What's in the Sunday Papers ?

[Baron von Biffo]

The Sindo hyped the property market to the heavens during the boom and it looks like they're trying to talk it up again.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...m-3223565.html

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...d-3223694.html

If politicians were doing something like this we would want to know if there were any conflicts of interest involved.

[Greengoddess]

There is a savage article about the Irish left by Browne in the SBP. Problem is there is really only a rudimentary notion of ideology here. Or what it may now mean.

[C. Flower]

There is a savage article about the Irish left by Browne in the SBP. Problem is there is really only a rudimentary notion of ideology here. Or what it may now mean.

Very good point. I think I'll go and get it. Personally, I think that religion has a lot to do with it as it fills much of the mental space in which ideology usually happens.

[Darren J. Prior]

And finally on Sunday Times page 1: Enda Kenny tells ministers precisely how much the property tax will be. It's not 1,000, it's not 500.. .

Well how much is it?

[Saoirse go Deo]

Very good point. I think I'll go and get it. Personally, I think that religion has a lot to do with it as it fills much of the mental space in which ideology usually happens.

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[PaddyJoe]

Thanks to John Burns of the Sunday Times for the tweets:

Wicklow woman with multiple sclerosis plans to apply to High Court to allow her partner assist her suicide. Sunday Times & Bizz Post, page 1

Sindo splash is "40-hour week on cards for teachers". Off lead on "Anglo Irish row over Kate topless photos"

Sindo reports that "hardcore porn" has been uncovered in Fas staff emails. Sex pix sent to Justice and HSE. Bad news for public service!

Sindo and Sunday Times have news of Charles Haughey's will. The old crook left just under 1m in the end. All to the long-suffering Mrs CJ

Rosanna Davison tells @NiamhHoran the Playboy shoot "helped her overcome insecurities she had harboured for years about her enviable body"

Tom McEnaney tells Sindo that his appearance on the Revenue defaulters list is really Sarah Newman's fault

Lying Eyes aka Sharon Collins poses for pix for the Sindo. but of course cannot talk to them - as part of her release conditions

However "a source close to Sharon Collins" does talk to Sindo. Wonder who the hell that could be #eyesroll

btw Rosanna Davison also tells Sindo she sees posing for Playboy as "an honour" and has joined an "amazing" list of women who also posed

..including Bo Derek, Marilyn Monroe, Charlize Theron. "It certainly didn't do them any harm. It's hardly pornography" er, it is, actually!

Clearly, Eoghan Harris hasn't seen Mary Robinson's new book yet. She credits him with helping her win the 1990 election. honest!

Eoghan Harris is back, attacking in turn the Labour party, RTE, and the public service. Not exactly refreshed after the holiday, so

Sunday Times news: Barrow Street in Dublin up in arms over the Google-isation of their area.

Sunday Times news: @ShivMag reveals plans for a John Joe Nevin boxing academy in disused Mullingar army barracks

Sunday Times News: FOI documents from Dept of Health reveal infighting between James Reilly and Roisin Shortall, writes @smissmac

Also in ST News: Leo Varadkar orders CIE not to use its corporate box at Croke Park

Sunday Times News: UK has tightened up on Irish businessmen trying to become bankrupt there, writes @mark_tighe

Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes poll reveals 14% against abortion even to save the life of the mother. Also state of the parties..

Sunday Times page 1 - James Reilly plans to take back medical cards from those over 70s who are hanging grimly onto them

And finally Sunday Times will lead tomorrow with the threat to the future of Irish Daily Star after it publishes the Kate Middleton pix

https://twitter.com/JohnBurnsST

[Baron von Biffo]

"Wicklow woman with multiple sclerosis plans to apply to High Court to allow her partner assist her suicide. Sunday Times & Bizz Post, page 1 "

This is a subject I'm becoming more conservative about of late. Heretofore I've been very supportive of the idea of a 'right to death' and assisted suicide, in part because my own illness has an unpleasant terminal phase so it's something I'd want personally. Lately though I'm struck by the volume and tone of attacks on pensioners from politicians, the media and online commentators.

There's an ugliness about much of it that wouldn't need much of a push to descend into pressurising older or sick people into requesting suicide to expedite inheritances.

[Richardbouvet]

Biffo, I'm really sorry, as I'm sure are others, to hear that you have a potentially life-threatening illness. I wish you many years of life yet.

I agree with your main point. We need to be ultra-careful about any right-to-die legislation. It is dangerous.

[Holly]

Apart from Bertie Ahern's wish that people who warned about the property bubble ought to commit suicide, I am not aware of anyone in government putting pressure on a sick person to kill himself. This is theoretically possible but improbable and it should not be used to force terminally ill and suffering people to prolong their suffering. All the cases we hear about involve very sick and impaired people who want to end it all such as that unfortunate man in England recently.

[Baron von Biffo]

Biffo, I'm really sorry, as I'm sure are others, to hear that you have a potentially life-threatening illness. I wish you many years of life yet.

I agree with your main point. We need to be ultra-careful about any right-to-die legislation. It is dangerous.

Thanks Richard,

No need to cast lots for my raiment just yet though, we biffos are made of stern stuff.

There's a level of ugliness to the attacks on pensioners that I never encountered before. Perhaps it was always there and people were reluctant to speak out before but there are no inhibitions these days.
'What do they need it for anyway?' 'They don't have mortgages so they don't need big pensions'. 'They are robbing their children'.

Pensioners are 'they'. Something less than human. An intolerable burden on society. A pot of loot to grab.

[Baron von Biffo]

The Sindo reports that Gump has demanded that teachers work a 40hr week.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...k-3230132.html

He might find that teachers will support him in that and cut all the stuff they currently do in their own time.

Good will from the staff is a valuable commodity in any workplace and employers who rashly destroy it may discover to their cost that it takes a long time to earn it back.

[Baron von Biffo]

Haughey's estate only came to €1m.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...l-3230146.html

What did he do with the rest of the proceeds of his crimes?

[Baron von Biffo]

Brian Hayes on attacking pensioners on News at One in a moment.

[homer]

Sorry to hear of your illness Baron von Biffo. When I hear such news makes one value each hour of each day. As we say in Mayo, nobody has a lease.

Keep right on until the end of the road - all activity, even being on the internet, is good. I am over 70 myself and am getting tactful messages from my children re health care etc

[Baron von Biffo]

Sorry to hear of your illness Baron von Biffo. When I hear such news makes one value each hour of each day. As we say in Mayo, nobody has a lease.

Keep right on until the end of the road - all activity, even being on the internet, is good. I am over 70 myself and am getting tactful messages from my children re health care etc

Thanks Homer, I'm not falling off my perch any time soon. Back in 1996 when I was diagnosed first, the medics told me that life expectancy was 5 years - They're still telling me that There's been a lot of new research in the area and I've benefited greatly from it. One of my consultants jokes about renting me out to medical schools