Fine Gael councillor Anne Devitt.

The Mahon Tribunal found an acceptance of a IR£20,000 payment from Rayband Ltd, by Cllr Devitt was “entirely inappropriate”.

From the Fingal Independent in 2009:

Why should people vote for you?

Cllr Devitt: “This is the question that people always ask on the doorstep. I think the experience I have is necessary to bring us out of this economic trouble.”

 

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

The footballer who wanted to make a difference to young people is still doing it, half a world away. His smiling face, with the date of his birth and death, is now on a wall beside the security pad in the entrance hall that all the students swipe into every day.

Mr Balfe, who taught [Jim] Stynes geography and coached him on the senior rugby team, said: “He was a tall, thin man and he didn’t have the bullish strength for rugby. His two brothers were better rugby players because they had more power. He was better at Aussie Rules.

 

(Crispin Rodwell for The Age)
Thanks Kevin Whitty


Spectacular footage from a new special edition of the NASA documentary Ascent: Commemorating Shuttle.

Your hosts: two cameras strapped to the side of the booster rockets on Atlantis and Endeavour as they accelerate to over 4,800kph, re-enter the atmosphere from 66km up and hurtle back down to the ocean.

You may or may not be moved to say ‘Wheeeee!’

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