Suggestions as to what Mr. Desmond’s Cultural Odyssey might be in the comments please. Wonder if he had an arts guru think that up for him. (Original and really interesting article on the new found love of the arts from the Political classes and business tycoons here. )
The Order of Business in the Seanad brings up all sorts of kites to be flown by Senators checking in for their part time job which attracts the payment of an amount many times over the national minimum wage. Today Green Party appointed Senator Mark Dearey joined some of his kin in the SME sector [...]
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Sniffle… Peninsula Ireland have appeared on Maman Poulet’s hall of shame before. Invariably they are described in the media as an employment law firm, one with a penchant for tabloidesque press releases, they never fail to get their guff covered in some paper or other. ‘Peninsula offers a full range of services covering health and [...]
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When word went out earlier that Jim Corr was going to be on the Last Word on Todayfm you could hear radio switches click and kettles boil in anticipation. It is nearly a year since we were all agog listening to Jim’s intervention into the Lisbon Treaty Campaign. Well Jim was back today to tell [...]
Did you ever get the feeling that Ryan Tubridy has not got over Hillary Clinton not winning the Democratic Nomination for the US Presidential Election? On Saturday night’s TV show during a cooking piece with St. Nevin Maguire of all people, Ryan picked up two bags of icing, one white and one brown and laddishly [...]
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I know there has been a lot of commentary and citizen activismonline about those signs in the last few weeks. To recap briefly – Commuters and pedestrians have noted the dangers presented by the signage and many others have commented on the deal that was done, the cityscape that was sold and the execution of [...]
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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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John Waters hates blogs…ah poor diddums. Is he crying over it like he was over Katy French? Thanks to Twenty for the clip I missed. Satanism…ah there was always a devilish streak in me!
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While the debates about the ban on traditional lightbulbs continue it’s probably about time that the many people living in Ireland who will be physically and emotionally affected by the move to low energy (CFL) bulbs put their two cents in. For those of you who are not light sensitive or allergic to UVA rays [...]
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I get more than a few visits to the blog – Google is kind to me – lots of google searches for Steve Staunton, Niall McElwee, more recently People in Need land here. This morning a commuter from yesterdays Dublin-Waterford 4.25pm train searched visited and went to the post on signage for people with disabilities [...]
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