What a day, buying my new house today, shifting monies in bank accounts, wednesday is shopping day as Tuesday is waiting day, then off to the NCH for a photo shoot with Eleanor McEvoy (see flickr pic). Traffic was mental up the Quays and the Green is now gone all contra flow and you cant…

Dick (Turpin) Roche, the dandy highwayman is about to speed up the highway on the wrong side of the road (again). He has announced plans to ‘bye pass’ people and planners and go to the Govt. appointed Bord Pleanala for a quickie decision. It is proposed that large private sector transport, environmental and energy project…

Pat Rabbitte says“I also believe that we need new mechanisms to deal with this new type of crime, including some revised and adopted version of the UK system of anti-social behaviour orders.” Labour Youth says Michael McDowell wants to criminalise youth through the introduction of ASBOs. Anti-social behaviour is defined as “likely to cause harassment,…

I was in the local library this morning and the place was buzzing with pre leaving cert study groups. What struck me was that the groups were exclusively female. Are girls taking these exams more seriously than the boys? Year after year girls outperform boys in the results. Census figures show that more girls reach…

there is one TD in the Dail on a workers wage, and it gets me thinking why should TDs get fast tracked to Broadband? they like the rest of us should be in touch with reality, (the reality of how slow it is to get broadband in your area) then things might change in this…

while researching DVB-H I found this.—Espoo, Finland – Nokia Corporation announced today (25/05) that it allows all its patents to be used in the further development of the Linux Kernel. Nokia believes that open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation of technologies.8

Ryanair have struck out this weekend in Italy Confirmed Cancellations – Italian Strike 28.05.05Closure of Bari Airport – Sunday 29th May 2005Closure of Rome Ciampino Airport 31st May, 1st & 2nd June I can just imagine the bosses in Ryanair wondering, what?s a strike? Workers of the world, what? While they cannot be blamed for…

some points1. the gardai were in a camper van outside overnight2. gardai were inside the post office before the robbers (as i understand it, as the hammer was been put to the glass the gardai were on the inside with the post office staff)3. this was not part of anvil operation (so Bertie’s ‘weak kneed’…

isn’t it about time the smart dicks in the Dáil turned off their mobile phones, you see they are not supposed to have them turned on so they put them on silent; but if they are speaking and the phone is reaching for a cell or taking in a call or sending a txt and…