From Today’s Metro Herald.

Thanks Rory McGuigan

Kevin Cardiff, the Government’s nomination to the European Court of Auditors, is up before the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament later this afternoon. He will know today if he has got the job.

What is it about this guy? His critics are told to shut up. His costly mistakes are forgotten. His inept handling of blunders are swept aside. His department’s attempts at cover-ups and his self-satisfied demeanour seem to make no difference whatsoever.

The Taoiseach spoke by phone to the leader of the centre right grouping in the parliament, the European People’s Party, while Mr Gilmore is understood to have spoken to the head of the Party of European Socialists.

It is also understood that Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton held talks in Strasbourg last week with Ingeborg Grassle, the German head of the EPP delegation on the committee.

You would almost think he posseses some information that could embarrass a lot of people.

Or something.

MEPs Hearing On Cardiff Nomination (RTE)
(Photocall Ireland)

Irish Times Letters

Derby Student Trapped In Clothes Horse Rescued By Firefighters (BBC)

Thanks Rudy

Club Orange ad from 1966.

And they call this progress?

Via Brand New Retro

Trinity College Dublin alum Dominic West – Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty off The Wire –  returned to his alma mater last night (with wife Catherine Fitzgerald) to give a speech to the college’s Philisophical Society and pick up a gold medal of ‘Honorary Patronage’ from the society.

As one  ‘Phil’ member put it:

“Nobody heard a word he said owing to his awesome hotness.”

‘Wire’ Star Pays Tribute To Wife As He Visits Alma Mater (Edel O’Connell, Irish Independent)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)