’ recorded to mark the 5th birthday of 2FM in 1984.

‘Gram Blaster Flash’ featuring the vocal stylings of Gerry Ryan, Dave Fanning, Peter Collins, Marty Whelan, Larry Gogan & BP Fallon.

Cover scans: Mek and Jeremy Murphy.

Ciaran Savage adds:

Found this (below) on a board in my childhood bedroom in De Blanch. Anyone know when Radio 2 became 2fm?

(Thanks Oisín)

 

“The agreement significantly cuts the Irish sovereign’s funding requirement. The government estimates it will have to borrow less than €1bn a year to service the interest on the new government bonds, compared with payments of over €3bn annually on the promissory notes. It also simplifies the complex and opaque arrangements including ELA loans parallel with the promissory notes that have been in place since the financial crisis.”

 

“The Irish government estimates the interest saved on the new government bonds compared with the promissory notes to be worth about €1.1bn in 2013, €0.9bn in 2014, and €0.7bn in 2015. In 2013, the savings are cancelled out by the estimated costs of liquidating IBRC, but in both 2014 and 2015, the result should be to lower the government’s budget deficit by 0.6% of GDP.”

 

Which is all a bit ritch.

Fitch Says Ireland Deal Eases Fiscal Pressure, Improves Transparency (Reuters)

Solidarity With The Magdalenes is a Facebook page set up by supporters of the magdalenes.

They will be meeting tomorrow at the gates of Stephen’s Green, Dublin, at 11.30am to put flowers at a memorial bench [unveiled by Mary Robinson in 1996] to those who worked in the laundries (above) in the green.

You can show your support here.

In Cork there will be flowers laid at St Joseph’s Graveyard on the Tory Top Road tomorrow at 2pm.

Thanks Rachel Robinson

Pic: Magdalenelaundries.com

Meanwhile, in March

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