“…Dr Reilly held a meeting with Phil Hogan in relation to primary care centres, before he added a centre in the Environment Minister’s constituency to a list of where they should be located.”

Ah here.

Tomorrow’s Sunday Independent.

Grafton Street, Dublin.

They don’t normally do this.

Padraig Staunton writes:

Just now, the Dublin Fire Brigade charged through pedestrians on Grafton St. Surely a store is going up in flames? Oh no, someone needs a bike lock removed. Money well spent I’m sure you’ll agree.


Freerunner Jason Paul and  friends were commissioned by Red Bull to construct this building-scale Rube Goldberg machine that combines gravity mechanics with the gravity-defying antics of les traceurs.

highdefinite/boingboing

TWO OF the State’s most ambitious developers, Johnny Ronan and Richard Barrett, will see the end of their globe-spanning company, Treasury Holdings, next week after conceding defeat in litigation taken by one of its banks.

Liquidators are expected to be appointed on Tuesday to the insolvent property business by the High Court after the company said it was no longer resisting an application by KBC Bank to have the company wound up over a debt of about €55 million. The rejection of a last-minute offer by US bank Morgan Stanley to buy the company’s debts from the State’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama), which supported KBC’s action, has led to the imminent failure of the group, sources close to the company said.

One of Nama’s top 10 debtors, Treasury has total debts of €2.7 billion, including more than €1 billion with the State loans agency.

World comes crashing down on Irish developers’ global empire (Simon Carlswell, Mary Carolan, Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/ Photocall Ireland)

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