Category: Life in General


  • News broke late yesterday that Intel was to create 400 new jobs in Ireland by 2006 with an investment of Eur1.6bn in a new manufacturing plant. Good news for any […]

  • Thanks to Seรกn H for this link. Reports of two soldiers whose casual cigarettes set off a small ammunition store causing $725M of damage and killed 5 people. source: Reuters.com

  • This weekend, just gone, saw my home city of Waterford host a very prestigious meeting of the European environment ministers at WIT. It was great to see the city and […]

  • Thanks to Paul M for this link. It seems as though the Irish Post Office has issued a new stamp to celebrate the EU expansion. The stamp features a map […]

  • 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 […]

  • While travelling to the airport on Monday before heading to Madrid I heard a story on Ray Darcy about a reality TV show in Singapore entitled “Dr. Love’s Superbaby Making […]

  • Well, I’m in Madrid at the moment it’s about 00:45 and I’ve just discovered that my hotel has a WiFi hotspot available. Amazing what a night of tapas and wine […]

  • It appears (I haven’t heard anything about it before now) that Dublin is to be fitted out with a light display to celebrate the EU expansion. I’m sure the ESB […]

  • A banking software company in Dublin has just been sold for $100M, and they still tell us that hi-tech is not in favour. Me thinks it’s time to set up […]

  • Following up on an earlier report that I blogged about the discovery of methane on Mars it has now just been confirmed that life has also been found on Mars. […]