Chairman of the Armenian community of Slovakia Ashot Grigoryan said that on Monday, October 11, he was visited by representatives of the Slovak Football Federation, who possessed some information about the Armenia-Ireland UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier scheduled for the next day.

According to Grigoryan, there was a suspicion that Spanish referee Iturralde Gonzalez was instructed to favor Ireland in the match and help them to play-offs, as the UEFA had to compensate Ireland’s defeat in Paris in 2009, when France striker Thierry Henry, as he admitted later, had intentionally handled the ball to set up William Gallas’s decisive goal against Ireland.

Iturralde Gonzalez was instructed to favor Ireland in match v Armenia? (Panarmenian)

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This is our five month old cat Oskar. He was born with no formed eyeballs and hence he cannot see at all! His blindness does not hold him back at all — he can do pretty much everything that our “normal” cat Klaus can do.

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Financial Regulator Matthew Elderfield has told banks to stop increasing standard variable rates on mortgages.

In a meeting with the chief executives of the banks, he is understood to have told them that if they do not comply they will face imposed restrictions on their ability to increase rates. The demands came earlier this week when Mr Elderfield held talks with the top six mortgage lenders.

The negotiations were with the CEOs of AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS, Permanent TSB, Ulster Bank and KBC. It is understood the Regulator is concerned that rising costs for those on standard variable rates is adding to the problem of mortgage arrears.

Banks told to stop raising mortgage rates (RTE News)

Sweet Play is a concept by French designer Elsa Lambinet who recently graduated from the ECAL University of Art and Design with a Masters in Advanced Studies in Luxury. Now that’s a degree.

The idea behind sweet play is pretty straightforward. A modular design allows for three types of chocolate that can support two added ingredients: black chocolate has a hole to contain fruit, milk chocolate has spaces for nuts, and white chocolate is surfaced to hold liquids, and all three contain a hallowed compartment for inserted flavored wafers, perhaps nougat or carmel. Participants get to mix and match ingredients for hours and hours as they gorge themselves on custom confectionery goodness.

She’s currently seeking an investor to help make the concept commercial.

Elsa, if we had any money to spare we’d be rNOMNOMNOMNOM

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