Don’t ask me where I got the energy – plenty of Döners and a good night’s sleep (well, in a 14/16 bed room you will be woken now and then) I was up early to get to the Chancellor’s Office for the open day. This is the most popular destination and people come from all [...]

Aug 26 – okay, I was wrecked from the night before and I was very good – only 1 Berliner Pilsner but really tired so I slept in a bit. The A&O Hostel am Zoo is very cheap and in a great location for me. I went for the 3-day special incl. linen and a [...]

Aug 24 – fly to Berlin Schönefeld. Absolutely love the fact that there is a fast train connection directly to the main stations in Berlin taking 31 mins. There was, believe it or not, a 6 minute delay which they apologised for profusely. Cost:€2.10
Appartment I was planning to look at was taken , checked [...]

Well, it’s been a while since I wrote so lets break it down -
Aug 18th, Bid farewell to friends, packing and a short visit to the Tangoparty – thanks lads
Aug 19 – hauled myself up to Dublin
Aug 20 – Football in Croke Park, Hill 16

Kerry minors beat Donegal and do it [...]

Original post from Semper Idem
Back in March, Mary Hannafin claimed that FG’s proposals to make Irish optional for the leaving “would destroy the future of the language“. Given that, her call for colleges to remove the necessity for pass maths for access to 3rd level ever so slightly illogical.
Unless of course she is setting [...]

I missed Johnny Vegas on Podge and Rodge but here it is on youtube!
Also, did George W Bush grope Angela Merkel at the G8 summit or was he just being friendly? Jon Stewart of the Daily Show provides analysis and footage

To quote Matt Cooper in the Sunday Times
FOR a man who won popular support when he castigated the Irish government for its failure to spend our tax in the way that he saw fit, Bono now finds himself standing in a lonely place. Last week the rock-star-turned-campaigner was exposed for taking part in a decision [...]

I must say I like the apartment-search website wg-gesucht.de combined with map24.com and maps.google.com. But even handier is planning a route from any appartment to college/work by bicycle: BBBike. All you do is type in your starting and finishing streets for example:

Route from Platz der Republik to Alexanderplatz

Length:
3.27 km

Driving time:
0:22h (at 10 km/h),
0:15h (at 15 [...]

From the Irish Independent:
THE Health Service Executive has been spending €51,000 a year renting a building in Sligo which has been unoccupied for the past four years, it has been claimed.
on further examination, he [Cllr Declan Bree - Lab] discovered that the premises, which the HSE said was being used for the Orthopaedic fitting [...]

Irish Examiner Story
Wonderful – another me too project! It even reminds me of e-voting except this time we are supposed to be catching up.
WRONG: the irish postal system doesn’t need postal codes.
Why: there is a code for each building in the country. The database is not widely available and the codes are long but it [...]