Outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin, last night.
Mmm.
Festive.
Earlier: Up The Pole Again
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
A Guinness world record breaking 30m long, 31,405 domino wall, built and toppled by Sinners Domino Production last July at the Wilhelm-Lückert-Gymnasium at Büdingen in Germany.
The full sequence, of which the wall formed part, involved 128,000 dominoes, of which 127,141 toppled.
Chris-Meh
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Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has warned banks that if they do not co-operate with the new personal insolvency scheme he would bring in new legislation to ensure their compliance. The Personal Insolvency Bill, a fundamental reform of the State’s antiquated bankruptcy laws, passed all stages in the Oireachtas last night and will be enacted before the end of the year.
He described the legislation as the “most radical reform since the foundation of the State”.
The new arrangements offer three separate court-backed mechanisms designed to help individuals with unmanageable debt – including mortgage debt – pay off a portion of their debt over a period of years, by means of an arrangement brokered by a licensed specialist known as a personal insolvency practitioner. It also provides for a new bankruptcy period of three years, rather than 12.
Among other things, it means Sean Quinn’s bankruptcy could end in 2015, rather than 2024.
So that’s nice.
Shatter warns banks to engage with debt law (Harry McGee, Irish Times)
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Deception.
TV3’s first commissioned drama series.
And surely Ireland’s first Ghost Estate-based telly show?
From director Hugh Farley:
Set on a once-affluent housing development in a fictional suburb of Galway City. When a murder victim is discovered in one of the unsold houses, it provokes a chain of events which threaten to reveal the darkest secrets of the development’s residents. Transmission starts in early January 2013.
Thanks Mac
Short: Tufty
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Fancy a good hard slap round the seasonal chops? Behold this adorably grim 2009 RTE/Filmbase short by Jason and Brendan Butler.
Do you know here your teddy bear really came from?
Seriously, don’t let your kids watch this.
Grafton Street, Dublin, this evening.
Thanks KC TodayFm
In an excerpt from the BBC documentary series One Pair Of Eyes from 1969, the late Sir Patrick Moore interviews a man who claims to be Jackie Healy-Rae able to speak and write three ‘space languages’.