Year: 2004

“The likely death of the video recorder – as reflected in the decision of Dixons not to stock them any more because of the popularity of DVDs – will come as a post-dated relief for millions of adults who claimed never to be able to programme them in the first place. But if they think…

“After 10 years at the helm of Ireland’s dominant political party, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern marked the occasion recently with a surprising revelation – a political coming out of sorts – that has had Ireland in a spin. His declaration was as simple as it was unexpected: ‘I am one of the few socialists left…

so I didnt blog for 10 days busy at work n stuff but I could have been sobing over Bush getting 4 more years, there’s no justice is there I thought, then Phantom FM get a rock radio licence for Dublin and there is justice, im confused, delighted and pissed off. To the lads at…

but how many times has he died this week? Its 4am and the press wire AP has issued the news that the PLO leader has died. A week ago Prez Bush was told in a live press conference that the Palestinian leader had died and it was taken as a fact but it turned out…

but this is not an october surprise, the real surprise will be on Nov3 Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has aired a videotape in which Osama Bin Laden threatens fresh attacks on the US. The leader of the al-Qaeda network says the reasons behind the events of 11 September 2001 still exist. Americans go to the…

the number of people listening to radio in ireland has risen 3% in the latest JNLR survey. small minority stations are pushing up the figure! time to licence all aplications sent to the BCI, there is no good reason left to exclude new stations entering the spectrum. more from radiowaves.fm

Legendary broadcaster John Peel of the BBC died yesterday while on aworking holiday in Peru. He will be sadly missed. Thank you for themusic.radio rewind

for radio from the US thats not owned by big business and thats leftof centre try RBN and Air America Radio I’ve been listening to air america for some months via the online stream, and the focus is on Nov 2nd in a big way, I found RBN tonight, in a strange kind of way,…

if its Bertie Ahern or Kofi Annan, you’re sure to find the hardline questions comming in from Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins. From time to time we will give space in this blog to “joe blogs” the comments questions and writing of dublin west TD Joe Higgins. from a recent Irish Independent article on an…