On November 22 last, it was widely reported that Savita Halappanavar’s medical notes showed there was no recording of a request made by her, for a termination.

Last week, on the eve of the preliminary hearing of Savita’s inquest in Galway, RTÉ News led with reports that medical notes existed showing a request had been made.

Last night, Paul Cullen, who covered the inquest for the Irish Times, tweeted:

Prompting this flurry:

The RTÉ story remains on the station’s website.

Anyone?

“There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf.  And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

We are starting to see this in the demonstrations on the streets of Athens, Madrid and Rome. We are seeing it in the parliaments of Berlin, Helsinki and Dublin the Hague.”

David Cameron earlier.

David Cameron’s Speech On The EU: Full Text (New Statesman)

Facebook announced its latest data mining feature Graph Search last week to much fan fare.

Throughout the presentation, Mark Zuckerberg emphasised that user’s privacy was at the forefront of the developers’ minds when creating the feature.

The problem is Facebook’s byzantine privacy settings which could mean your data gets leaked.

Enter Tom Scott and his Tumblr of actual searches focusing on the juxtapositions between the things you’ve probably absentmindedly liked over the years.

There’s the creeptastic:

There’s the potentially life-threatening:

And, of course, the simply amusing:
Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been taking his full €150,000 a year pension since he left the Dail, after reversing his decision to give part of it back to the State.
The revelation comes as new figures released under Freedom of Information legislation show that only seven out of 116 former ministers gave up part of their pensions last year, despite the introduction of a simple system to allow them to do so.
None of the Fianna Fail ministers who presided over the economic crash gave up any part of their pensions.

Just let let that sink in.

Bertie is trousering €12.500 a month – about €3,000 a week.  Which would be about €600 a day if he was working. Which he’s not.

Then re-watch this.

Now. Who needs a brisk walk in the crisp morning air when you can get your pulse racing like that?

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern does U-turn on ‘gift’ and takes full €150,000 pension (Michael Brennan, Irish Independent)

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