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in the news
May. 18th, 2005 09:25 pm- a story about Dublin airport, featuring some archive footage of the overhead sign in the Departure lounge (the one which reads, "Departures"). Visible at the bottom of the sign is an interdiction on photography and videotaping in the area.
- from the same story, the opposition parties speak out: "if the national airline is privatised, it may be taken over by [people] outside the country and we don’t know what will happen in the future". Apparently privatisation of public resources reduces our inherent clairvoyance somehow.
- Our Minister for Deporting People Who He Believes Deserve It said, and I quote, "Unfortunately, the UN Declaration on Human Rights requires me to go through due process." Good to know that the man charged with keeping a handle on our legal system has a dim view of due process.
- Brouhaha in the Dáil over someone making a comment about kebabs; it is unclear even within context whether the TD in question was using the word as a (new, previously unencountered by me) slang reference to Turkish citizens, or if he was attempting to make a joke while his brain was disengaged. Said TD has some sort of involvement with, um, Foreign Development.
- Badly worded piece on consumer rights: "80% of people want something to be done [about consumer gouging]. The newly-created [consumer rights] agency wants to change that." To be honest, I’m not wholly convinced that "rip-off Ireland", as it’s so often referred to in the tabloids, is anything more than our own damned fault for being so complacent in the face of rabid (and rapid) price increases.
- Tra la la, the Peace Process is Being Rebuilt again. It’s had more reconstructive surgery than your average Hollywood Has-Been.
- Ireland’s entrants for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest are apparently media darlings after two of them fell through a table at a press conference. Seriously. Also, one of the group said, "We have the best song. But I don’t want to get too cocky."
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