Bottom line?

When you browse the web on your O2 mobile, they send your mobile number to every site you visit.

No, really.

From Lewis Peckover (possibly not his real name):

@lewispeckover

IRISH UPDATE:

From the O2 Press Office

There are speculative stories about O2 in the UK, and the transmission of customers’ numbers while they are browsing the internet. This issue does not affect O2’s customers in Ireland. We do not transmit customers’ numbers when they are using our internet services. Our service is completely independent of the UK’s.

BBrian writes:

I wasn’t home when a packet was being delivered. I live just off Dame Street [Dublin], so figured I’d just stroll into St. Andrew’s Street post office, which I can see from my living room. Turns out it was returned to Blanchardstown and they charged me €3 to get it redelivered. I went to anpost.ie and clicked on the Contact Us link to get this:

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“If the Taoiseach’s Government knew Ango Irish Bank was insolvent and he asked the Irish taxpayer to bail it out and to pay the cost we are now paying for it, that was and is economic treason. I stand over that.”

Eamon Gilmore speaking in the Dail in January 2011

From NamaWineLake:

Unfortunately Eamon Gilmore’s position has shifted over the past 12 months. What was “treason” in January 2011 – Eamon accused Brian Cowen of what “was and is economic treason” – has undergone a 180-degree about-turn and is now the preferred and adopted position of the Government in which Eamon’s party is a vital coalition partner, in which Eamon is Tanaiste (deputy prime minister) and which has a grandly-titled “Economic Management Council” consisting of Eamon, Minister Noonan, Minister Howlin and An Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

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Bailing out Anglo Is Economic Treason Says An Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore (NamaWineLake)

Broadsheet.ie