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De Monday Papers
MORE to folly. Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie Thanks Aran Brazil (Irish Sun); Mick Crowley (Irish Times); Neil Henderson (UK papers)
Voting in Blighty
West Brit In Oxford writes: Could you please inform/remind your readers who are Irish citizens and have moved to the UK that they in fact have full voting rights in the UK, including in the upcoming general election (presuming they have a National Insurance number). I know it surprised me when I arrived on Blighty’s shores to learn as much after mere weeks of residency here. The deadline for registration is 20 April.
Wrap It In Glory For One Irish Rover
Fearlessly outspoken Dublin journalist, broadcaster and critic George Byrne, who died yesterday at 57, is recalled by his friend and fellow Shamrock Rovers obsessive, Buzz O’Neill. I met my friend John ‘George’ Paul Byrne’ or Ringo which he self-styled for himself as it was the only name of the Beatles he wasn’t called (we smelled bullshit, but we let him away with it) on August 10, 1991.
De Good Friday Papers
Everything. As It Happens.
Mercille On Monday
An inevitable thing happened at the banking inquiry. Last week, the Banking Inquiry forced some members of the media to undergo questioning about their poor performance during the housing bubble years. They didn’t enjoy it. The Inquiry’s media deliberations started with myself and [Dublin Institute of Technology journalism lecturer] Harry Browne, who provided a critical look at the media. Then, a string of media individuals were called in to reassure everybody that what we said was garbage.
Butlers Of India
Shiela Larkin tweetz: Spotted in the duty free in New Delhi airport. An Irish gift from India. Made me smile
World O’ Brews | Broadsheet.ie
Everything. As It Happens.
‘Every Irish Person In Britain Knows The Little Nod, The Little Wink’
Further to the alleged racist and violent assault by BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson on his Irish producer. …The queer thing about anti-Irish racism (and its partner, anti-Catholicism), is that a hell of a lot of British people are in denial about its existence (trust me, Irish people are not). It was, certainly, worse during the “Troubles”, but there is a mistaken belief that the Troubles was the sole reason for anti-Irish feeling.
Mercille On Monday
Why is Michael Noonan courting property developers and vulture fund managers? Has he learned nothing? Our Minister of Finance, Michael Noonan, is cosying up again to the same developers and banks who crashed the country. A few days ago he met with them to explore ways of financing new construction. Celtic Tiger developers Johnny Ronan and Michael O’Flynn and others were present at the “low-key”, “behind-closed-doors” meeting in the luxury Marker Hotel in Dublin’s Dockland.
Hands Across The World
Friends, and supporters of undocumented adults and children unveil a Patrick’s Day message banner [by the Migrant Rights Centre] wishing “Happy St. Patrick’s Day to the undocumented in the U.S.A from the undocumented in Ireland” covering four storeys of 37 Dame Street, across the road from the Central Bank, Dublin…
Perspective | Broadsheet.ie
I myself was born in the Fifties – a decade when the economy shrank year after year, the population declined just as remorselessly and landlords took the roofs off empty houses because it was cheaper to do so than pay the rates. I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, decades of further despair and endless emigration. And yet I had a happy childhood, at the end of which I found a job.
‘Who’s The Father?’
Dil Wickremasinghe (with bump) and her partner Anne Marie What could possibly go wrong? I woke up last Sunday morning super-excited because my partner had organised a baby shower with my dearest friends that evening. It was meant to be a happy occasion until I looked at my Twitter feed…. These were between a person I had previously blocked and David Quinn of the Iona Institute, demanding to know who the father of my child was. I was speechless.
What Fresh Madness Is This?
I really hope you can highlight this document on Broadsheet. It was found today in Fresh supermarket in Grand Canal Dock {Dublin] and is about restriction on staff use of their own languages – even among themselves. It starts quite sympathetically – but then gets sharper and sharper towards the end. I think it deserves wide attention so that the many people of foreign descent who spend freely in Fresh every day can make an informed decision about where they take their business.
How Many? | Broadsheet.ie
Reporter Brian O’Connell researched the PR operations – internal and external – of eight state agencies. Including…Irish Water. Mr O’Connell went on RTÉ Radio One’s Today with Sean O’Rourke to bring the details. “Internal communications: 11 people working in Ervia and Irish Water across the full range of of media and communications for Irish Water. Ervia does not disclose salary information for employees.
The Leaflet Of Hate
This Could Be The Last Time
Journalism And The State
Eamonn Farrell and Irish Water protests (above) before Christmas Eamonn Farrell is a former photo-editor of the Sunday Tribune and founder and editor of Photocall Ireland the largest editorial photographic agency in Ireland. He has covered all the major social issues in Ireland from 1980, including the H-Block Riots, Peace Process, Divorce, Contraception and Abortion Campaigns. Recently his agency has extensively covered the Irish Water protests.
Droning The Leadmines
Seamus writes: One of the lads at work messing around with his quadcopter looking at the Ballycorus Leadmines. Fine video, less love for his choice in music.
‘Political Elites Have Lost Track Of Their Citizens’
They speak different languages, they come from different backgrounds, yet all have the same message of frustration that’s threatening to redraw the European political map over the next year. Starting with elections this Sunday in Greece and heading west to Ireland via Britain and Spain, polls show Europeans will vent their anger over issues from widening income disparities and record unemployment to unprecedented immigration.
A Non Designated Smoking Area
Everything. As It Happens.
Some Flutes | Broadsheet.ie
Everything. As It Happens.
Credit Where Credit’s Due
Earlier today I stopped in Rathmines to pick something up on the way to visit my dad who’s in hospital. Whilst there, a couple arrived at my house to hand in my credit union book and a very large sum of money I had withdrawn earlier that day. They had picked it up off the street and chased some of the notes that the wind had taken and promptly came to my home to get it back. I was blissfully unaware of this till my wife called and told me what had happened.
Purple Haze | Broadsheet.ie
Sure Where Would You Get It? Sure Where Would You Get It? Sure Where Would You Get It?
Decent Garda Watch
Lots of the same bullsh!t talk again going on here Whinge whine Unemployed, Whinge whine Sinn Fein, Whinge Whine you’re gonna have to pay… Would you f**kin broken recrods give the f**k over for a second and stay on topic. And on topic…. Garda’s a legend. Dealing with these guys perfectly. Respectful of the right to protest so long as they are making a protest. Even helps them out by telling them how to do it without breaking the law. Showing how they can be an obstruction without causing obstruction.
Bailout Park | Broadsheet.ie
Hypotopia – a model city installed in the centre of Vienna by team of students from the Technical University designed to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion the government is currently paying to bail out the Hypo Alpe Adria bank. Having done the requisite calculations, they imagined it as a home for 102,574 residents- Austria’s sixth largest city , complete with shops, power plants, and garbage disposal facilities.
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