A Better Deal for Young Drivers – Young Fine Gael Campaign

Is it Time to Boycott People In Need and finish it off?
– a discussion
The telethon emphasizes the desperate helplessness of the most severely disabled. In doing so, it reinforces the public’s tendency to equate handicap with total hopelessness.

and check out the official RTE People In Need Telethon page.

In other news – the University of [...]

The Lebanese Cedar in front of Plassey House has been dead for the past few years. The tree has now to be removed for safety reasons.

Biofuels ‘Emit More Greenhouse Gases than Fossil Fuels’
Did your county make the new All-Ireland Monopoly board?
20 things we’ve learned from the Rugby World Cup
Potsdamer Platz is up for sale! (nod to Eddie Hobbs et. al).
Via Danny – Why Democracy Film
A corporate conspiracy to silence alternative medicine?
How the Green Party and Eamon Ryan are doing more [...]

The “Save Our Slots” rally was on in Limerick yesterday – to sum up; Willie O’Dea (FF) didn’t have the balls to show up, John Cregan (FF) was booed off the stage and Timmy Dooley (FF) was hiding in the crowd. Kieran O’Donnell (FG), Jan O’Sullivan (LAB), councillors, trade union reps and personalities such as [...]

Shannon Heathrow Rally is on Sat 20th (tomorrow) at 1pm on O’Connell St*
O’Dea cartoon #1
O’Dea cartoon #2
O’Dea cartoon #3
Government cartoon #1
Government cartoon #2
In other news:
An Irish Transport Map (especially the first comment)
Minister raids broadband fund for €10m to bail out energy conservation schemes overspend – Coveney
OR Broadband money re-routed to SEI scheme by Ryan
Seven [...]

The fun-run is on the horizon again so I donned the shoes and ran 3 miles last Sunday. It was a nice day for it but I wasn’t feeling too fit. Hopefully this weekend I’ll go better and further…
The blurb about the fun-run:
It’s that time of year again the annual Christmas “fun run” and we [...]

Clever dog – Bertie Ahern has €300,000 worth of payments that he can’t explain. So he gives lots of confusing explanations. Try as you might to piece everything together, the story changes on an weeky and monthy basis summed up by judge Mahon:
polar opposite accounts
The sums still don’t add up and even the special formula [...]

This is a video of CD launch featuring a live performance by members of Cruinniú, accompanied by Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin of the Irish World Academy on piano.

Crúinniú is a newly-released CD, recorded by the group of the same name, consisting of staff members from across the University of Limerick.
Cruinniú came about as an [...]

A sombre and almost bewildered looking Garda Superintendant John Kerin faced the media today and in a red faced statement told how armed Gardai from The states Emergency Response Unit along with local armed and uniformed Gardai were just yards from the scene of the fatal shooting of 25 year old Gareth Grant last night. [...]