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TV3 HAS CONFIRMED the line-up for its live televised debate on the Fiscal Compact tomorrow night, the first of the referendum campaign.
The debate, hosted by Vincent Browne, will only feature one party leader – Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin – with the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams all declining to participate.
The hour-long debate, airing tomorrow night at 9pm, will see Martin argue for a Yes vote alongside Fine Gael’s director of elections for the campaign, agriculture minister Simon Coveney.
Arguing the case against ratification of the treaty will be Sinn Féin deputy president Mary Lou McDonald and the Socialist Party’s Joe Higgins.
TV3′s Director of News, Andrew Hanlon, confirmed that the leaders of Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Féin had all declined to participate in the debate for various reasons.
“We are happy to host the first national television debate on this highly important and divisive issue which we hope will help our viewers make an informed decision on May 31st,” he said.
The debate will be followed at 11pm by the usual edition of Tonight with Vincent Browne, offering analysis and discussion of the debate.
It is understood that Gerry Adams had declined to participate in the debate because of allegations made against him on a previous TV3 programme, which the Louth TD believes went unchallenged.
Enda Kenny had previously declined to participate in Browne’s debate in advance of last year’s general election, in an apparent dispute over on-air comments made by the TV3 host.
However, Browne himself said earlier this month that he understood Kenny’s objection to appearing in tomorrow’s debate was a procedural one, and was not related to that previous dispute.
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I wonder what the rent for one week is on the shop on Grafton St. No trade for a week made their negligence in hygiene a very expensive mistake, not to mention the bad press of having dead rats on food making premises is going to cost them.
It was one day.
@Scott Kincaid: spoilsport. Don’t let facts get in the way of a good moan!
@oDevilsavocado:
@Devilsavocado: .theres a rat in the kitchen what you going to do?obviously catch it in a trap moron
All deli’s and restaurant should have the same high standard kitchen,
Set out the criteria
High standard easy to clean flooring
All identical
Same sinks
Fat separators
Waste pipes, 50mm / 100mm
Same standard fridges cooling rooms.
Counter tops,
All on castors for easy removal.
To many Dirty old backstreet Kip’s around.
The restaurants on Moore St. never look clean.
So he was brown bread then
Stella-a-a-a!!!!
Clean up the rodent droppings!
I don’t know of any other State organisation that publicises their findings. Perhaps fire inspectors could do same.
@John Flood: HIQA.
Fire alerts Ireland
@John Flood: I think that’s a great idea.
If there was an official website for such alerts, it would help. We could check it & get alerts for our areas. Or nationally.
A few years ago I spotted a newspaper alert recalling faulty immersion timers. My sister’s place had the same one. Pure chance that I saw it and told others. That company ran ads and replaced them with safe ones on request, free of charge. Fair enough, if you knew to ring up and request one. But there was no coordination.
I let our management company know of the issue. Two of my neighbours had already had fires starting in the hot press.
All places built during the boom, bought off the plans & signed off. All with the same batch of immersion timers. Some will still have them.
This is a list I find interesting whenever it comes out. Sad I know. Living in Waterford I do not recall seeing an incident occurring in Waterford. Whilst I am sure the establishments in Waterford are clean, I sometimes wonder how thorough the inspections are by the officers in the area
Do the Gardai think it was murder, want to be investigating that?
Has the journal blamed Boris yet, or indeed president Trump???
@John: The Journal generally doesn’t tend to blame Boris or Trump, that would be some.of the commentators here. You should be grateful, if people didn’t make those comments and you didn’t have to constantly defend them then what you spend all your spare time doing?
What’s the problem? He was dead.
@Chris Folliard: how did he get in? Are they more of them? why wasn’t the dead rat removed?
@Jim Buckley Barrett: :Through the door
:Possibly : Couldn’t remove himself because he is dead.
@Chris Folliard: Traps are supposed to be checked daily. You sure it was the door? Wasn’t a hole somewhere? Maybe there’s a nest of them on the property. maybe repairs are needed to bring the place up to standards.
@Jim Buckley Barrett: they were waiting for the postmortem
@Chris Folliard: Depends on how much per kg they were charging!
@Jim Buckley Barrett: maybe the Pied Piper was staying there ?
@Jim Buckley Barrett: answer to your question is probably an open door or window,that not rocket science is it. Are there more off them?100%yes..keep your windows and doors closed. Oh and always check the toilet before you sit down because they can swim. Ie theres a rat in every kitchen, you just don’t see them Jim.
@FlopFlipU: I can picture the little white tent over the body, and tiny people in white coats and masks going in and out…
Trying to think of a joke in relation to the apple green rat.
T’sangs off my list now .
@Ciaran105: flames in clonee is better
@Declan Holden: it sure is , had a nice meal a couple of weeks ago. Certainly going back . Tnx
Is that where the Dáil rat ended up?
@Ian Heaton / Eoin De Héadún: the dail rat published the budget yesterday
I love coming to the comment section to read all the expert opinions…
Yes Name and Shame if ye had the same laws for litter lots our country would be A Lot Cleaner
@pat seery: Maybe all citizens in their various capacities should be tagged in some way and named and shamed when they break the rules. Big Brother here we come.
Must have sampled the chicken fillets
If trap one was occupied by rat one, where did rat 2, 3 and others reside. Did the wait in quay for trap one to become evacuated?
At least the rat was dead I suppose?
@Madra: maybe it died because it ate the food….
Glad I have never set foot in any of these places
At lease the rat was dead I suppose?
Watt heaf hookin’ die of??!!
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