John Aravosis of Americablog has just posted pics of President Clinton’s lunch earlier today with a group of bloggers in his office in Harlem. Clinton ‘gets’ blogging. On this side of the pond we have still to see who in Irish politics really gets blogging. Blogging the Election in the Digitalhub (very nice digs!) on [...]
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Readers of the old blog might remember my interest in loins being girded. Well Maman Poulet is at it again in her interest in the loins region of the male anatomy. Belkin have launched these new products for laptop users – aimed at all genders but of particular interest to men in my humble inexperienced [...]
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Unlike Joe Jaffe’s (eejit) demands of Adam Curry I am not looking for link love (especially as my own blogroll is up the creek without a paddle as I try to sort out my template etc.) MacKozer beings us Ireland from a Polish Perspective. It’s a good read and brings a much needed voice to [...]
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Be still my beating heart!! Caroline tells us that Rachel Allen returns to our screens with a new series. I can hardly wait! Rachel seems to be conquering the world if the searches to my old blog seem anything to go by. On a Saturday in particular I have visits from the UK and the [...]
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No it’s another think-in. This time it’s Sinn Fein working their brains. And aren’t they glad they picked a Friday to rejuvenate the cells within their craniums (crania?). Gerry Adams dismissed Mary Harney’s retirement as leader of the PD’s as politically irrelevant – doubt you would have been saying that yesterday Gerry if your think-in [...]
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As you will see from today’s announcement on Irishelection.com, myself, Cian, Mick and Damien have been a bit busy and aim to be more so for the next month. Damien and Mick post here and here about the event. My own take on it all? The Blogging the Election conference will be as unconference as [...]
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Is there an election due soon or something? (insert ironic smile here!) In years gone by September was a month for back to school stories, the junior cert results and booze ups, the All Ireland and the Combined Rules series. If we are really lucky there would be a bit of an ‘Indian’ summer. Towards [...]
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Everywhere you go there are the ads with Paddy looking serious for O2 or Paul looking joyous for Allianz. (Am sure that sponsor is breathing a big sigh of relief that Paul qualified at the weekend.) The event is being hyped and today’s Irish Times says that the figures predicted for revenue intake were inflated. [...]
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There was an interesting report on Sky News tonight examining the issue of low pay in the hotel sector. An undercover reporter was sent to work in the Jury’s Doyle Inn in Southampton where he was paid £1.80 per room cleaned and with 6 hours work per day was earning far less than the minimum [...]
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Karen Coleman returned from her summer break to Newstalk 106 this weekend and today’s programme included a discussion on access to IVF for single women and lesbian couples. Earlier this week the British Fertility Service recommended access to IVF treatment under the NHS for single women and lesbian couples. The discussion included input of Dr. [...]
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