2002 US-backed military coup to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reversed by popular demonstrations, events captured by Irish documentary crew
10:10
Einstein, who published his Special Theory of Relativity on this day in 1905, never used soap when shaving because he knew it does not help to soften the bristles. Only water does.
10:11
Bertie says he got the money because he won it on a horse. 8k. 15k on gigis. That's his official explanation. No, he don't remember which horse.
10:12
Bertie said to the Tribunal lawyer he'd take him outside to sort it all out.
10:15
She says she wanted to get a postal vote because the man called it. She was asked was she going to be away on business or holiday. She's retired, she said 'holiday'. Was told she couldn't have a postal vote. It's only for business.
10:41
Vote online? Oh my god. That's an idea. Vote once, vote with several aliases.
10:52
The revisionist rush to justify Tchip Bertie taking anoraks full of money by saying he was shafted by the meejia. The Crone has stated what we already knew, namely that she is a prostitute. Offer her money and she is anyone's, professionally speaking.
- Going forward. Bertie won the debate. He's great. (Even though his opponent is a client of her communications consultancy. I shit you not.)
10:54
I was here, parading towards you, when I saw the magnetic Inda Kinny (my client) last week.
- I'm not going to decide this morning. Let the people of Ireland decide. Pat, if I can just come back and call what I'm about to say 'the issue'. It's soundbites but no substance. We are the baked beans on toast of Europe. Nothing is perfect, that's the world.
11:15
Everyone thinks they're going to have an influence on the forthcoming General Election. Cops, nurses, teachers. All trying to haul everyone else over a barrel. "Social partnership", they call it. 'Towards Oblivion 2016' is the designated plan.
11:17
Phweeeeerrrrrrp! AMMA-REEEEEEEE!
11:20
Musician on the radio dedicates a song for CJH (Haughey) who is dead now and not coming back.
11:47
Silence! To the tiresome radio report of a family seeking justice and not getting any. So sweet the twittering birds dare to peep while the chopping crows swinge the air with their caw.
12:23
The Irish Times Breaking News: Two Sinn Fein men arrested during protest at auction of Independence memorabilia
12:25
Kids block doors with their chocolate smeared smirks, sputtering forth invective and creative humiliation. Heaps of private lives lived on the street. Nobody has a say in how things run around here, they all have a shout.
12:52
The coal face of freedom:
A 32-year-old man was injured in what appears to have been a paramilitary-style shooting in north Belfast last night. He sustained gunshot wounds to both legs. Police say he was attacked in the Agnes Street area by two men wearing balaclavas.12:57
Hornets are built for mass murder and honey.
13:22
"Stop interrupting me!"
13:30
Proactive fundraising. I have no idea where the money was kept. I only had a quick look at some of our accounts, even though I was Bertie's treasurer. Friends of Ours gathered the money.
13:50
Bryan McFadden, a pop-singer from boyband Westlife saved a fan again. That's the second time. First it was a mugger in London who attacked a female fan. Bosh. Then a kid fell into a river and B-boy jumped in after him. Boom. He'll win them over one by one. He's young enough to get the President's Medal (Gaisce). Just because he's a millionaire airhead blond pop star shouldn't disqualify him from being a Gentleman.
13:51
Some cow on the radio says she'd kill supermodel Kate Furze to shag superjrunkie pop sometimes-singer Pete Droperty. If I said that about Justo Timber to get at Scarface Joho I'd be cut down. Massacred.
14:02
23 year old in court connected with the barbaric prison murder of a 19-year old. Teachers are suffering from bullying. Bwaaa-haaaa.
14:12
New figures show there are now more heroin addicts in Ireland than ever before. The country's biggest voluntary treatment centre, Merchants Quay Ireland (Dublin), said it cannot cope with the demand on its services.16:37
Moanair time as a mother of a spina bifida sufferer is stiffed by an Irish airline on the wheelchair. Why'd she book it Moanair in the first place, FFS? One hundred and fifty heavy lids for the chairlift.
17:13
Gardai in Tallaght have arrested three people in connection with this morning's murder of a 23-year-old man in Fettercairn.18:03
A 50-year-old man has been convicted of murdering another man as he lay seriously ill in a [Dublin] hospital bed.18:05
(Hefty talk – Irish political heavyweights, female.)
"Not true."
- Sorry, I have the figures
"Well, I beg your pardon."
18:12
The Crone is droning on about the same shit different channel from PK (Lord of Elections) that she did this morning.
18:24
Oh goodness. There - she did it again. Lowered the tone. Said your premise may be wrong as if my aunt had a willy she'd be my uncle. Hello? Watershed? Tut.
18:55
Revenue and their brown envelopes. Open them tomorrow.
18:56
Stunning light flows from the sky.
21:42
Bertie is like a wobbly jelly in a carpenter's workshop.
22:56
"Southern Ireland is the biggest tax haven in Europe."
23:10
The Hooker-on-a-Crutch just passed by like a febrile robot. Hoochy-coochy whistles coming from the hostel window run high. A dark man from Asia stops to ask her directions. She's almost in business but not quite. Wear ravaged face like an illiterate mother of 17 children from the 17th century after a bout of scarlet fever.
23:13
It's back up the way she props like a prosthetic spider shambling along in search of love and money.
23:40
Christ I'm studying the official maps of the Greater Chinatown area, and for the sake of water, they've included Offaly in Greater Dublin. Thereby entitling themselves to take the water running through the county (Shannon water). This stuff is incendiary. If this was public, there'd be a revolution. Basements would fill with blood.
23:56
- "Here lies the broken bones of a shattered dream."
What's that?
- It's an epitaph.
What-cha mean, an epitaph?
- For Wolfe Tone. It's as good as it's going to get.
