A glance at the week that was
Wheelie bins on the run
Fingal County Council wheelie bins have mysteriously ended up in a Romanian town. Dubliner Aidan Pedreschi, who is on a round-the- world charity cycle, discovered the bins, adorned with a familiar logo, in Lovrin. Fingal County Council says it has no idea how the bins got there, pointing out that it has issued about 90,000 bins, and can't keep track of all of them. "It was very weird as every wheelie bin in the town was from my hometown," says Pedreschi, who posted photos of the errant bins on his blog, www.acousticmotorbike.com.
Saviano flees the gun
Roberto Saviano, the author of the mafia book Gomorrah, which has just been adapted into a film, is fleeing Italy after mobsters from the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, threatened to kill him by Christmas. Both the book and the film have received acclaim for exposing the appalling influence of the mafia in Neapolitan life. Saviano was already under round-the-clock police protection, but revealed his plans to leave the country after the latest threats were made public by the Italian media.
We now know
Madonna and Guy Ritchieare going their separate ways, confirming what everybody thought had already happened long ago.
A British man and woman were jailed in Dubai for having sex on a beach.
Oasis are returning to Slane Castle next year, 14 years after Noel Gallagher(right) and co supported REM at the famed venue.
€8.3m- The amount paid to the chief executives of the top-three Irish public banks in their most recent financial years.
59- The number of Humvees the boss of Mexico's public- sector teachers' union bought for her top officials
280- The number of redundancies being sought at Waterford Crystal