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1. #BUDGET 2017: It’s the main story being covered this morning. Some people are happy with the measures announced yesterday, but groups representing people with disabilities are among those who have been critical. They say the Budget falls far short of what’s needed to address the problems being faced by their members.
2. #BUDGET 2017: Here’s our analysis of what has been dubbed the ‘fiver Friday Budget‘, with something for everyone – or most people.
3. #BUDGET 2017: TD Paul Murphy isn’t impressed, saying it’s “another regressive budget that will re-enforce inequality” and is particularly unfair on unemployed young people.
4. #BUDGET 2017: The 50 cent increase on a packet of cigarettes kicked in at midnight, but here are when the other measures are coming into effect.
5. #GARDA WHISTLEBLOWERS: After recent revelations and criticisms about An Garda Síochána, Commissioner Níóirín O’Sullivan will be questioned by the Oireachtas Justice Committee today.
6. #COURTS: A 45-year-old man caught with 25 videos and 80 photos of child sex abuse was given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.
7. #TRUMP: The White House has said President Barack Obama found the tape of Donald Trump talking about kissing and groping women “repugnant” and said it “constituted sexual assault“.
8. #CAR INSURANCE: An allegedly fraudulent car crash, said to closely fit a pattern of six suspicious accidents that could cost up to €500,000 in damages and costs, was thrown out by a judge yesterday at the request of Zurich Insurance.
9. #LEAVING CERT: The State Examinations Commission will this morning release details of the results of all appeals made regarding this year’s Leaving Certificate.
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I’m counting at least three UFOs in the picture…
They’re here… and not a moment too soon…
If you have identified them are they still technicaly ufos
I only spotted them, still don’t know what they are; ergo UFOs…
I can only see two ufos and a smudge
I’m certain the smudge is swamp gas tho
Up above the streets and houses
Rainbow flying high
Everyone can see it smiling — over the sky.
Thanks Jazz, now the rainbow theme tune is stuck in my head. Paint the whole world with a RAINBOW
Sorry Bungle.
Quick get the pot of gold
Looks like it’s coming from Berties house.
Some great views from the Ulster bank building all the same.
Buildings
Go jump off one ;)
Keaneland. Thats the custom house building. Not the 4 courts.
Anyone know why some rainbows appear flattened? Is it to do with the shape of the raindrops?
Nice symbolic image for litigious Ireland, there is always a croc of gold to be found in the courts.
Rainbow coming from Berties house.
First I thought u were talking about the big UFO shaped cloud on the left but then saw the 3 shapes, is it just a blurry pic?
Yes, it really is magical. So magical that even though it was taken on May 23, 2015 (the day the result of Ireland’s Marriage Equality Referendum was announced), not only did it travel all round the world to places as far away as America, where it was seen as proof that Nature and/or ‘god’ approved of the result (see here at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/23/1387196/-Best-photo-on-the-Internets-today ), but it somehow also got magically teleported by Time Machine all the way back to The Journal in October 2013. Strange and mysterious indeed are the ways of The Great Joker in the Sky :)
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