PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NO. 35 Dail Eireann To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the RTÉ Network Limited will begin transmission of UK public service broadcasts on the SaorView system to complete the reciprocation as envisaged in the MoU (details supplied).. – Clare Daly. For…
Category: Uncategorized
this TV’s tuner dies October 24th – Long live the TV
Digital Switch Over (DSO) or Analogue Switch Off (ASO) is happening October 24th 2012 at 10am. 11 days to go. Then this TV “tuner” will die, well it wont die but over the air signals from legal sources¹ will not be exciting its Belling-Lee² connector after that date. This TV was lovingly carried around the…
CIA role in split suggested by WP [June 1992]
read the last paragraph and look at the Labour leadership of late.
how the FF/PD govt in 1992 fiddled the unemployment figures down to 16% from 21%
south africa miners & the ANC
ANC press release http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=9867 no mention of the police shooting dead 34 strikers no mention of the invoking of ‘doctrine of common purpose’ apartheid era law where 270 strikers were charged with the murder of the 34 the police had gunned down. (charges later dropped by the police because the lunacy of such a law…
wage cuts for competitiveness sake is simply a lie
Competitiveness is ranked globally on 111 indicators. One of those indicators is wages. The Central banks focus in yesterday’s Q4/12 report on wage restraint is completely bogus to have it focus (headline grabber from exec summary) on one item, wage cost. Wage cost accounts for 2% of the overall measurement of competitiveness. Ireland ranks 27th in a…
The real reason Dr. Reilly added 15 primary care centres: EXPLAINED
Regina Doherty TD (Fine Gael) explains Dr. Reilly’s reason for adding the extra 15 centres (with no fixed criteria) to the first list of 20. The reason is: developers can’t profit from health in deprived areas Speaking on RTE’s Today with Pat Kenny on Thursday morning Regina Doherty TD said (use cue point number 1 below once…
Evening Press & Eircom Call Cards
what was selling when the shop in Rosslare closed – Evening Press & Eircom Call Cards See the full gallery on Posterous
same old iron same old Irish irony – Rosslare Post Box
See the full gallery on Posterous This is the post box at Rosslare Harbour Wexford Republic of Ireland. It is a Edwardian (King Edward VII) painted green. The irony is that these very post boxes were being painted gold for gold medal winners in the UK from the 2012 Olympics. But not if the Olympian was…