From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
It was one of those funerals at which you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: laugh at the spectre of grown women trussed up in stiff, white bonnets, like middle-aged Little Bo Peeps? Or cry at the angelic faced toddlers, struggling to hold aloft flags that were [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
There are some meetings at which you would give anything to be a fly on the wall.
There’s the one which took place in Leinster House late on a Monday night in September 2008,when the Minister for Finance agreed to include Anglo Irish Bank in the guarantee being issued to the banks. [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
There can be few places on Earth more spectacular, or more isolated, than Fanore in West Clare. Buffeted between the vast limestone expanse of the Burren on one side and the restless Atlantic on the other, Fanore boasts a shop, a single pub and a post office.
Its surroundings – the beach, [...]
From Newspaper Man: It was revealed that Frank McClintock, the head of the national ambulance service, resigned over expenses irregularities last week. The Health Service Executive forwarded its file on the irregularities to gardai to investigate further. There is still a good deal to emerge on this and I won’t be closing my file on [...]
From Newspaper Man: Just an update to let you know that The Sunday Times will not be appealing the OIC decision to refuse access to the two memos made of the September 2008 meetings between state officials and bankers hours before the government decided to guarantee all bank deposits.Thanks for the half-dozen offers of €50 [...]
From Newspaper Man: Just an update to let you know that The Sunday Times will not be appealing the OIC decision to refuse access to the two memos made of the September 2008 meetings between state officials and bankers hours before the government decided to guarantee all bank deposits.Thanks for the half-dozen offers of €50 [...]
From Newspaper Man: Just an update to let you know that The Sunday Times will not be appealing the OIC decision to refuse access to the two memos made of the September 2008 meetings between state officials and bankers hours before the government decided to guarantee all bank deposits.Thanks for the half-dozen offers of €50 [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell: By Jennifer O’ConnellIt was a fertile week in politics. First, there was the news that Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Conservative party leader, David, is to give birth again in September – a neat piece of timing which offers British voters the enticing prospect of another Downing Street baby. (Cue the Sun [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t feel much like celebrating the feast day of St Patrick last week. I’ve been increasingly dubious of late about the value of the pious Briton’s legacy to this damp little island.
Last week, as I listened to Monsignor Maurice Dooley put [...]
From Jennifer O’Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell
The Icelandic people got a special, pre-Eurovision treat last week.
It came in the form of a motivational video originally made for staff at Landsbanki – the bank behind the Icesave debacle – which was nationalised in the meltdown of 2008.The video debuted on YouTube in recent weeks and [...]
