A glance at the week that was
We now know
NUI Galway has withdrawn its support for Rag Week after a number of incidents and dozens of arrests this week
Bono and the Edge have written songs for a Broadway musical of Spider-Man
An Irish-based episode of The Simpsons will be shown in Ireland on St Patrick’s Day – before its US screening
The Numbers
8: The number of Oscars won by Slumdog Millionaire.
20%: The difference in amount Dublin workers earn compared to those in the Midlands, according to the CSO
100,000: The estimated attendance at Saturday’s union-organised protest march in Dublin
Cop Show
Another week, another exciting instalment of Law and Order: Anglo Irish Bank. This week, at least 16 Garda fraud officers went into the bank’s head office as part of an investigation into possible company breaches. It came in the same week that minister Noel Dempsey described the actions of some of those involved as economic treason. Public executions will no doubt be planned for St Stephen’s Green should anyone be charged and found guilty of such a crime.
And....cut
A father who was asked to stop filming the birth of his first child lost a €38,000 claim against Mount Carmel Hospital. John McAuley (right, with Jurgita Jachimaviciute) was asked by a nurse to stop filming while the newborn baby was recovering from a caesarean birth. He said he had wanted to film “every precious moment” of the first minutes of his baby’s life and that stopping him was a breach of contract. Not so, said the judge.