Deputy Broughan said, “Minister Dempsey’s announcement this morning that the current 410,000 level of broadband subscribers has “smashed the target I set with several months to spare” is disingenuous in the extreme.
“The Minister’s original target in his Department’s 2004 broadband policy directive was for 500,000 subscribers by mid-2005 and 600,000 plus subscribers by the end [...]

Friday as promised, 8 of us in our apartment got together to make a huge meal. The first course was apple curry soup, followed by filled breadrolls, then salad, then lasagne topped off with pancakes and ice-cream….pictures to follow soon.
Afterwards we played “Activity 2″ – a cross between charades and pictionary but with a board [...]

Jack!
Which “Lost” character are you?

A blog on interesting things in Berlin in english.
This is quite amusing for anyone who has been to college…or not: the show with zefrank. It’s a few megs i guess but it gets funnier towards the middle.
Cats can do amazing things: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5r5f8ekDxQ
An online Etymology dictionary
and finally, is this amusing or has the world gone mad?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/239195904/ [...]

My place in Germany is fine, I’m just a little worried about the houses at home!
THE National Roads Authority have admitted “questions need to be answered” after a cottage was mistakenly demolished this week without the knowledge of its owners.
see Irish Independent, The Limerick Leader and The Nenagh Guardian

I’ve started reading Damien Mulley’s blog, and Ireland Offline campaigner and topical blogger. But it led to a worrying thought – is ComReg both a shield and PR group for the government? They told a Dail committee that line failure rates were “are broadly in line with our experience” but it couldn’t be much further [...]

I have indeed been working hard and I’m very happy in my new role. The weekend was again a time for socialising with friends – this time we went for Becks on Friday – twice.
The following day involved relaxing, some light cooking and shopping for front and rear lights for my bicycle. They are now [...]

Well quite a few momentous events have occurred – Steve Irwin was involved in an accident with a Stingray. It’s a terrible thing to have happened. A certain amount of danger is involved in dealing with animals and fish but it was a freak accident from the information I’ve gotten.
Mary Harney has stepped down as [...]

After that mad weekend all I did was move into a new apartment (for 1 month) and find another for the following 5-6 months, visited an old-berlin pub in Neukölln, an area known as little Istanbul and not lovingly so…we got out safe and well anyways without even a hint of trouble and went [...]