With much internet snickering about Paula Broadwell, her affair with General David Petraeus and the suggestive title of Broadwell’s Petraeus biography ‘All In’, the researchers of an ABC news station accidentally this week ran the story with a hastily Googled graphic of a Photoshopped cover of the book.

KMGH-TV producer Deb Stanley told Raw Story that the wrong book cover had been “mistakenly picked up off the Internet” and aired during their 5 p.m. broadcast on Monday. Instead of displaying the actual book cover of Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus biography, “All In,” KMGH-TV aired the parody cover, “All Up In My Snatch.”

Awkward.

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Above: John McCarthy, Principal Officer of Economic Division at the Department of Finance at yesterday’s technical briefing on the Medium Term Fiscal Statement.

There will be no extra austerity beyond the €3.5 billion already planned for next month’s budget despite a substantial downgrad in the Government’s growth outlook.

In its Medium-Term Fiscal Statement, released by the Department of Finance yesterday, the Government said “all options” were being considered for the budget, including social welfare cuts, a broadening of PRSI and a reduction in the public sector pay bill.

For 2013, the Department of Finance has downgraded its gross domestic product growth forecast by 0.75 of a percentage point to 1.5 per cent, reflecting both sluggish domestic spending and a worrying international economic backdrop.

So, just the social welfare cuts, increased PRSI and public sector pay cuts then.

*Yay*

Budget to bring no further austerity beyond €3.5bn already signalled (Una McCaffrey, Stephen Collins, Simon Carswell, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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Protestors earlier this evening outside Leinster House, Kildare Street demanding legislation on the X case ruling  in the wake of the death of Savita Halappanavar

Earlier: What You Can Do

Pics James Buckley, Laura Hutton (Photocall Ireland) and Karl.

Meanwhile…

Via Helen Clifford

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It’s all fun and games until someone gets a job.

Squee graduation at Griffith Business College, Dublin, this afternoon. From top: Clare Leggett and son Tomas Mac Diarmada; from left: Xinui Ji, JiaJing Ma and Xinyuan Zhang; David Huelshorst (on bench) and Koch Melin; Zena Adaji (left), from Nigeria and Aigerim Zatildayeva from Kazakhstan.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

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