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“NOT EVERYBODY GETS it, Hugh, but most people will.”
That was Eddie Hobbs’s response to TheJournal.ie political editor Hugh O’Connell’s query on how the branding and name for Ireland’s newest political party, Renua Ireland, emerged.
According to Eddie, ”the left brain people” volunteering for the group “spent a lot of time sitting in on regional meetings” and listening to figure out a most appropriate name.
He added:
It wasn’t created by a cabal of people on the back of an envelope.
And definitely not on a whiteboard back at the office…
(h/t Michelle Hennessy)
Have you any better ideas for what the new party could have been called? Do let us know in the comments section below>
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How many of these incidents led to prosecutions?
@Alan O Donoghue: profound comment!
@Benny: isn’t the 25c per fine for each overdue book not enough?;-)
@Benny: I’d say as you guess very few
Headline should read “Confirmed: Dublin is a kip full of pr1cks”
Suspended sentence
@Tom Nolan: cheers judge….
Anyone that attacks members of the emergency services should get an automatic 10 year jail sentence, no plea bargaining or sob stories should be entertained.
Attacked by the ones getting a free ride through life provided by the council I bet.
Gimme that bleedin boook
God damn librarians.
I would suggest that SOME (definitely not all) of these “victims” version of assault would be somewhat questionable. On a similar vain to the personal injury claims we hear about day in day out.
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