Enda does the bell tolls for thee ?
On Irishelection

Looks like Kevin Myres could be earing up to €200,000 for a weekly column for the indo. Good work if you and get it. By the way any newspapers wants to give me €200,000 drop me an email.

It is worth a shot.:)

Just posted this Ireland’s Neutrality do we need to change? On Irish Election.
Basically the question and point is should we change Irelands triple lock system away from a UN mandate to a EU mandate. I am turning off comments on this one so if you have a comment to make please make it on […]

the failing standard of Honours MathsEducation in Ireland is becoming Machiavellian activity. In a piece in today’s Irish Independent about the falling standards in Honours Maths this line jumped out at me.

There is also a decline in the capacity of candidates to engage with problems that are not of a well-rehearsed type.

Now […]

You know what grinds my gears, the pathetic state that television is in these days.

What has happened to televison? I’ll tell you what has happened; ‘We’ happened. We’ve gotten lazy. We see TV only as a source of cheap, lazy amusement. We don’t like to be challenged by TV whether it be drama, […]

Anyone ele scared by this?

Also a BBC Documentary

The national Treatment register. Over 2604 people are waiting over a year for surgery.

I had this earlier on Irish Election.
Wexford is not my area so someone else can probably give a better prediction then this. The biggest problem for Colm O’Gorman taking a seat in Wexford will be the lack of a political organisation in Wexford for the PD’s not since 1989 have they contested a Dail seat […]

Interesting paper from the American Joint Forces Quarterly. America’s strategic imperative: a “Manhattan Project” for energy.
One of the points.
Biorefineries also hold great prom­ise for urban areas. A typical large city has a substantial surplus of yard waste and wood debris, products that can no longer be deposited in landfills. New York and Philadelphia […]

Slugger has the news of the latest IMC report.
Key quote
It notes
“that where members of PIRA had engaged in acts of violence this appeared to be contrary to the instructions of the leadership and that certain PIRA units were closing down criminal operations, although some members were still involved in serious organised crime”. […]