From Aretha to Jacko, Bob Marley to De La Soul, Prince to Kanye – they’ve all been on Top Of The Pops. Now, after 42 years, the world’s longest running weekly music programme is coming off our screens. At its peak it was a must-see pulling in 15m viewers, but BBC bosses reckon the show’s…
Author: Brian Greene
Obscene
Aertel p132 reports…. BOI CHIEF EXECUTIVE WAS PAID E2.5M The chief executive of Bank of Ireland, Brian Goggin received a total remuneration (pay plus bonus and pension) of in excess of E2.5m for the financial year 2005/2006. This is a 31% increase on the E1.9m he received the previous year. In addition to his basic…
Higgins V Bertie
Dáil Eireann 21/06/2006 The Taoiseach: As always, Deputy Joe Higgins would like to bring us back to the 1930s. Mr. Joe. Higgins (Socialist Party): They built more houses in the 1930s. The Taoiseach: Deputy Higgins loves asking questions—– Ms. Lynch: That is his job. The Taoiseach: —– but never wants to listen to any answers.…
European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO
SIGN THE PETITION PRESS RELEASE 19th June 2006 European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO Podcasters across the world have come together to emphatically reject the re-drafted Broadcast Treaty. the Irish Podcasting Representive Body (PodRepBod) has been joined by the UK Podcasters Association and German Podcastverband to lobby WIPO in a pan-european effort to assert…
breakdown hits RTE radio news at one
RTE radio one news this sunday was been struck by a technical breakdown, the new production system “crashed”. Nina Simone is playing out now from continuity. – and they’re back. 13:13pm
Why did RTE give Haughey such an easy ride.
RTE after broadcasting Dohertys implication was on strike by the time CJH went in 1992. Damaged by telephones (& bugs) old guard Fianna Fail passed away in an era of strikes, Sean Doherty went on Night Hawks and to a din of noise in the background he implicated Charles Haughey in the bugging in 1982…
Gates follows Scoble
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is giving up his day-to-day role at the company see CNN
Haughey – living away beyond our means
“The figures which are just now becoming available to us show one thing very clearly, as a community we are living away beyond our means”download the wav of this sample I will remember him for the quote above. When this country was a basket case, 60% income tax, interest rate over 15% exporting our young,…
A total portrait with no omissions
my under used fliker site is here with 14 new shots as my last 3 posts were about a certain SNS and Im still waiting for the ‘big one’ from be bop a luba, I will refrain from mentioning beb0 – so I’ll mention sandy thumb (prawn cracker) who’s LP went in at #1 in…