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OK.

Apart from all that?

Diaspora, Directed by Barbara Deignan and Cian McDevitt.

The new Irish settle in Toronto.

They don’t miss us at all, you know.

Music by Valery Gore

Diaspora (Facebook)

Thanks Simon Judge

Peter Mathews TD (FG).

Softly-spoken number cruncher by day.

Ninja backbencher by night.

Government Defeated In Oireachtas Finance Committee Vote (David Cochrane, Politics.ie)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Sisters of missing Achill man James Grealis, from left, Caroline O’Connell, Helen Grealis and Bernadette Spinalley. James disappeared after leaving a guesthouse in  the Dutch town of Breda to look for work on October 23, 2008. The Grealis sisters handed in a letter to Ambassador Robert Engels at the Netherlands embassy, Merrion Road, Dublin, telling him that they are not satisfied with the progress of the investigation thus far.

Protest Over Missing irishman, Kitty Holland, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

On that sentence.

From Rev David Syms, of ‘Six Principles’ Baptist Church, Baltimore, Co Cork.

“…We then see Paul Begley [Garlic importation tax evader] being sent to prison for a tax offence while paying back the money, leaving a wife and children to be alone for six years while he serves his outrageous sentence .

…I made a commitment to go on hunger strike from next Tuesday in protest against the injustice of sentencing in this country. I only hope that being a person who is not very strong willed I can do this for a reasonable length of time. I hope my faith can get me through.”

 

Irish Times letters

The four-minute video, in which the semi-naked Limerickman is clearly identifiable, shows him romping on a pool-table and engaging in explicit acts with the stripper in a side-room of the bar….

“…It is believed the sex worker is of East European origin, according to other sources close to the bar”

Pornographic ‘Sex Show’ In Limerick Pub (Anne Sheridan, Limerick Leader)

Thanks Niall O’M

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