Category: Life in General


  • Well, I’ve been off work all week so far. Not due to any wonderful relaxing break nor DIY escapades or garden indulgences but rather I have been confined to bed […]

  • A few days ago I posted an article with respect to the proposed introduction of increased parking fees in Dublin for people with “big” engine cars. Thankfully the Dublin City […]

  • We’ve all been asked that question, “What would you do if you won…” Well a German lorry driver was given the chance to win and throw away Eur 75, 000. […]

  • SUV = EUROs

    A new proposal in Dublin is set to see drivers of SUV and other large vehicles pay twice what a “normal” car owner pays to park outside their own home. […]

  • Reincarnated

    My site is just back up again after some server downtime over Christmas (strangely enough just after my open invitation to Gay Byrne – if I was paranoid…). Anyway it […]

  • I was informed during the week that Gay Byrne was recently on the radio singling out young male drivers as being the only problem on our roads. Apparently this interview […]

  • For so long now the majority of Western civilisation has lived life based on the shallow assumption that looks are everything. For so long people have been driven to distraction, […]

  • I heard about this on the news yesterday and was simply shocked at the thought of old people signing over a maximum of 15% of their homes to the government […]

  • We’ve all heard that there was no such thing as a free lunch but it is starting to look like there will soon be no such thing as lunch. A […]

  • The 19% increase granted to the ESB by the energy deregulator earlier this year is set to be reviewed due to a dramatic fall in the price of oil since […]