UPDATES: 09:05 15 Jan – News coming in that the figures quoted by Donal and the media are lower by €15k than the actual cost of junkets. 10:00 KFM radio crediting the Leinster Leader as the original source, not Donal Corcoran. 10:35 Update from Donal in comments here. 12:55 Full tabulated figures on Donal’s blog [...]
More cash-strapped families than ever are turning to the government for financial assistance to cover the cost of the rite read the strapline to an article entitled Parents seek state alms for communion in today’s Sunday Times. More than 8,000 families have claimed €2.27m in emergency-needs payments this year — an average of €284 — [...]
You looking for the full text too? Thought so. I can’t find it either. Fine Gael obviously don’t consider it worthy of a spot on their website. While we are waiting for the Fine Gael web-heads to get their act together, here is the gist of it: Mr. Kenny pledged last night to restore Ireland [...]
In the shop Me wallet’s as empty as me grandfather’s grave. Good fek! Don’t say grave robbers! No. He’s not dead. In a neighbour’s kitchen I wrote on it with an indisputable marker by accident. You mean indelible marker. Yeah. But if you can’t rub it out it’s indisputable too. Right? When the starter at [...]
I watched live streams from the 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis yesterday. I read the speeches this morning. They gave me little in the way of joy or hope. They bored me much of the time. They did anger me in parts. When I laughed, it was in amazement at how the delegates are totally [...]
Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, loves making press releases. Last week she considered making two lousy PDF files available for download worthy of a press release. On Monday, she said the current economic situation was putting “new stresses on family life” and duly allotted €7.8 million to counselling services. Who gets the [...]
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