CAO first round points, 2010
Given that CAO.ie seems to be sporadically up and down for most people this morning I thought it might be helpful if I copied the document and put it up on my own webspace to try and distribute the...
View ArticleOn Cowen and potentially being drunk
The discussions today about Brian Cowen and whether he was drunk or not during his Morning Ireland interview seem to be missing one point. Simon Coveney, tweeting about the idea, is not the thing that...
View ArticleHere’s how (if you wanted to) you could manufacture new followers using...
Ah, onMouseOver – you’re so simple. The string being sent around Twitter today merely inserts a string of JavaScript into the user box and submits it without a user having to click ‘Send’. So, why not...
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How to create an iPhone ringtone from any mp3
Guess who’s back, back again? Now that I’m a working man (more of which, I promise, will come in due course), writing for a living, it’s about bloody time I pulled up the bootstraps on this here blog...
View ArticleOn that Irish Times editorial, and ‘sovereignty’
A quick note – which will only make sense if you’ve read Madam Editor’s piece from Thursday morning, channeling Yeats: Was It For This?. It’s obviously an emotive issue – especially in Ireland – when...
View ArticleIf you’re annoyed at how RTÉ cut off Vincent Browne’s questions:
Watch TV3′s special edition of Tonight with Vincent Browne at 10:30pm, instead of The Week in Politics. They’ll be airing the video, including the censored questions. Email complaints@rte.ie. Contact...
View ArticleThought for the day: March 31, 2011
A GENERATION ago, the very idea that a British politician would go to Ireland to see how to run an economy would have been laughable. The Irish Republic was seen as Britain’s poor and troubled country...
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Too much of a good thing
SO, MY FIRST real blog post in well over a year. I won’t make the usual ill-fated apology about trying to do more in future – variety is the spice of life, etc etc – but instead want to put across an...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the push for a European referendum
[Edited, 7:11pm] So this morning we learned that the Dáil’s technical group is to use a little-known clause in the Constitution – Article 27 – by getting together enough Oireachtas signatures to...
View ArticleDear Tim
Thank you for conceiving of the means through which I’m writing to you this morning. Thank you for envisaging a system which did not penalise me for allowing a blog to languish without updates for two...
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