It’s not every day that you hear of the Irish Army, the Gardaí and a support crew of aircraft out in force, together. However, it’s happening at the moment and the reason is a really big cat, loose in Monaghan. A wild cat, suspected to be a puma is on the prowl around Monaghan. The… Read More »Irsh Army – Special CAT Team
Great link forwarded on to me by Alex H. This is league table of economic entities based on GDP/sales figures. For anyone in doubt about the amount of revenue generated by insurance companies look no further than entries 52 and 55 in the table and you will see that a certain insurance company has more… Read More »League Tables…
Yesterday we celebrated Bloom and today we acknowledge that our economy is booming yet again. 50,000 new jobs were created in the last 12 months with approximately 80% of those being full-time positions. The news report last night even suggested that there could be a workforce shortage that would push salaries up again. Why does… Read More »We’re Booming!
The ever enjoyable Register has come up with the goods again on an otherwise uneventful day. It looks like NASA are attempting to grow strawberries on Mars (whenever they decide to man a mission there). Red fruit for the red planet? I wonder what the martians will think of large gatherings of southern folk sitting… Read More »NASA – A Fruit Case
I haven’t had a good rant in a while but sitting down, discussing wedding plans with Siân recently brought some things to mind. Why does the exploitation of other people�s happiness form part of an accepted Irish culture? This could be a multi-episode thread but today we’ll focus on hairdressers. Yes, the MX-5 driving, dirty… Read More »Thursday Tantrum
A new study has shown that the morale of IT workers is at rock-bottom due to the supposed downtown over the last few years. Some comapnies are offering “employee recognition programmes” in order to boost that feel good factor. Go on ya good thing, ya code like a divil! source: IT workers’ morale hits rock-bottom… Read More »And the ‘morale’ of the story is…
Funny the way SMS leads to a lack of clarity due to the imposed limit on the message length. Seemingly some poor guy in Bristol was arrested recently as a potential terrorist after sending the lyrics of a song to another friend. It looks like the message was intercepted and then traced back to the… Read More »Is Your SMS Safe?
Banks have been in the news recently and have dominated the conversations of everyone with respect to the breaking stories. Overcharging, misuse of advantage share options, the ever prevailant off-shore accounts, browsing websites resulting in very high management resigning, and more. Where will it all end? I don’t think that anyone in this country has been happy with banks for some time now but surely a reform must now be in order? source: Irish Times
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Looks like more good news to come on the tech front. Amazon look to be setting up a new centre in Ireland to create more jobs for the country. First it was Google a while back and now Amazon on the back of Intel’s announcement yesterday, things are looking up indeed! source: Irish Times Note:… Read More »More Good Tech News