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“Politics and politicians must lead by example and must lead the change. We deserve better and we have a right as a people to be angry with the circumstances we face in this country today.”
A pre-election Colm Keaveney TD, Labour Party Chariman.
The Irish Daily Mail this morning (not available online) reports that Mr Keaveney has hired his wife Deirdre as his parliamentary assistant (52k per annum) against Labour Party guidelines and without advertising the job.
Conspiracy theorists may question the story’s timing given Keaveney’s remarks about a snap election earlier this month.
Thanks Lars Biscuits
(Pic: Galway Advertiser)
Kieran writes:
I don’t know if you’ve been made aware yet but Twitter has opened itself up for translation into Irish, just like the system FB used about 2-3 years ago. It’d be a fantastic help if you could post it. Is mise le meas.
Mitt Roaming
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You’ll glove this.
Hi-Fun’s gloves are Bluetooth headsets — or, well, handsets — with the speaker built into the thumb and the mic in the pinky, so you can talk by doing the traditional “call me” hand gesture….Hi-Call will be out in the beginning of October, just in time for the cold weather. It’ll run you a not particularly cheap €49 for the pleasure of speaking into your pinky
Hi-Fun’s Call-Receiving Bluetooth Gloves, Hands-In (Endgadget)
Thanks Alan Daly
The unhinged animated video for the equally unhinged bloopy stylings of Putty Boy Strut by Flying Lotus, created by illustrator Sarah Brown and the great Cyriak Harris.
The album, Until the Quiet Comes, featuring Erykah Badu, Laura Darlington, Niki Randa, Thundercat, Thom Yorke and others, is available to pre-order.
Biografias VI by Spanish artist Alicia Martin: a waterfall of books pouring down from a second floor window of the Museum Mermanno in The Hague.
It’s on display until November 25th as part of the 2012 International Paper Biennial.
Such Is Life
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A timelapse of Tibetan Buddhist monks placing millions of individual grains of coloured sand to create a sacred mandala over the course of several days.
It’s a metaphor for everything.
TWO LOCATIONS in Minister for Health James Reilly’s north Dublin constituency were added to a list of places chosen for primary care centres after the final list drawn up by the HSE was passed to his department, The Irish Times has learned.
Swords and Balbriggan were among five locations added to the priority list for building new primary care centres announced by the Minister last July. Neither featured in lists of the top 30 locations which the HSE recommended should receive priority in the development of new centres by public-private partnerships, documents obtained under freedom of information show.
The decision to change the list was challenged by Minister of State for Primary Care Róisín Shortall, who told Dr Reilly she found it “hard to understand”.
Have you been in politics long, Róisín?
Two sites in Reilly’s constituency added to primary care centre list (Paul Cullen/Martin Wall, Irish Times)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
