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I caught a bit of John McAreavey on Pat Kenny just now
https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-the-pat-kenny-show/john-mcareavey-on-life-after-michaela

He is launching a podcast on events in Mauritius on 2 December.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

interesting, although I didn't add in any XMGisms.

Brokenshire is quitting, for health reasons, apparently.

I'll wear high heels, that will keep me out of the flood.

Ray Darcy WTF!

Top 10 RTE presenter salaries in 2015:

10. Darragh Moloney €188,803 (not in 2014 figures)

9. Bryan Dobson - €195,913 (€195,816 in 2014)

8. Nicky Byrne €200,583 (not in 2014 figures)

7. Claire Byrne €201,500 (not in 2014 figures)

6. Sean O'Rourke -  €290,113 (€290,096 in 2014)

5. Marian Finucane - €295,000 (€295,000 in 2014)

4. Miriam O'Callaghan - €299,000 (€280,445 in 2014)

3. Joe Duffy - €389,988 (€416,893 in 2014)

2. Ray D'Arcy €400,000 (not in 2014 figures)

1. Ryan Tubridy €495,000 (€495,000 in 2014)

I see the delightful Kevin Myers is in some hot water as he published an article in the Sunday Times claiming that the BBC's best paid female presenters were paid more as they were Jewish. The Sundays Times has now pulled the article. This might or might not be a major thing, but he denied the Holocaust in the Indo 8 years ago, that article has now disappeared also.

And let me say that I have no time people critical of Isreali policies being regard as "anti-Semitic", that is bollix, but as the recent thread on concentration camps indicated you cannot deny the basic events in WW2.

Which advertisements do you recall or should be informed about if you are mere youth,

Horse to France
https://youtu.be/Mxl0UmXi8a0

Sally O'Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hmFPBf-C8

Anticipation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuEtGPXLPI

and specially for Shamrock Shore - Miranda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzLLcOUG-4

Things that threaten civilisation
The great Whatsapp outage of 2017
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/technology/whatsapp-is-down-company-aware-of-outage-issue-and-working-to-fix-it-35678584.html

On this day, 105 years ago, RMS Titanic sank with a loss of 1500 souls, including some of the wealthiest people in the world.
All because Harland and Wolff used grade 3 rivets instead of grade 4.