In June, Enda Kenny told the Dáil there was “no file” in his department relating to the 2008 decision to guarantee the banks to the tune of €440bn.

But a Freedom of Information request submitted by Fianna Fáil shows there are at least 17 files in Mr Kenny’s department about the bank guarantee dated Sept 30, 2008.

The files in the Department of Taoiseach are listed as notes on the decision sought in the meeting, the government decision of the meeting, minutes of the government meeting, notes for the then taoiseach’s use, and memos for government and other documents.

Kenny ‘Misled’ Dáil On Bank Guarantee Files (Juno McEnroe, Irish Examiner)

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Rewriting History

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What you may need to know:

1. Citadel is a new Irish horror movie. It was filmed in Glasgow. Interesting review here.

2. It’s produced by Blinder Films. They’ve done everything from David McSavage’s The Savage Eye to Tom Hall‘s Sensation (2010), which you should definitely catch up with one of these days.

3. The cast includes veteran Scots actor James Cosmo, who’s been in Game Of Thrones and those Irish episodes of Sons Of Anarchy of late. He played Renton’s Dad in Trainspotting (1996) and was in Scottish soap opera, Take The High Road.

4. It’s been winning prizes all over the shop.

5. From Silence (2012) to Grabbers (2012), 2012 has been a decent year for Irish film thus far. Now all people have to do is go and see them.

Release Date (Ireland): TBC (US: October 19)

Four villas currently under construction, fully equipped with electricity and water, at the Jiutian International Plaza – a shopping mall in Zhuzhao, China.

The images have been circulating online to much speculation regarding the legality, habitability and sale price of the development

Apparently, it’s an actual thing.

Rooftop villas are legal, officials say (China Daily)

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(Thanks Aaron McAllorum)


If you can handle the appalling camerawork up to about 1.10, there’s an adorable payoff as a bunch of excitable Australian canoeists are boarded by the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae.

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