Update: It’s just been confirmed that I was right. She stopped over to refuel and did not visit. Bloggers do the vetting again… So the Republican’s Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin has visited Ireland – this is listed as part of her foreign travel experience. She only got a passport last year and visited US [...]
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Haven’t we? Otherwise we’d all be thinking that Sarah Palin was a great choice by John McCain! A great choice for a President Barack Obama morelike ! She doesn’t like polar bears very much, didn’t know what a vice president does (obviously not watching the telly like we do!), she tried to get her brother [...]
…The way in which the words ‘gay’ or ‘sexual orientation’ are mentioned by every keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention. Michelle Obama, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Al Gore… Nothing from Joe Biden, the Catholic who scores well with gay rights activists. So Barak over to you. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, [...]
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The Leader of the ‘the Sisterhood of the travelling pantsuits’ told them all to go vote for Obama. If you like me gave in before she spoke and got some sleep – here’s the speech in full.
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From Monday’s Irish Times Speaking yesterday, she said bodies like the Equality Authority were set up to fight for and defend human rights in Ireland and “need to be invigorated, not pared down on the cheap�?. “There should be no erosion of the powers of these bodies,�? she said. “They should never be reduced by [...]
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Before post olympic blues have a minute to kick in, politics wakes up a bit with the Democratic Convention taking place this week in Denver. As well as tuning into the news channels and MSNBC’s live feed online (who have just announced a new show fronted by the cutest butch – ok I’ll stop swooning [...]
HSE officials and government press secretaries were probably cheering yesterday. Brenda is being replaced as a morning anchor on Newstalk by rockstud and calm voiced Tom Dunne. (Take a Parachute is one of my all time favourite songs.) The Irish Times reports that Brenda is looking forward to getting back into ‘scripted radio?’ Is that [...]
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In our apartment block or in the car park. He jumped to his death. I don’t know anymore than that and neither will most other people as suicides don’t make the news and probably rightly so. However I haven’t stopped thinking about him and also his family. I was leaving for work when I noticed [...]
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Ah I know they say don’t given them oxygen but read the last line of the article by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic on the latest reaction on the possible merger of the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission. Laugh? Oh I giggled merrily otherwise if I had really spent time shouting at the screen [...]
Cos if I was my gmail account would not have been hacked into or attacked by virus would it? Thousands of emails sent out last night to my contacts list. Text messages, emails and phone calls from many of these contacts have been received this morning. (Thank you to those who weren’t laughing at me!) [...]
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