Rory Carroll journalist with the Guardian News paper has been kidnapped in Iraq. He had been interviewed by Pat Kenny earlier in the day (you can probably hear it here for the next week). His father a far Irish Times journalist was interviewed on TV today and seemed very much in control. He said that […]
With China now sending men into space is it time for Europe to do the same? In Europe we have the European Space Agency (ESA) which includes Ireland. In China the missions have come a symbol of great national pride leading to patriotic demonstrations and a coming together of its people. Also it has enhanced […]
Gavin has been talking about space weapons there and here. Here is my reply
had a big long reply and i lost it so here i have to write it again.
Rods of god is indeed an interesting phrase. The christian right are certainly in the marketing department. But what they are basically kintic energy […]
Of late I have been writing think pieces about various topics and not much on the various scandals that have hit the government. So I might as well.
Well the big one to hit is the PPARS. With the government spending €166 million euro on a computer system that did not work. With €70 million going […]
On my pervious post the comments seem to have turned to the issue of drinking hours. So not to be one to ignore an issue I’ll will put my thoughts here.
The argument for extended drinking hours is that this will reduce the amount of people leaving clubs at the same time, mixing and generally starting […]
Is Euronews to the EU what FoxNews is to the whitehouse?. I mean have you ever seen Euronews critise the Eu. Just look at this article. It just says to me bias.
We are now a multicultural country and therefore kids should be allowed to drink. Underage drinking maybe one of the worst traits of modern Ireland but we need to allow underage drinking. How you may wonder this should happen. Well in this country we now have people from France whose culture includes allowing children to […]
Irish Today (Gaeilge Inniu) is fundamentally changing. Gone are the days when the state was trying to change the national language to Irish. The aim of the Gaelic League has been like communism proved to be great in principle but utterly unworkable and its attempted implementation was in fact detrimental to the state. But also […]
Irish Ferries are stopping to use Irish Workers as they can get cheaper workers from Eastern Europe. It is reported that these will work at 3:60 an hour which is below the Irish minimum wage. They can do this I presume as they are flying under a different flag and thus are subject to the […]
What have Bus Eireann against time. Of all the bus Eireann buses I have been on the clock is never set correctly. Also my local bus service is always dirty and rarely on time. People in power wonder why people don’t use public transport well does kind of things are what turn people away from […]