I’ve been nominated for Best Politics Blog and Best News/Current Affairs Blog and Best Personal Blog in this years Irish Blog Awards. Along with 135 others I’ve also been nominated for Best Blog. That’s a few too many nominations for a smooth judging process. (Poor Damien, he’ll need more that a few gins to get [...]
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Dear Irish based Cyclist. That yoke I am sitting in is a mobility scooter for people with disabilities/walking difficulties. You are supposed to be on the road or on the cycle path – I am on the footpath. When I cross the road and the man is green and beeps go or indeed am on [...]
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I rang the HSE press office this afternoon to get the full scéal so to speak. I spelt out my blog name to the nice man on the phone and he said he’d be back to me. And true to form (ok ok not true to form at all…) Surprise surprise… They rang me back [...]
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More leaks than a colander has become the discovery of the long list for the Irish Blog Awards 2008. What do I find but the long list for the Best Specialist Blog. The full list and how you get judged etc. will be available tomorrow on Awards.ie Best Specialist Blog In order of nomination date: [...]
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Maman Poulet pat’s her crystal ball and strokes her cat. RTE’s BB provider have been pointed this direction for over a week as it is, and it was busy this morning. From RTE news… Report on former AIT lecturer expected Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:05 RTÉ News has learned that a report into the controversy [...]
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When is a long-awaited report done being long-awaited? Jan O’Sullivan T.D. asks about the whereabouts of the overdue reports from the HSE into recent Cancer Scandals. In particular she mentions The report of the Ann O’Doherty review of into cases of suspected breast cancer mis-diagnosis in Portlaoise. Due to be published in November 2007 – [...]
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Shane Hegarty writing about blogging and nastyness and commenters in particular wonders about heterosexual male privilege. In particular he wonders if women bloggers do attract particular nastiness; and with reference to the practice of commenting generally how much the anonymity allowed by comments threads gives people licence to be homophobic, racist or sexist; and whether [...]
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Well as it gets a bit hot over there on the campaign trail (and rather dirty) Hilary is answering questions from the young people in an attempt to woo them as they all desert her for Obama. They’ve twittered the questions in and emailed them seemingly. It’s refreshing to see a candidate talk about something [...]
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Update: You know the way newspapers give away free CD’s? Well this post is especially for readers of the Sunday Tribune today – you are all welcome to the show. Thanks to Una. Track 1 of Michael Lynn’s Greatest hits (my title for the CD which I’ve had in my CD player now for nearly [...]
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I’m sick and tired of men. I’ve had enough of their whining and this does not apply to John Waters. (But I bet he gets in on the act too!) Why when responding to the announcement of a campaign to encourage people (of all genders) to campaign for women’s health care and in particular access [...]
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