Politics

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

The e-voting fiasco that has swept the country over the last few months has come to a very interesting conclusion. The electronic system proposed for the forthcoming June elections has now been postponed until further notice. source: Department of the Environment and Local Government

Well it had to happen at some stage and now it has. Starbucks the Seattle coffee company has already infested most of the world and now it looks set to take over the 32 counties. Finally, all Irish people can add a little more caffeine to their diets with a choice of every type of… Read More »Coming Soon… A Starbucks

Yesterday I returned home from work only to lift from my letter box what I assumed to be junk mail. Indeed I wasn’t too far from the truth. It was a flyer from the local corporation informing me about the new refuse charges to be employed in the city. For the last couple of years… Read More »Rubbish!

Well, in the news today Michael Jackson is due in court, Dubliners are 17% better off than the rest of Ireland, Mary Harney suffers an embarrassing resistance from her department with respect to decentralisation to Carlow and my very own research group the TSSG is headlining again with more publicity. What a day! source: Irish… Read More »In the news today

Well the Luas development is sparking yet more controversy with the building of a Eur 30M terminus at Connelly station despite proposed extensions to the Point Depot rendering the terminus defunct. However, if it’s in the budget then it must be spent after all the money would only be written off some other way otherwise… Read More »On the Luas Again

Seemingly the IFSRA have recently conducted a study that shows how motor insurance quotes can vary greatly from one company to another. Personally I was amazed at this study. No, no not the findings but the fact that they actually took so long to conduct it on information that could have been obtained from two… Read More »Call for Cheaper Motor Insurance?

Just got mailed a link to a blog of a fellow Waterford man and started reading the entries. Political correctness does not seem to be high on his agenda but some of the entries/rants are pure fun. I trackbacked a post about TV licences for the sole reason that somebody needs to rant about them.… Read More »TV Licences

Well Arnie is in and personnally I think he will do a great job over there in CA. His first press conference went really well and he’s handling the burning issues pretty good. His first major statement is that he won’t raise taxes (clich�?) and he’ll also repeal car tax. It will be interesting to… Read More »Well He Did Say He’d Be Back

Seems as though there is a Dr. Kelly type dispute starting in the US at the moment. The classified name of some CIA official has been leaked in association with the US lead war on Iraq and now the trouble is brewing. source: CNN.com