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# current-affairs - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Only losers take the bus, right Leo?: The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: The Gathering at the Dáil; Cabinet clones; Alan Shatter knows what you did last summer.
# current-affairs - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Fine Gael TDs on Twitter and free GP care : The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
# current-affairs - Saturday 4 May, 2013
Snake oil, champagne-licking Troika: The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Peter Mathews takes himself hostage and the Womb Repossession Bill takes centre stage.
# current-affairs - Saturday 27 April, 2013
James Reilly, circuses: The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: “I was delighted when I heard we were getting a new political party,” a man on a bus in Rialto said. “Then I heard there were TDs in it.”
# current-affairs - Saturday 20 April, 2013
Here is the week in news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: making it easier for everyone to be insolvent; Alan Shatter’s beliebers; Quinnsolvency and waking up the Troika in the middle of the night…
# current-affairs - Saturday 13 April, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: How Ireland has some of the fittest fat kids in the world and why the axing of Communion grants is ‘worse than the famine’.
# current-affairs - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kim Jong-Un clings on to his place in the Dáil Technical Group, pointing Phil Hogan at North Korea and Ireland nominated by troika for fantasy government awards.
# current-affairs - Saturday 30 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via TheMire wire: Government concern over threesomes, Gardaí to be microchipped – and how Uzis could have prevented the bailout…
# current-affairs - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: RTE stars confused by Pope’s message of humility, and Office of Public Works ‘may never know’ the source of the Cork floods.
# current-affairs - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: The country is ‘fraped’ with snow; Pope Francis feels let down by Ming Flanagan; horsemeat scandal neigh fair to the rich?
# current-affairs - Saturday 9 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Rodents’ emigration plans thwarted; Revenue Commissioners get seriously serious; smart economy passes away in Leinster House.
# current-affairs - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: SIPTU president wins Oscar; hopes rise of a politicians’ strike; Pope quits over Croke Park II; Lift chaos leads to primary care centre.
# current-affairs - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Gerry’s teddy all the talk in toy town; today’s marginalised looking forward to a State apology in 2063; cé hé Micheál Martin?
# current-affairs - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Donkey meat disgusts horse meat eaters; Pat Rabbitte’s Valentine to himself; retirement advice from an ex-Pope.
# current-affairs - Sunday 10 February, 2013
Column: Why I should be allowed to vote at 17
I will inherit the actions of the electorate’s decisions for decades to come, so why shouldn’t I be able to influence government policy too, asks Adam Houlihan.
# current-affairs - Saturday 9 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Burgers first past the post; Labour reminds us, ‘I woz ere’; all back to Coppers after bank debt deal.
# current-affairs - Saturday 2 February, 2013
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Irish phrases that could confuses visitors for The Gathering, Clare Daly’s ‘house’ measure, and disoriented man could be member of government…
# current-affairs - Saturday 12 January, 2013
This is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Tinfoil hats to protect against interweb; abortion floodgates ‘like Guinness at The Gathering’; James Reilly a mystery to the Troika.
# current-affairs - Sunday 6 January, 2013
This is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Employed people get the Pat Kenny jitters; newspapers to save the interweb; Irish people want to be Swiss.
# current-affairs - Saturday 5 January, 2013
# current-affairs - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Al-Jazeera buys struggling US cable channel, launches push into America
The international broadcaster has bought Current TV in a deal aimed at allowing it to expand in the US market.
# current-affairs - Saturday 29 December, 2012
The Mire’s review of the year’s news… skewed
Government response to Anonymous cheers everyone up; Heathrow goes green; Irish people want to escape to prisons; Love/Hate Christmas special: This was 2012 according to The Mire
# current-affairs - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Government apologises to Angela Merkel for Mayan apocalypse insult and the IMF’s seasonal message of good will to all. No, really.
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# current-affairs - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
RTÉ reveals new presenter for morning news programme
Keelin Shanley will front a new morning news programme on RTÉ One television and RTÉ News Now in the new year.
# current-affairs - Friday 14 December, 2012
The Evening Fix… now with an offer you might refuse
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
# current-affairs - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: 103% of adults fluent in Irish; evidence of a parliament found in Leinster House; rainwater is tax-free… for now.
# current-affairs - Saturday 24 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Gardaí lack resources to monitor Love/Hate characters; HSE inquiry to proceed without actually inquiring; and student grants delayed until after emigration.
# current-affairs - Saturday 10 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: A Gathering storm; Al-Quinnada; and Mitt Romney’s Irish cousin?
# current-affairs - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Making it easier to get an Irish Heritage certificate; criminals too busy wetting themselves at Garda Segways to commit crimes; Richie Boucher catches Bond producers’ eye.
# current-affairs - Saturday 27 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Ice-cream for children’s votes? Tayto Park as possible children’s hospital site? European ‘Rear of the Year’ award for the Taoiseach?
# current-affairs - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
The 5 at 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
George Lee joins Prime Time as part of RTÉ News shake-up
RTE has announced a range of changes to its current affairs programmes – including a new focus on investigative work.
# current-affairs - Saturday 20 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Roscommon man jumps for space to advertise his CV; the Prophet Seán Quinn; Enda having fun in Brussels.
# current-affairs - Saturday 13 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Suing for the right to piddle in peace; bank begs people not to pay cash; Enda upstages Rosanna.
# current-affairs - Friday 12 October, 2012
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things you need to know this morning…
Prime Time was “fair, impartial” on Quinn family
BAI publishes its reasons for rejecting Quinns’ allegations of bias and factual inaccuracy against RTÉ current affairs show.
# current-affairs - Saturday 6 October, 2012
Here is the week’s news… skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Children’s hospital site for Balbriggan? TDs to stay home to cut costs? Chinese takeaways off menu for athletes?
# current-affairs - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
The 5 at 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# current-affairs - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
RTÉ News Now and TG4 HD now available on UPC
‘Ardghléine’ is the Irish word for high definition apparently…
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