The Tánaiste and Minister for Health, Mary Harney, has said private hospitals will be used to allow people waiting a long period for public outpatient appointments with consultants, to be seen faster. Private hospitals like St. X in Dublin 13 are taking patients from Public Hospital (10 minutes away) to carry out year old operations.…

While shopping at Tesco this morning I noticed a Tesco own brand 16 piece dinner set for £6.97 or €13.99. £6.97 equals €10.14, that is €3.85 less than the listed price. I fully respect Tesco’s right to set prices, its rare we see the differential at all, good to note the price hike. I chose…

This takes me back to my youth, no l’m not old enough to remember big L first time round, but 1980’s caroline + laser558 I do remember. So when I left for work on tuesday @ 10am I was tuned to newstalk106, when I turned on the radio at 1.50am wanting to tune in 909khz…

Turkish workers have rejected the LRC proposal to return to work to allow further discussion on unpaid overtime wages from the construction company GAMA. The workers claim that the group of 85 strikers would be scattered around the country on different GAMA sites and would be subjected to intimidation to give up their claim for…

I heard Lyric FM was podcasting, so I went online to seek it out, looking for an RSS feed with enclosures, that’s the marker with which I think an audio archive becomes a podcast. But I found no RSS perhaps there never was one, I can’t find the MP3 either perhaps the link was taken…

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along with the issue of Gama being lost in the Kebab wrapper, the issue or Dublin Airport/Aer Lingus was the question that Joe Higgins was asking when the circus began. Fine Lenihan is unfit for his office but the media and new media are off the track of the big story. If you want racism…

in the future I look forward to podcatching Broadcasting House (Radio 4 with Fi Glover)as I am never awake at 9am on a Sunday morning. Dr. Karl from Up All Night (Radio Five Live) as sometimes I sleep before 3am Thursday Phantom FM’s AnorakHour.com as Im sure phantom will return us this great show Podcasting…

The media circus over Conor Lenihan TD’s remark that Joe Higgins (Socialist Party Member) should “stick to the kebabs” continues Thursday. While all this was happening on Wednesday, GAMA and the workers failed to agree a no victimisation return to work. SIPTU who had a ballot of 99% in favour of strike took the 6…