Headlines from the last 24 hours. Minister’s county gets twice as much sports funding €1bn in funding for social housing announced Government increases funding for sports clubs Earnings threshold for lone parents increased The Govt. cant really be accused of buying the election, not yet, they have been saving for the election, last year the…
Category: politics
citizens of ireland
has the new met eireann website brought us better weather? i was scraping Dublin weather for 3 years and all of a June 1st it stopped. where is the xml feeds? site design was by fusio. and very nice it is. but where is the XML. are the met to busy with toll numbers to…
Des Bishop on Noam Chomsky
Des Bishop on Noam Chomsky [Leviathan 05/06/2006] “Noam Chomsky says ‘There is the same disparity of wealth in Manhattan as Guatemala’ … Im not even a Chomsky fan I’m just quoting him to make the chicks think I’m into it. In America Chomsky gets you punched In Ireland Chomsky gets you laid”
Leviathan #5 is out
Final [random] thoughts before sleep
120,000 poles in Ireland (Talbot Street) and bog all polish blogs on irishblogs. Ireland is sunny once a year- feck off today was it. Why does this blog and others I communicate on get so many in bound hits for Polish this poland that. Is there a man in poland organising the mass Exodus. You…
new national anthem
The national anthem was written in English and translated to Irish. were stealing in back my way of re translation and a modernisation, We are Fianna Fail; We’re not egalitarian, We’ve ripped off you, a lot ruined, & more to do. Every things for sale Buy now, we’re selling faster Send money in brown paper…
at seventeen
” Remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debentures of quality and dubious integrity Their small town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen” What was a rushed piece of legislation appeared rushed this morning as what was promised…
Bernie Goldbach Netvisionary
Bernie Goldbach for Netvisionary 2006 – vote early & often BFG wotre this piece for ENN in Aug 2002. taken from http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=8580068 As they embrace and use blogging software, some Irish developers acknowledge that the CMS industry have over-built their content management models. Three years ago Brian Greene, technical director at Doop Design, coded his…
Martin Brady TD on da radio/TV
I have been on Near FM a lot recently speaking about Sellafield Mobile Phone Radiation x 2 Podcasting Aer Lingus May 7th was on Aer Lingus, I was on air to wish Aer Lingus a happy 70th birthday and tell the radio listeners on DNS (dee north side) what the Govt. of the day are…