She is accused of: failing to produce a certificate of insurance or certificate of exemption to Gardaí within 10 days; using a ’05-registered vehicle which had no NCT, failing to produce a driving licence on January 6, failing to produce a NCT cert within 10 days, having no insurance, driving without a licence, failing to produce a licence within 10 days, and driving “without reasonable consideration for other persons”.

 

Blimey.

Twink Facing Motoring Offences In Court (BreakingNews)

“Irish Times ‘columnist’ Jim Carroll (above) is probably a nice guy when he isn’t on the long side of a whiskey shot or fur-balling acid reflux from too much corned beef and cabbage.

“This kind of cultural affliction, coupled with putting an egomaniac with an inferiority complex behind the computer screen to write as if they know about their subject might explain his distasteful vitriol aimed at New Jersey’s Bon Jovi.”

And so it goes on.

A scathing rebuke to Irish Times journalist Jim Carroll, after he predicted Bon Jovi’s Slane appearance would be ‘the yawn gig of 2013‘.

By Glenn Osrin: “a journalist writing globally on such topics as Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and veganism”.

Because They Can: (Glenn Osrin, Examiner.com)

Previously: Sad In Slane

Tonight at 8pm in the Twisted Pepper.(Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1).

Doors open at 7.30pm, bantering starts at 8pm.

BUT you need to sign up to the invite list here.

Banter will look at the people on the showbiz desk and those who feature week in and week out in those pages. Who decides who gets covered and why? What do readers get from this? Are readers just a nosey bunch living vicariously through all this coverage of parties and launches or does it say something more about our psyches? And what exactly are the politics of showbiz?

Our showbiz panel: Rosanna Davison (former Miss World, model and columnist), Eoin Murphy (Entertainment Editor, Irish Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday) and Niamh Horan (The Sunday Independent).

YIKES!

The Politics Of Showbiz (Banter)

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