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Northern Ireland’s 582 council seats are to be decidedThe first results in the Northern Ireland council elections are now in.Counting to determine who will claim the 582 council seats got under way at 0900 BST.A total of 918 candidates are contesting the seats across the province’s 26 council areas.—did I read that right? you have…

I did a quick lookup on the cost of mobile data from the 3 current carriers in Ireland and the table below lays out the range of costs I found for downloading a 33MB file. I was prompted to look at this as USA podcatchers are listening to podcasts on GSM via ‘all you can…

GAMA managers have taken 230 striking workers off their payroll and are trying to starve them into submission. The workers, who held a protest march yesterday afternoon to the Turkish firm?s headquarters in Santry, Dublin, said they have not received food yesterday and were also being threatened with eviction from their accommodation. Socialist Party leader…

Newstalk’s claim that the piece was an “evolving element” in the show is comic in itself. Do BCC decisions give leave to on air apologies? NT106 did get the Cardinal Ratzinger piece correct in historical(?) terms. I have not heard this piece of raido sketch, I wonder what Mitchell McLoughlin and Jeffrey Donaldson said on…

On Saturday afternoon I attended the ÉIST – Great Radio Debate “Radio in the iPOD Age” speakers wereCelene Craig, Deputy Chief Executive and Secretary Broadcasting Commission of IrelandAndrea Martin, Media LawyerWillie O’ Reilly, Chief Executive Today fmKieran Mc Geary, Chief Executive Beat 102 103Fiona Stack, Editor Newstalk 106 The event was poorly attended (15 people)…

The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland. (Wikipedia)8<The British worked slowly, unsure of how many they were up against, and put their efforts into securing the approaches to Dublin Castle and isolating the headquarters at the GPO, before the gunboat Helga shelled large parts of the city and burned much of it down. 8<The…

I said some really nice things about my XDA in my most recent podcast. Like it knows how to crash, no blue screen, it crashes and 99% of the time it just needs a soft reset and its back on track. Then tonight when I least needed it to crash it crashes big time. A…

As a two thirds majority is needed, the Croke Park Grab All Association will decide today if Soccer & Rugby will be played on its turf. It has hosted Oz Rules and American Football, Neil Diamond, U2, Lou Reed, Simple Minds. A wonderful stadium part paid by our taxes (through the consent of the elected…