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WHAT’S THE STORY?
1. THANKS, Intel: The tech giant which set up in Ireland 25 years ago (the pic is from their Leixlip plant in 2004) has announced it is make the biggest single private investment in the history of the State. The €3.5 billion injection will also see the creation of 5,000 construction jobs.
2. THE CEO of St Vincent’s Hospital Group, Nicholas Jermyn, has stepped down as chairman of the public hospital. He appeared in front of the Public Accounts Committee in January – his overall package from Vincent’s had been €292,000 a year with €136,000 coming from public funds.
3. DOBBO and “the idiots”: The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has rejected seven complaints about this incident involving commentary from the RTE Six One anchorman on 27 November last:
4. HELLO, we’re listening. These are the Garda stations around the country which got new equipment to record telephone calls in 2008:
5. WE need to talk about sausage rolls. Dunnes brand sausage rolls are the latest to be found to contain potentially allergy-causing sulphur dioxide. Aldi had to withdraw Kelly’s sausage rolls yesterday.
Images: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland; Brian Lawless/PA Wire; Garda Siochana; Youtube; sausage rolls/Shutterstock
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There is an adjoining report that Harris states that ‘you can’t pitch a tent anywhere you want’.
I have a question: when these tents are distributed, are those they are given to told where they can be pitched?
I have another: is there anywhere where they can be pitched that is acceptable to the government?
And who is paying for these tents anyway?
The government, via ‘charities’, on behalf of the taxpayer?
The government, which then destroys those tents within hours of distributing them?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: they are pitched up in Milltown now making camp.
@Sean Money: @Sean Money: Do you know if there is anywhere these can be pitched that is acceptable to the authorities?
If not, then why are these being distributed?
Are our government departments really *that* disfunctional?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: exactly they are in cahoots with the tent makers, millions spent on tents now
See this ffg governments will never and I mean never stop pollution of everything for profit ,
@Robert Halvey: Bet they sell the fish too!!
Slurry, I suppose. Farmers, I suppose.
The reason it was only reported yesterday is because nobody works the weekend
I don’t see pike on the list. Probably being killed off by the angling clubs. They kill pike all over Ireland seemingly with the blessing of the IFI. Taking out the predators leaves weak and sick fish to spawn. In turn making the fish sizes smaller in the rivers. You don’t take a predator out of a habitat
@Michael o Dwyer: it’s not the clubs killing them off, it’s the international fishing folk who clean out the rivers and lakes of every fish they get their hands on, no matter the size . They are a plague
@Michael o Dwyer: It’s more likely that it’s just a narrower river that doesnt contain pike. Of which there are many around the country
Pharmaceutical waste !
@sakk sa: irish water chemical leak at the water plant, either chlorine or fluoride
Hopefully the carcasses can be salvaged for food or even pet animal feed.
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