Update – I’m reading the report and using this section to include extracts of interest to me and potentially of interest to readers – my own views and opinions on the report will be published in a subsequent post. Please note that the length of this post you will have to click on the Continue [...]
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About 4 months late and a few lawyers and threats of legal challenges later. You like me can read it here. I’ll be back later! And later… My own extracts from my first reading of interest to me and potentially of interest to readers Other responses to the report : Statement from the HSE Response [...]
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“We need to protect our children from the advertising of food products which are high in sugar, fats or salts. This will help parents in their task of raising our children well.�? So said Eamon Ryan in his speech to the Green Party Conference today. Our hostess Liz when reading this out to me said [...]
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All eyes turn to Dundalk on the political front this weekend. They have a conference blog (looking forward to hearing from the Green Party Gay and Lesbian bloggers this weekend!) And they have a conference flickr stream as you can see from Minister Gormley’s smiling face. And they have guest speakers…including Ann Louise Gilligan and [...]
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Bertie Ahern says that the media don’t seem to care much for parliamentary reporting anymore? Deaglan De Bréadún (subs. required) reporting a speech yesterday by Mr. Ahern says that the media are more interested in celebrity than parliament. …In an address to the Irish Parliamentary (former members) Society at Leinster House, Mr Ahern said politicians [...]
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Many US blogs are all agog at an article in the New York Times today which deals with the perceived stress faced by US bloggers especially those who are paid to blog full time or otherwise make money from blogging. It’s all overly morbid and I think some of the families of those who have [...]
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As promised earlier this week and I know it’s old news now but posterity and all that! The infamous interview that Senator Eoghan Harris gave on the Last Word on Wednesday when Bertie fell on his sword – and Harris’s spat with Michael Clifford. (I’ve also learnt how to cut and edit audio files tonight [...]
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Last years holiday reading included some blooks (blogs turned into books). One blog I came across a few years ago was Random Acts of Reality – the blog of a paramedic. After the blog came the book – Blood, Sweat and Tea by Tom Reynolds. I enjoyed it even if it was difficult/different reading a [...]
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A new non technical or legal term to refer to a dodgy member of the legal profession. It seems we have a new Buachall Dána (bold boy) whom the Law Society are trying to deal with. Paul Anthony McDermott appearing for the Law Society in a case before the High Court today said that the [...]
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I’m searching for the audio on the soon to be legendary interview with Eoghan Harris this evening on the Last Word on Today FM – but Anthony at Public Enquiry has the transcript. (Blogs might have helped a bit and talked about it and done the sums but as for the rest I think we’d [...]
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