TV3’s style of reporting on Brian Lenihan’s health

A pair of lost Santa letters. Can you reunite them with their authors?

Building ablaze at Diageo’s brewing complex at St James’ Gate, Dublin [video]

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Sunday Times stamps on bloggers. No surprise there, but why are they afraid?

Checking out tomorrow’s Sundays today. Sindo leads with Listowel case. Consumer confidence is up after the budget.

On the Order Paper today:

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009 (Second Stage)
Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2005 (Second Stage)

Via Damien Mulley and John Keyes – Fuck You Deputy Stagg.

Suzy collects the links. And Brian Greene’s most excellent ringtone!

We’ve all hit Budgetphobia by now, but I’ll just leave you on this thought. The steep cuts to the public service were a by-product of the revulsion of the private sector to the plan for 12 days unpaid leave for the public service. Budget cuts were leaked for sounding out to the public for days [...]

Review of RTÉ1’s ‘Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own’ last night. In a word – celebrityhollowtastic.