Meanwhile:

Jim Miley (above), project director of The Gathering is being paid € 168,000 a year in his role head of the tourism initiative. Miley, former chief executive of MyHome.ie and a former General Secretary of Fine Gael won a tender in May to run a “national tourism initiative and community development project.”

There were several applications for the role from senior marketing and tourism industry figures. Miley signed a contract on a salary of € 14,000 a month on May 18.

 

Gathering Chief Rakes in € 168,000 (Colin Coyle, Sunday Times – behind paywall)

Previously: The Man Behind The Gathering

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John Gallen writes:

I thought this may be of interest considering all the coverage of the fighting in Israel / Palestine over the past couple of weeks.

It is often said that Ireland or the Irish are anti-semitic. Something I have never believed. And now we have some proper research from the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel-Aviv University Their data has been put into a choropleth map by a Evangelos Kapros of TCD. More on him here 

Anyway, according to this map there has been 1 incident in Ireland per 2.4m individuals between 2001 and 2010.

The UK – 1 incident per 51,000
The USA – 1 incident per 75,000

So, the likelihood of an antisemitic incident is 32 times more likely in the USA than Ireland and 47 times more likely in the UK.

I think that should put an end to any nonsense of this island being called antisemitic for good. The next time someone speaks out for Palestine, it is more likely a show of solidarity for an oppressed people than any type of antisemitism.

 

‘Eddie’ writes:

After Fintan O’Toole recently got Colm Toibin to review – rapturously – the new book by Dairmuid Ferriter (two of his good mates), Ferriter gives Fintan’s own book a great review in today’s Irish Times – a review presumably  commissioned by the [paper’s] books editor (Fintan O’Toole).
There was also an actual extract of Ferriter’s book (on Ireland in the 1970s) in the Irish Times, before all this, in which he praised two of the then emerging intellectual writers – Fintan O’Toole and Colm Toibin.

 

Pics: Amazon

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVY-UPC654&feature=plcp

With big pots and a hot-as-curry spokeschef at 0.26.

Wolfe Tone Park, Dublin, this aftNOMNOMNOM.

James writes:

Hi. I’m  from the Feeding the 5,000 Dublin team, thought you might be interested in a short video from today’s event. We’ve been feeding people free curry all day in Dublin:

Feeding5kDublin

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