I remember writing about how moving to Dublin was a possibility and how I was uneasy about joining the rat race and generally finding my way in what I held to be a quagmire of expense, delay and a life full of effort. Two months in and the upheaval never really happened, I got the [...]

After my adventures with Aer Arann on Friday on Sunday I spent an Hour and a half on the runway in Heathrow because the engine starter was not working. Not my week for flying.

I am writing this offline at the moment in a cheap B&B in Luton. Why am I in a B&B in Luton you ask? Well basically due to Aer Arann

I was in Galway last week on a conference thingy and decided to fly back to England not to my nearest airport Gatwick via Shannon [...]

Link to Irish Times story.

I’ve been reading a little about the influence Hollywood has on American politics. It naturally all comes down to money and the Hollywood machine does earn California its high ranking amongst the biggest economies in the world. Star power is all important for raking in the big bucks, Barbara Streisand has been one of the [...]

Pointless news story of the day.
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With ‘Studio 60’ being essentially stillborn, its humour and topics neither appealing to audiences or critics, it’s been announced the show won’t be back for a second series. Never fear, Tina Fey, who as far as I know is the first woman of ‘Saturday Night Live’ to make a name for herself, is stepping outside [...]

Tomorrow, RTE2 in the spirit of presuming that people have no jobs or desire to sleep are showing a movie that has been on my list of ‘keeping meaning to see that movie’ for a while now. ‘Goodbye Lenin’ is on at 12.10, telling the story of a son trying to keep from his mother [...]

I read with a bit of shock the other day in the Sunday Independent an article about J.J Kavanagh coaches. For those of you that don’t know them, Kavanaghs are the largest private bus company in the state and run buses from Dublin to Limerick and around the midlands. He was talking about his business [...]

It strikes me that Israel is the biggest PR machine in the world. There is no event that there are not contradictions of, arguments of who fired the first shot, choice terminology, history being rapidly rewritten in the moments after any number of incidents. I sat at a dinner table once where it was argued [...]