SMOKES & DAGGERS

A mischievous mix of (mostly) news

CLIMATE Action Minister Richard Bruton has pledged that all postal deliveries between the canals will be zeroemission by the end of this year as part of An Post’s ‘Post Eco’ plan. It can’t be long before Postman Pat’s Special Delivery Service will be banned, given that Pat uses a van, a motorbike and a helicopter to make his deliveries in that show. For shame!

SPEAKING of the postal service, Amy Huberman, pictured, took to Instagram with a photo of a letter. The envelope was addressed: ‘Brian O’Driscoll & Amy Huberman, Southside Dublin.’ She wrote: ‘Never felt more like someone in a Ross O’Carroll-Kelly book.’

WRITER Colm Tobin (‘NOT the author Colm Tóibín,’ he explains in his Twitter biography) was quick to respond to the news of the Irish €175m EuroMillions jackpot winner: ‘Unfortunately they still can’t afford to get on the property ladder.’

MYTAXI has announced it is undertaking its second rebrand in 12 months. MyTaxi was itself a rebrand of the perfectly good name Hailo. The baffling new name, ‘Free Now’, will be rolled out in the coming months. Reporter Richard Chambers captured the mood with his suggested rebrand of ‘WhyTaxi?’

WHEN it comes to the war against the Dublin Bus corridor, there are victims and there are victims. At a recent local meeting to discuss the threat to gardens along the route, a lawyer living in Ranelagh highlighted a burning injustice: three of his houses (estimated value, €9m) would be affected. The humanity!