Teachers, pupils, parents and a human Kit-Kat outside the Department of Education this afternoon protesting against staffing cuts at schools in disadvantaged areas.
Parents To Fight Deis Cuts (Christine Allen, Cork Independent)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAf7J4a_T1g&feature=player_embedded
“Could you explain why the Irish people are inflicted with this burden?”
Klaus Masuch (top) from the European Central Bank enjoys a demonstration of haranguing from Vincent Browne at the troika (ECB/IMF/EU) press conference this afternoon in government buildings.
Donal writes:
Look what you get for one euro more a month than Netflix. For people who like a bit more choice of decent movies.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I
Pat Timlin writes:
Have to say, have been a bit baffled about the content of these proposed Bills, and I’d say a lot of your readers are too, or at least don’t understand the consequences even for us Irish people. Found this TED talk (by Clay Shirky)
which encapsulates it pretty well:
“The ‘buke’ as he pronounced it would never come out and so he sat there with his head in hands and I said to him: ‘Would you like me to publish Ulysses?’ And he said, ‘I would’. He seemed very much relieved.”
The frankly remarkable Sylvia Beach, of Shakespeare & Co, on RTE’s ‘Self Portrait’ (unearthed for the stations’s 50th anniversary) from 1962.
Watch here
New single: We Take Care Of Our Own.
Contains lyrical ambiguity, cowboy boots.
Outside Aviva HQ on Upper Hatch Street literally minutes ago.
How insufferable?
Oh, about two-thirds.
Ireland’s economy will grow at about a third of the pace forecast by the government, the country’s bailout partners said, as export growth slows.
Gross domestic product will expand 0.5 percent this year, representatives of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission said today in Dublin. The troika in October forecast 1 percent growth, below the government’s 1.3 percent prediction.
“Ireland continues to face considerable challenges,” they said in a statement confirming the government had met its bailout targets in the fourth quarter. “Domestic demand remains subdued, unemployment high and trading partner growth is slowing.”
Irish Economy To Miss Government Growth Forecast, Troika Say (Bloomberg)
