The Dossing Times

There is a new a Social Networking site. Based in Limerick. Not So Daft is the name.

So here I am a bogger from Tipp living in the heart of the English establishment Oxford. My office even has a view of a cricket pitch. Yes jolly good sport old bean and all that pa-larva.
I remember back at school when people were talking about where they wanted to go to Uni or work. People talked about [...]

George Lee resigning has sparked a bit of a debate in Ireland about the body politic. Much of it has been about whether he was driven by his ego over not getting enough of an input. This argument is a odd because this is what we want in Irish politics indeed expect from a politician. Too many politicians in Ireland tow [...]

The Eiffel Tower, The Colosseum, Buckingham Palace, The Empire State building architecture matters. Buildings are so much more then just vessels for housing their contents, they are symbols that represent the cities and the countries that they are part of. Without architecture city breaks, the delight of the middle class, would be far less common. People visit [...]

Leo Varadkar raised the spectre of tax individualisation the other day. Some have talked about Leo Varadkar being lonely I will focus on the idea of tax individualisation. Tax individualistion was a hot topic around the 1999 budget. The idea was basically rather then taxing a married couple as a couple they would tax the individuals thus reducing the [...]

In Fridays Independent Dearbhail McDonald wrote an opinion piece.
Justice must be done — and be seen to be done
PUBLICITY is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. So said the English jurist and legal reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1843.
Although the public’s understanding [...]

A friend of mine has a new blog Fuzzy Times. http://fuzzytimes.wordpress.com/ check it out.

There was an interesting side in the Irish Times.

60% have lost jobs in architectural firms
As many as 60 per cent of employees at architectural practices in Ireland have lost their jobs over the past two years, according to a new survey undertaken by the recruitment firm Hays.
In Dublin, the figure is slightly higher with 61 [...]

Interesting press release today.
Fine Gael Seanad Justice Spokesperson, Senator Eugene Regan, has lodged a formal objection to NAMA with the EU Commission in Brussels, saying the ‘scale and scope’ of the scheme is disproportionate to the size of the Irish economy, transfers too much risk from the banks onto the Irish taxpayer and does not [...]