I’m starting to think that the most effective way a man could gain my heart is to provide me with a decent kitchen. Currently, the pork is in the oven in an oven which well, frankly, it might possibly be 200*C but I’m not convinced mainly because the heat that’s spilling out through the top [...]
Mike Soden. Ex head honcho in Bank of Ireland. Bank of Ireland, as you know, is part owned by the government. He left for various reasons some time before all this blew up. I’m sure if he hadn’t left for those reasons we now would not have to listen to him. Pity.
According to various media [...]
Marc Coleman confuses me. He has written yet another piece for the Sunday Independent, which can probably be summed up as “property market = economic health”.
Anyway, the Sindo gives him a headline along the lines of “we need a confident and functioning property market” and while this is, in fact true, the impression I get [...]
While I was on holiday last week, some UK climate campaign (they’re famous if you’re UK based I think, they’re just another bunch of eco-activists if you’re not) launched their new video campaign. It provoked quite a lot of discussion.
If you can’t find the video (and it’s dotted around youtube and various other places), the [...]
Dan Boyle of the Green Party is currently a member of the Seanad. He also has a twitter account.
This morning, he posted this.
If you can’t be bothered clicking through – and I can’t say I blame you – here it is in its glory.
There can be no sugar coating. These figures are truly horrendous. It [...]
About a week ago, I came across this link about a visitor to Ireland looking for knitting.
I should make it clear, up front, that knitting isn’t top of my hobbies. But I do it from time to time. I’m more a crochet girl really.
This slightly irritated me for a few reasons. The primary one is [...]
Most wishful thinkers are suggesting we’ll see an election next year. I don’t know if we will, to be honest. No party wants to go to the country at the moment. You can tell this because neither Eamon Gilmore nor Enda Kenny are effectively putting the boot in.
University rankings were published today. They contained some [...]
I had some flashbacks today, to the summer when I was 15 or 16 when I was minding my small niece. My sister had something unheard of in my young life; namely MTV. MTV was a lot different then.
I remember just two songs that stood out. One was Wild Wild Thing by the Escape Club. [...]
I’m wondering exactly how Declan Kiberd got his copy to the Irish Times today. In fact, I’m wondering why he didn’t just call a town crier to deal with the matter. Because thanks to technology, quite a lot of people got to read his piece today on how the internet can, apparently, leave you disconnected. [...]
Today, I ploughed through a piece of text which the Sunday Independent was good enough to publish yesterday, written by someone else – as in, not me – which gave me cause to pause. Well that was after the tide of red rage had dissipated, that is. The thought that went through my head is [...]