A quicker one today, because the news today is basically boring as hell. Watch it all if you like.
Joe O’Reilly’s phone records further exposed as alibi conflict
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Joe O’Reilly’s phone records were far removed from his alibi. If he’d been at home, as was his story, it was impossible - in the opinion of an o2 technician - for his phone to have been picked up where it was.
Guilty.
Tom Parlon leaves the PDs and politics to lead construction federation
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Parlon’s out, and won’t seek a Seanad nomination or the PD leadership. Some reports say he’s even left the party altogher. This is the guy who led the OPW; now he’s going to be leading the construction lot. Wow.
So who for the PDs now? It seems like Colm O’Gorman, who’s only been a member for the last year or so, is now going to be the only candidate left to lead them. But what odds he’ll say no, given that - like Parlon - he is, in essence, only a celebrity candidate for the party?
Parlon defends any accusations of a conflict of interests by saying all he did in the OPW was sign their stuff, and had no policy steering role as Minister. He goes on to fill three minutes of airtime with whingespeak that nobody actually gives a toss about. He does, though, worm out well from a Dobbo question about whether it’s ethical that somebody with his OPW familiarity be free to take up such a role.
The Sports News with Colm! Murray!
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GAA: Graham Geraghty’s coming back to the Meath panel, after leaving last week over a training now. Of course, it never happened, because Geraghty ultimately never showed for training. Meanwhile, RTÉ have confirmed they’ll be showing Cork v Tipp on Saturday evening, with a 7pm throw-in. The losers get Waterford, the winners get Cork.
Soccer: Brendan Rea leaves Kilkenny City; Roy Keane is expected to sign up to five people in the next week; and West Ham buy Craig Bellamy for a club record €7.5m.
Craig Bellamy’s not worth €7.5m. How many clubs has he had in the last five years now?!
Wes Houlihan’s Scottish move is on hold.
Leeds United might be dead. Again. Expressions of interest, blah blah.
Cycling: Swiss bloke in Tour de France leads by 33 seconds. Blah.
Horse Racing: Some horses or other. The ground in the Curragh has a particular condition of some sort. I don’t know what it is. I fast-forwarded through.
Cricket: the ‘Quadrangular’ (?!) Series kicked off in Clontarf. The Windies beat the shite out of Holland with 10 wickets to spare. Wow. Ireland play the Dutch next.
