1938 BORN: J.J. Cale, AKA Jean Jacques Cale, influential US singer/songwriter, wrote Cocaine/After Midnight, http://www.jjcale.com/
10:10
The word 'poecilonym' is the synonym to the word 'synonym'.
11:06
College wise but street stupid. My kid's a panel beater. He's wise to the ting ting ting. Mary is not very happy about the Dunnes Stores' Christmas song.
11:11
Such was the hysteria at their 1963 Dublin show, The Beatles had to be smuggled into an 'Irish Independent' newspaper van to be brought safely from the venue to their hotel.
14:35
Crime is a disease. Cut it out. Lock them up and throw away the key. Internment centre in the Curragh. Terrorism. Call in the army.
- Da brown boxes fillin' up da choorch.
JOE: Back after this break.
18:23
Sign here, here and here:
A priest in the Diocese of Kerry has stood aside from his ministry after a complaint of inappropriate behaviour towards a man was made against him.
18:25
Scissors:
The two sisters convicted of the manslaughter and murder of Farah Swaleh Noor in March of last year have been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court.18:26
Don't lose the head, dick:
The trial heard the pair killed Mr Noor (38) after a drinking session at a house in Summerhill in Dublin city centre.18:29
They attempted to cover up the crime by spending several hours chopping up their victim's body with a hammer and kitchen knife. They dumped parts of his body around the capital. The victim's head and penis have never been found.
They took the head to Tallaght in a bus. Buried his head in the park near the shopping maul. Later one of them went back to move it. She brought it elsewhere. Opened the bag. Kissed his bloodied lips. Said she was sorry. Buried the head again. It has never been found. The penis is still missing. Did they cook it for breakfast with an egg? One has to wonder. The Sausage Sisters.
18:34
The Junior ("baba!") Minister with responsibility for mental health says the following in response to questions about two-year waiting lists to access mental health services for sick children in urgent need of assistance:
"I would query some of those lists. Some people, you know, like lists. They like long lists. They feel it gives them more - power."
19:52
Hugo Chavez accused of creeping authoritarianism. This from the Devil who introduced the Patriot Act. Hugo's nickname for W. is "Mr. Danger".
20:05
That crazy Chinaman's at the door again. Not drunk this time. His girlfriend with the baby don't want him in. The cops just talk to him and send him away. He's getting better at English since he sobered up. He walks the crooked walk of the damned as he turns down the Hill in search of a tin of beer.
22:08
That fella Chavez is doubling the civil service payroll to win his landslide electoral victories. Sound familiar? At least they're building new hospitals and schools with their boom money in Venezuela.
22:09
Time for a regime change, Mr. Danger?
