There are only two episodes of ‘Lost’ left this year and last weeks episode ‘Cabin Fever’ well and truly lost the plot if you’ll forgive the pun. Tonight’s (Monday) episode is very much a scene setter -in unique ‘Lost’ style we have a sense of the end result but how it gets there, which will [...]

To me like most Thanks be to god was something said when you were glad about. When I was a kid at mass when the priest said at the end “go in peace and love an serve the lord”. and the people would reply “Thanks be to god”. I always found it reassuring that everyone [...]

Checking through the RTE sports news I was surprised to see this on the side of the page.
In case you can’t read it.
Shelbourne manager Dermot Keely talks to Séamus Leonard about promotion hopes, striker Anthony Flood and the porn potential of Max Cream..
Now if there was ever an article that just jumped out and [...]

In an interview to go out live on Yahoo, Bush has revealed how he gave up golf out of respect for the lives lost since the beginning of the war on Iraq in 2003.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I [...]

Along with Iron Man it could be said Speed Racer marks a trend of character actors being deployed to fill out roles in summer blockbusters this year. Any comparison between the two movies essentially ends here, though it’s fair to say Speed Racer does go some way to meeting the fun quotient required of silly [...]

From RTE
Leinster assistant coach David Knox has described the appointment of Declan Kidney as Irish Rugby coach, as ‘a big mistake’.
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In an interview with the Irish Independent, Australian coach Knox is very critical of the rugby played by Kidney’s Munster, insisting their triumphs come at the expense of any style or flair.
‘The Munster people think [...]

So before I ever began writing this post it occurred to me to double check whether rhubarb was a fruit or a vegetable - one of those instances where you doubt something that would normally be glaringly obvious - anyway its a vegetable. And a robust one at that, the house my family moved into [...]

From sporting life

Martin O’Neill has vowed to make Aston Villa an even more formidable force this summer after narrowly missing out on an automatic UEFA Cup spot.
Villa finished sixth in the Barclays Premier League despite operating with the smallest squad in the division.
They will now face opposition from either Northern Ireland, Finland or Denmark in [...]

Science in Ireland is not something that gets much coverage compared to the Arts that fill much of the Daily News papers and get supplements in the papers every week. Some people would put this down to Ireland not being a big science nation while being the nation of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats we seen [...]

The premier league is over and with it Fantasy Football. We here at the Dossing Times ran a league. We left it open by mistake so many non-blog readers joined it. Anyway out of the 257 people in the league. I won. Alas there is no prize. This year I came 20th out of the [...]