The apology is now in text form on the RTE website (screen cap here) – still no sign of the film package going back up. RTE think it’s all over. But there is art, countless photoshops, poems, t-shirts to purchase (Proceeds to Rape Crisis Network), international reactions, analysis of online coverage, complaint letters, and so [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Garda Síochána·Government Press Office·Radio Telefís Éireann·Today FM
Ray Darcy is talking about it on his show this morning. The show had contact with the painter of the Cowen pictures and the Gardai want to know who he was. I don’t think Todayfm staff told any telltales. Cowengate is well and truly underway. Who complained to the Gardai about this incident and wanted [...]
Tags:#cowengate·Brian Cowen·Painting·picturegate·Visual Arts
It’s now a constant occupation of Government Press Officers to stop any criticism of Brian Cowen or his government. This includes reporting on the hanging of paintings in galleries or on their potential value or how they got to be hung in the galleries in the first place. Tonight RTE apologised for offence caused to [...]
Tags:Arts Council·Banana Republic·Brian Cowen·picturegate·Prime Time·Questions and Answers·Radio Telefís Éireann·Taoiseach
(See updates at end of post for latest on this saga..) The nude pictures of Brian Cowen which appeared in the National Gallery over the weekend have been widely covered online. (Yes I know I can hear you groaning.) From RTE Website ‘Mr Cowen’s Closeup – The painting, though well-hung, was quickly taken down’ Last [...]
Tags:Arts and Entertainment·Brian Cowen·Ireland·National Gallery·Nob Nation·Radio Telefís Éireann·Taoiseach
Déirdre De Búrca a name too hard for a url? Instead we get WhatIStandfor.ie for the Green’s Candidate for the Dublin Constituency in the European Parliament Elections. We also get an interesting spelling of thousands according to this picture of Senator De Búrca’s billboard in today’s Irish Times. Senator De Búrca launched her campaign yesterday [...]
Across the EU this weekend groups of citizens are debating the question ‘What do you think the EU can – and should – do to shape our economic and social future in a globalised world?’ In Dublin Castle 50 independently selected Irish Citizens are debating questions set by facilitators and using ‘deliberative polling’ to come [...]
Tags:Debate·Dublin Castle·EU·European Commission·European Union·Irish people
Flicking through some press releases in my reader tonight I noted one from Fine Gael regarding their decision not to participate in the Late Late Show debate on the Seanad earlier this evening. I was wondering about all that testosterone on the top panel. Reading the statement I was none the wiser that RTE had [...]
Tags:Alex White·David Norris·Donie Cassidy·Fidelma Healy-Eames·Fine Gael·Frances Fitzgerald·Labour·Late Late Show·Paschal Donohue·Seanad Eireann·Seanad Reform
Did you know there was a tax amnesty last month? Country on it’s knees, social welfare being difficult to claim, cuts in public services, banks being bailed out… but if you owned land and had not paid stamp duty on it don’t worry – a deal was done and there’s been a unseemly rush to [...]
Tags:Law Society·Stamp duty·stamp duty incentive scheme·Tax Amnesty Ireland
A few fluffers while fluffymaster is away… The 50 most important lesbians and gay men in British Politics Go on I dare you – name 5 such endangered species in Ireland? Obama told the UN yesterday that he will support a statement on lesbian and gay rights. The United States supports the UN Statement on [...]
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A few weeks ago Fianna Fáil uploaded a video of local election candidates. I only got round to watching it on Monday. The first thing that struck me – Poor Dermot Flanagan from Tallaght South – someone didn’t check the caption spelling! (Dermot was one candidate who caught my attention at the Ard Fheis, he [...]
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