Seriously are this government just trying to make themselves seem worse? They sent out a briefing document to Fianna Fail TD’s on the Shannon controversy to I guess persuade people that it was a good thing. One of the points
the Government’s refusal to intervene in the Aer Lingus controversy protected the airline’s share price.

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The ourtube video on the news recently about Limerick

Capitalist attitudes and economic growth triumphed in England because those with such attitudes came to predominate in the population by biological means. The modern English are the descendants of the upper classes of the preindustrial world, those who prospered economically. The poor disappeared. This process was most likely cultural, but we cannot exclude the possibility […]

Here is another one of those pointless lists doing the rounds, this time of couples who failed to light up the screen with their chemistry. I would definitley add Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte, who had an famously bad relationship off screen, with this tension seeping onto the screen in ‘I Love Trouble’, itself a […]

Hat Tip AnthonyMcg

The Dossing Times crew regrouped this weekend to view the wreckage left following Tuathal’s departure from our fair blog this past fortnight. The chosen venue was the rambling hills of Slane however our intended withdrawl from the mania of city life, analysing hypotheses in physics and rambling around the halls of our heads to come […]

This picture is likely to be taken off the internet pretty soon, seemingly it hasn’t been officially released. The Joker’s image has been revealed in stages to date but here he is in all his deranged glory.

So we’re talking food, tastes and dining experiences here, something as unique to the individual as our retinas I feel. There aren’t any pictues, there’s just no point trying to muster up the sensation of a good meal other than thinking about it and sitting down to it.

Spare Ribs: Last year travelling around New Zealand […]

Edit: The Dossing Times crew are going to be in Slane. SO I thought I would bump this up. I am particular looking forward to some Guinness. It is so bad this side of the Irish Sea
The Rolling Stones tickets went on sale this morning and, eventually, sold out. Tickets were still available well after […]

The CSO has released figures stating almost 1/6 of private dwellings in the state are unoccupied. The 2006 census found there are 1,769,613 homes in the State, and of those, 174,935 were vacant houses, 41,598 were vacant flats or apartments and 49,789 were holiday homes. The number of vacant homes amounts to 15 per cent […]