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RTE give a good summary here of the winners at last nights Emmys.

The Irish Times goes for the tabloid headline today with Marriage breakdown up 500% in last 20 years. I know I go on about it again but will somebody please give journalists a course in statistics. 500% rise suggests that Ireland in recent years has turned into a haven of marriage breakdown with kids [...]

I may aswell be trying to empty the ocean in trying to pick just six selections that would satisfy everyone’s favourite bits of dialogue. Even as I write entries from movies such as ‘The American President’, ‘The Big Lebowski’ and ‘Fight Club’ are running through my head but as ever I will stay true to [...]

I always like songs that have a story behind them. Maybe it goes back to the traditional Irish storytelling thing. Or maybe they are just nice. Here is one of my favourites. Where Do You Go To My Lovely by Peter Sarstedt

There are many theories about who the song is about, Sophie Loren being one [...]

The IE Domain Registry has announced the relaxation of registering personal ‘.ie’ domain names for individuals.

Therefore, from Wednesday, October 31, individuals will be able register their personal domains, as long at they can prove a claim to the domain name and have a ’substantive connection to the island of Ireland’.

The announcement means that sole traders, [...]

I’m sure I’ve been there before, though I don’t have any concrete memories to ascertain this fact, so to begin I will say to day was my first time in Dublin Castle. Viewing its entrance on Dame Street it seems something unsubstantial could be held behind it, this is far from the truth though as [...]

Happy New Year to any Ethiopian readers. While for the rest of us today is 11 September 2007, in Ethiopia, which runs on a unique Coptic calendar more than seven years behind our Gregorian calendar, it is a far more auspicious day: New Year’s Eve, 1999. The Coptic Orthodox Church, founded in AD451, has more [...]

A list of last meals eaten by inmates executed in Texas. A lot of burgers there.

I can’t remember the last time I met someone interesting or had someone at least say something interesting in my presence. Maybe its the company I am keeping these days but I’m particularly uninspired by my surrounds and in danger of feeling unfulfilled. So I turn to President Bartlett and the single scene that made [...]