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 [...]
Read this report from the Irish Times.
Fine Gael need to hang their heads in shame. If they had the guts to give us someone other than Enda Kenny as a complete loser leader, I might not have to write this.
In an effort to reduce payroll costs, it argues for the reduction in the number [...]
Today was one of those days that sounds more productive than it actually was. I:
started another lacy cardigan and am on row 4.
washed 3 towels and 2 swimsuits
sorted out the swimming drawer
tidied the boot of the car and made room, sort of, for the kite equipment.
tried on my harness. ugh. Put the IKSA tag on [...]
You can’t see me now but I am sitting here waiting for strawberries to defrost and watching The Best of Mavericks which I recorded on Extreme Sports on May 29 but have only now gotten around to switching on to watch. There’s some great surfing on it; I don’t tend to like commented surfing – [...]
Yesterday evening I decided I wanted to look at kitchens. Not because I wanted to buy one – I can’t at this present point in time even consider it – but because I wanted to dream for about 15 minutes. While I was there I bought 3 magazine boxy thing sets, 2 kitchen paring knives [...]
While I manage to handle most of my life electronically, occasionally, there comes a time when stuff needs to be posted/delivered/whatever. I was looking for options to send a camera to a service agent in the UK. Fast. Insured. And I discovered that you could send stuff DHL Express and drop off at the GPO [...]
See here.
PEOPLE with money on deposit are being subsidised at the moment and mortgage payers will end up bearing the pain — unless the Government moves to cap saver rates, a leading broker said yesterday.
So let’s make the people who have money as opposed to those who borrowed money bear the pain instead. Nice. Philip [...]
I’m confused and I suspect many people are. We have a property market. We have an economy.
Up until 2006, property prices in Ireland were largely on an upward trajectory. So upward, in fact, that a lot of people could not actually afford to buy property. Anecdotally, there’s a stat floating around that said 40% of [...]
I’ve been pointed to this.
The group is expected to consist of Irish Banking Federation boss Pat Farrell, consumer advocate and founder of the askaboutmoney website, Brendan Burgess; and Paul Joyce of the Free Legal Aid Centres (FLAC).
If I had any power in Ireland – and I do not – I [...]