just got a nice note from the guys at www.irishblogs.ie/ who are listing irish blogs as they publish, nice one!. It reminds me that I don?t have a blog roll (or bog roll, must go to lidl on me way home) I don?t have track backs and dont have comments turned on all that often…

The Government has decided to allow a Leaving Cert student who was deported to Nigeria last week to return for six months to complete his studies. Earlier this week, Justice Minister Michael McDowell flatly rejected calls for Olunkunle Eluhanla to be allowed to return to Ireland. However, at a hastily arranged press conference this morning,…

In announcing the Wolfowitz appointment today, President Bush said the World Bank is a big organization and Wolfowitz has experience running a big organization, the Pentagon!! As far as the military-industrial complex is concerned, Wolfowitz did a FANTASTIC job. He was only expected to plan for a $30 billion war and he screwed up so…

When money mixes with sport the end result is not so sporting. The Captain, Brian Lara, and six other senior West Indies cricketers have not been invited to play in the home series against South Africa and Pakistan despite making their individual sponsorship contracts available for scrutiny. The seven were not selected because of a…

Residents of Baldoyle in Dublin 13 are celebrating a victory against a Mobile Phone Giant Hutchison 3G (H3G) who must now remove 2 masts from the roof of their local football club. The masts were installed in October 2004 and a local campaign against their installation was mounted. Finally the masts must be taken down…

ComReg is required to issue a licence to the RTÉ Authority for the transmission ofits programme services under the Broadcasting Authority Act 1960 as amended.The Licence must also conform, with the new EU regulatory framework.In summary: The Licence permits the transmission of RTÉ radio and televisionservices. (2005 – 2012) The Licence is being renewed for…

Ive been busy on the community campaign front of late so apols for less blog posts, Ive stumbled onto CW RTTY and HF Fax as I get ready to do DRM decode in my radio shack, the wierd thing is I should have done this years ago, back in the 386 days of computing I…

Microsoft and Viagra maker Phizer have teamed up to sue Viagra spammers. It was announced yesterday that Microsoft and Pfizer will become partners to slow down the Viagra spam that MSN users receive. —all legal attempts to slow down spam are failing, what is needed is a technology solution to slow it down, I don’t…

Dublin to have new TV station by mid-2005 The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has awarded a licence for a new television station for Dublin, to be called City Channel, which could be broadcasting by the summer. Backed by media entrepreneur David Harvey and a group of as-yet-unnamed investors, the station will initially be available…