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Tuppenceworth's Paper Round has turned out to have something of an unexpectedly enduring appeal. So much so that the conspirators have met a few times to discuss whether to revisit the project. As part of one of those explorations, I'd like to make a call for submissions from readers.
For those interested, Rósín English has been touring the country, asking people at constituency level about what are the issues that are important to them locally. She also talks to local journalists and candidates to try to get a flavour of how the seats will fall. You can find a record of these shows on the (much improved) RTE website.
We've all had those moments when we arrive at the front door and look at our companion for the keys, only to find them looking back at us. It is this, I am sure, that metaphorically represents the reason the tuppenceworth. ie blog failed to shatter the hopes and dreams of all other nominated blogs in the Irish Blog Awards last year.
Who knows what the Sunday World, or the Evening Herald will fill their pages with now? The Gardai have been fined €70,000 for breach of privacy after the High Court held them responsible for leaking information to a newspaper. We might anticipate a break from such leaks for a week or two.
Yesterday, as I browsed the vastnesses of the new Chapters Bookshop on Parnell St, my eye was caught by a handsome hardback edition of The Audubon Reader, a selection of the work of the great American artist and ornithologist John James Audubon.
I've been asked this Saturday to come on to Taste, Newstalk's 'what's on this weekend' programme to talk about the early editions of the Sunday Papers. We'll only have the front pages, and it might all be legitimate high quality journalism but if you'd like to hear some Paper Round style reader's opinions tune in at 8. 45pm, Saturday evening.
Though suffering the final indignity of having his death reported while he still lived, David Ervine has now, officially, passed away. A rare adult in a political world populated by kids, it was good to hear his sane voice, even if it often seemed as if no-one was listening. Strange to say, he will be greatly mourned down south.
When you're too slothful to flesh your thoughts out, why not just print the headlines? Irish Times prints photo of Saddam's Corpse- On Weekend Review front pageThey either are running with it or they're not. If they want to run it, its the main image of the week and should be on the Front Page. If they don't think that's suitable, they shouldn't run it at all.
If you've ever lived in a new estate or apartment block, you've probably run into problems with the management company whose job it is to look after shared areas and such like. Today's post on the newly RSS-feed equipped McGarr Solicitors site gives you a Notice for you to serve on the company if they are in breach of their duty to you.
I'm slowly, slowly grinding through the Paper Round raw notes for the Sunday World. I just wanted to express my pain at the kind of gunk that it involved. I'll try to get it finished and do up a proper post, with a pie, before the weekend.
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