Friday

Wednesday 13 December: Too long a shacrifiche can make a stooone of the hooort

09:00
2003
Fugitive former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, apprehended by US military patrol near town of Tikrit, hiding in secret bunker

I ran Iraq, war
09:03
Lucky foot: A prisoner serving time in Mountjoy Prison has disappeared while on a visit to a hospice in Dublin.
09:06
Too long a shacrifiche can make a stooone of the hooort
- Bob Hairgeldof reads William Butler Yeats
10:10
Kangatarianism is a style of diet which excludes all meat except that from kangaroos.
10:49
Give blood for Christmas.
12:02
Scribblestown Park. Scratch two lives. One of the drug runners most known to police in the city plus a plumber who was putting in the pipes when the hitman rang.
12:03
The mortgage and real estate people have come out and said they will botch together a voluntary code of practice. Yeah, yeah.
12:06
Death Squad:
He was suspected of being involved in a number of recent contract killings in and around the Dublin area.
12:09
Wrong place, wrong time:
The killer or killers arrived and shot the apprentice who was downstairs before moving upstairs and shooting the 39-year-old man as he slept in bed. The other plumber arrived back at the house at about 10am and alerted gardai.
12:57
What I don't understand is that everybody acts so surprised just because it's on the telly:
A Dublin-based auctioneer and a mortgage company were shown to illegally share financial details of potential buyers. Earlier, the chief executive of the Independent Mortgage Advisers Federation described the programme as shocking. However, speaking on RTE Radio's Morning Ireland, Michael Dowling said however that he did not believe such practices were widespread.
13:06
It's all action about the corrupt housing market stitch up all of a sudden. All press statements, more like.
13:12
Associates whacked the crim. The 20-year old plumber's apprentice was caught up in it.
13:13
They found a 06 reg VW passat. The Hitman's preferred vehicle. Automatic handgun. Safe house found out. Bought for cash, no doubt, to launder the money. Gardai hope it calms things down. Gun crime all time high this year. Repercussions are expected. Cabra, he was from. Best keep our heads down. Bullets flying inner city there will be.
18:29
Poor dead fuckers:
The Irish Times 12/12/2006
16:26 Police investigating multiple prostitute murders in Ipswich find fourth body
19:35
In that book I read, written by a Dublin prostitute, what's it called, Dogwide, as hard and all as life got with all the institutional beatings and abuse she got as a child, the beatings and drug addiction as life as a hooker on the Grand Canal, no matter how bad things got at least she never ended up working on Benburberry St, she said. Whereas, I did.
20:05
He's from down the road, St Michans near the Four Courts, past the Bridewell. Sixty violent deaths in the Free State this year. Twenty-three cut down with guns. Poor fucker.
20:12
Post Prime Time Promise from the Teesop: "Legislation". Glut-ernment backfilling their statutory obligations. RTE backfilling their web content marketing.
22:25
He's been Tango'd. Operation Oak, a Garda operation, was set up to get him and got he was, sure enough. He's got now.