Noel Dempsey is buying his re-election for €1.8 billion. Is he worth it? And what does that say about Irish politics. From the Sunday Business Post. 
Transport minister Noel Dempsey has intervened in a controversial pylon dispute by calling on EirGrid to re-route the high voltage lines underground along the new M3 motorway in Meath. Dempsey, [...]

There is a famous story about pens. Picture the scene. Russian space agency and NASA or having a chat at some space conference.Lets call the Russian Igor and the American Buddy.
Buddy: We have come up with a great way of solving the writting in space problem. You know how pens don’t write upside down as [...]

This truly is dream makling stuff, echoing plot lines from James Bond movies as a wealthy entrepreneur breaks down the barriers in what a private citizen can achieve, though hopefully without plans for world domination. Richard Branson yesterday unveiled plans for ther launch of Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship. Read here coverage of the launch at [...]

Alas I haven’t won a Wii from Science Week :(. But one thing that it did highlight to me was how little actual science there is out in the Irish Blogosphere. Other then James . I can’t think of anyone that actually blogs much about science which is a shame. So I will try to [...]

It is day three of Science Week Ireland. With everyone gunning for a Wii.
So todays question is what gadget do you want to buy next.
To tell you the truth I am not much of a gadget person. To me science is about understanding the world, understanding how stuff works. That is what I get my [...]

So Science week day 2. Todays question is
What invention do you want to see most in the future?
Inventions of the future is a very tricky question to answer. Because it takes place in our current understanding. Back in the 19th century a futurologist predicted that the streets of New York would be at the [...]

Damien Mulley the info king for all things blogging informs us that Science Week Ireland is running a competition of blog posts. To write about various science topics. Now I am not the kind of person they want entering this. Science Week is about promoting science getting young people to think of doing it and [...]