By illustrator Peter de Sève.
“Snapped this in my local last month.” (Andrew Moore)
The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like Ireland: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
The King Of Legoland directed by Micaël Reynaud with music by Hunting Charlie’s Band(e).
Nostalgia overload.
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Arriving at the Global Irish Economic Forum this morning at Dublin Castle.
Why?
(RTE)
“I’m here to listen and learn. My own clients aside, we travel the world and know how many smart Irish people there are scattered around, I’m sure they can be motivated to help with what needs to be done here in many different ways.”
Paul McGuinness, U2 manager, Irish Times
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
“Saw this cloud out the window of our apartment in Manhattan, NYC.” (Joe and Tina Buggy)
The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like Ireland to: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Her sister Susan Stein gave evidence in 2008 that she discussed her sister’s citizenship with Dana’s husband, Damien Scallon, and Dana’s brother and adviser in her current presidential campaign, John Brown, during the presidential contest in 1997.
“When she ran for the presidential election in Ireland, John and Damien and I had a meeting,” Ms Stein told the US court. “She had just acquired her American citizenship, at the same time she was running for president of a foreign country, and the decision was made that it wouldn’t look very good if the people of Ireland knew she was an American citizen.”
Ms Scallon said yesterday her husband and her brother could not remember the conversation. She had not sought to keep her US citizenship secret. “Why would I? Wasn’t de Valera ?”
Dana Became US Citizen Before 1997 Election Bid (Colm Keena, Irish Times)
Dana 1997 leaflet via Irish Election Literature
“One of the attendees, Peter Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, a company investigated for fraud (it denied the accusations), tells Irish citizens we must suffer more austerity (in addition to the €64 billion burden of recapitalising the banks) to save the European Union.
Denis O’Brien, a former deputy governor of Bank of Ireland, and Dermot Desmond, a businessman, are also due to attend.
Neither man is resident in Ireland for tax purposes and both have been criticised in state inquiry reports over their business dealings. Paul McGuinness, another attendee, manages U2, a band of corporate tax refugees.
How many of those invited to the forum would even understand the public anger at AIB’s attempt to have the €500,000 salary cap lifted for its incoming chief executive? During the election campaign,
Enda Kenny waxed incessantly about entering into a covenant with the people to make Ireland fair. At the forum next weekend, delegates will discuss the banking crisis and how to avoid the mistakes of the past. The mere composition of the forum makes it clear that we are already repeating our mistakes. Here we go again, settling for an economy at the expense of society.”
Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times (behind paywall)
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Enda Kenny and Goldman Sachs’ Peter Sutherland.
Denis O’Brien.
Paul McGuinness.
Michael Martin.
Joan Burton.
Same old.
Same old.
Live: Global Irish Economic Forum (RTE)