The High Court has ruled Priory Hall developer Tom McFeely has breached an order directing him to fireproof the complex.
Dublin City Council wants another contractor to replace Mr McFeely and his company Coalport on the job.
Internal fire safety works have been carried out on 40 apartments in the last two weeks but Dublin City Council says no progress has been made on the bigger job on the external walls.
Dignitaries say ‘thank you’ to President Mary McAleese following a meeting of the Council of State this afternoon at Aras an Uachtarain. From top: Mary Robinson, Albert Reynolds, John Hume, Bertie Ahern, Mary O’Rourke and Brian Cowen with Martin McAleese.
OK. Who took the spoons?
The internets justify their existence yet again.
The notorious PIT manoeuvre (strategically bumping the rear wing of a car to force it off the road) is an emergency police pursuit tactic you’ve probably seen on a dozen cop-chase shows.
But what happens when the car is a smuggler’s plane filled with stolen electronics and the road is a runway?
Over to you, insane John McClane channelling Brazilian Feds.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCyy90bJXdM&feature=player_embedded#!
Brett Berk for Vanity Fair writes that the introduction of Derry-native Damian McGinty, who was the co-champion of ‘The Glee Project,’ allowed for writers on ‘Glee’ to “pound us on the nose with every winkingly ironic stereotype they can conjure.” Included, of course, for Rory are an abundance of green clothes, and rendition of the greenest of them all Kermit the Frog’s “Being Green.” References to U2 and Lucky Charms added to the piling of Irish associations.
Other sources are sounding off as well. Jen Cheney of the Washington Post notes how the concept of McGinty singing “Being Green” was a little “forced.” She adds, “Would any young Irishman…allow himself to be consistently referred to as a leprechaun?”
‘Freedom flotilla’ or ‘provocation vessels’?
You decide.
Brooklyn designer Matthew Borgatti’s ‘Guy Fawkes’ bandana (complete with Anonymous-esque motto) for 99%ers everywhere. Available to buy for a slightly 1%ish $16.50 on Etsy.
Or you could just go old school for $9.99.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evOfWDpz8j4
Yes, it’s a cloud that’s obscuring ireland.
From Nasa:
This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. At the beginning of the video, the Aurora Borealis can be seen in the far left along with clouds over the North Atlantic Ocean. Tracking southeast, the first view of lights is from the United Kingdom (Ireland, uptrack from the UK, is under cloud), with cities like Liverpool and London showing up nicely. Across the English Channel, the cities of Brussels and Rotterdam (left) and Paris (brightly-lit city west of Brussels) all stand out through a network of smaller cities in Western Europe.
Then you have the Mediterranean Sea, with Greece (ha!) to the left, northern Africa on the right, and the island of Crete and finally finishing near the Nile River Delta and the Red Sea.
But, you know, whatever.
