Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th April 2013 by eamonncork
Michael D always makes me think of Michael MacLiammoir playing Michael Foot.
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In addition to the money he’s raking in from the Senate, Burke has a legal practice in Cork city. His wife is a Hospital Consultant. This man knows struggle and hardship.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th April 2013 by Jim Monaghan
No one mentions the oil bonus which she squandered
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That’s a perfect analysis of the famous ‘austerity works’ paper which turns out to have been based on an Excel coding error and selective data....
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One of The Green Partys 3 Councillors Brian Meaney has left the party and intends to join Fianna Fail. http://www.clareherald.com/2013/04/meaney-seeks-to-join-fianna-fail-party.html#.UW__aNsK4Ew.twitter
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‘BANK of Ireland chief executive Richie Boucher’s pay package has risen to just over €840,000… Joe Walsh, the veteran Fianna Fail politician had his director’s fees increased by 14pc to €90,000 last...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th April 2013 by Dr. X
Probably it’s not done with that level of conscious malice aforethought (though who knows), but that’ll be the end result, aye.
View ArticleComment on All Dressed Up & Going Nowhere by Ramzi Nohra
very interesting. I grew up in the north east in the 70s/80s and can remember these sorts of dudes well. “Aggro boys” was a popular suffix, but my favourite name was the “Shiremoor Republican Army” or...
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …. Number 28 by CMK
8. Mark Deary and Malcolm Noonan?
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …. Number 28 by irishelectionliterature
Its former councillors as opposed to present ones (although I’m not sure if Deary is still a councillor as he had a spell in the Seanad).
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …. Number 28 by CMK
Struggling with reading comprehension today!
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Black Sabbath have released a new single…..
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 17th April 2013 by CMK
I think malice aforethought is present there but we’ll see if these proposals actually fly.
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He was also quite proud of having written a Dashell Hammet based track. I think the reason I like him so much more than Clapton and the like is the lack of pretension: he loved blues and he played it,...
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Freebird is in the Secret Bookshop on Wicklow Street.
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Yep, he was really relaxed and it’s an overused word but genuine. Oh, Clapton. What a train wreck he is. I can’t listen to his stuff because of it.
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