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Low temperature warning ⚠

2015-01-18T21:34:00.001+00:00

Low temperature warning as -5 degrees forecast http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/low-temperature-warning-as-5-degrees-forecast-658549.html?utm_source=androidapp&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=sharebutton

Example of bad brakes

2014-12-22T05:51:00.001+00:00

You can take a small torch and peek into the area where the brake disks are, one photo shows a nice shiny disk while the other shows signs of major damage.

Mobile phone tracking route

2014-08-08T22:25:00.001+01:00

Post via new mobile phone, and I am looking forward to seeing the results. I am using Map my Ride app.

Happy Birthday Mum

2013-10-12T17:03:00.001+01:00

Washing Machine: Clearing the pump

2013-09-14T23:13:00.001+01:00

Turn off the power, I cannot stress how important this is.
Disconnect the plug from the mains.
Remove the mains plug from the wall. Now that you have done this we can begin

Tilt the washing maching on the side oppisite to the pump still giving you room to work. Endure the machine is on a surface that is not slippy. If the tiles of floor allows the machine to slide easily, place a damp towl unserneath the contact points of the machine to the ground.

Remove the secure screws that hold in the pump

Remove the wiring loom, (Don’t Break it, be nice)

Drop down the pump.

Hold over empty basin to ensure the (wife/what ever you like to call her) does not bloody kill you for making a mess of the floor.!

Unscrew and allow to drain excess water out

Now I will make this picture bigger, I am not liking this, there is rust or more specifically copper rust, this can really mean only one thing, I am about to hit the jackpot, Payday, man its time to retire!!!!!
You see the hole at the rear of the pump where the fins are, there is going to be copper coins inside that void. You will need to shake the pump a bit and point the hole down to release the coins.

Ahhh Haaaa!

Chick-ching!!!

Now reassemble everything in reverse because I am not going to hold your hand and do it for you, mainly because I cut mine!

!!Feckin Ouch!!!

ei1429 out!

Learn to park

2013-07-07T03:08:00.001+01:00

Seriously, can we take more care in carparks, Aldi was packed and thease cars were takin up two spaces each?

Funny moment

2013-07-07T03:02:00.001+01:00

I seen this and thought i should share it. (for those of you clicking the report button for copyright, dont bother, the image is not mine)

Of all places to get stuck

2013-06-30T13:50:00.001+01:00

I snaged myself good in Balla Golf Course. Was an interesting manuver trying to get out.

R331 Claremorris (Heading West)

2012-10-02T15:25:00.001+01:00

[Astronomy Ireland] 'Discovering the God Particle'

2012-09-28T23:54:00.001+01:00

1. Public Lecture: Discovering the God Particle

In July of this year a team of scientists at CERN - led by Professor Rolf Heuer who gave Astronomy Ireland's Public Lecture the same month - announced the discovery of a new particle, which was widely believed to be the long-sought Higgs Boson.

In light of the immense public interest in the Higgs Boson in Ireland at that time, our October Public Lecture will be delivered by Dr Cormac O'Raifeartaigh who will explain what the Large Hadron Collider is, how the Higgs Boson was discovered, and what it means for our understanding of the Universe.

With the start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particle physics entered a new era. The LHC will provide a deeper understanding of the universe and the insights gained could change our view of the world. The LHC is expected to yield insights into the nature of dark matter and the existence of hidden extra dimensions.

The lecture, The Higgs Boson will take place on Monday, October 8th, at 8pm in Trinity College Dublin, and people are invited to bring friends and family. Tickets and DVDs of this lecture can be booked online at www.astronomy.ie or by calling (01) 890 11 11.

2. Sun Show on Saturday

Each Saturday from 1pm we will hold a Sun Show at the Astronomy Ireland Shop, allowing the general public to view the Sun in safety to see magnificent solar flares and planet-sized sunspots. This is an excellent opportunity to try out some daytime astronomy with the help of experienced astronomers. Get more information on the Sun Shows HERE.

For the Birds

2012-06-30T03:00:00.001+01:00

Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun

2012-02-08T18:29:00.001+00:00

Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun

02/07/2012 12:00 AM EST

On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare. Image Credit: JAXA/Hinode

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A New Map of the Moon

2011-11-18T19:48:00.001+00:00

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter science team released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. This new topographic map shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 328 feet. Although the moon is Earth's closest neighbor, knowledge of its morphology is still limited. Due to the limitations of previous missions, a global map of the moon’s topography at high resolution has not existed until now. With LRO's Wide Angle Camera and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter instrument, scientists can now accurately portray the shape of the entire moon at high resolution. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/DLR/ASU

Boost for south Mayo job-seekers with free CV workshop

2011-11-17T14:06:00.001+00:00

Job-seekers in south Mayo are getting a free opportunity to learn how to create an effective CV, thanks to a novel tie-up between Let’s Work West and leading CV preparation and interview training organisation Sli Nua Careers.

Watson’s Lane Ballinrobe

The duo will provide a CV workshop for the unemployed and employed people of the south Mayo region on Monday, November 28^th (6-7o’c), at Sli Nua Careers’ offices located at Watson’s Lane Ballinrobe.

Participants will gain valuable advice on how to improve their chances of getting employment or making a career move.

Through guidance of Sli Nua Careers Consultant Liam Horan participants will learn useful tips about CV preparation.

“I think this is a worthwhile opportunity for people to come along to the workshop and gain helpful advice that won’t cost them anything. There has been an incredible amount of interest in this event and with limited places it is advisable to book beforehand by calling 094 95 42965,” said Liam Horan.

“Let’s Work West have done a considerable amount in getting people up and working again, particularly with their recent and very successful jobs expo in Castlebar. We hope that with our services available for these workshops we will be able to help a lot of people,” added Liam.

Joanne Maloney from Let’s Work West urged people to avail of the opportunity. “It’s great to be teaming up with Sli Nua Careers on this project. They really know the business and what employers are looking for. It’s a fantastic opportunity for anyone who isn’t sure about their CV or even people who have never done up a CV,” she said.

Bookings can be made by contacting Liam Horan, Sli Nua Careers, 094 95 42965, liam.horan@slinuacareers.com.

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My barometer is telling me there is rain coming!

2011-11-03T08:44:00.000+00:00

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[Astronomy Ireland] New School Speakers Needed

2011-10-18T00:04:00.001+01:00

New School Speakers Needed!

Astronomy Ireland is currently recruiting Education Officers for our very successful education programme.

The programme is currently in its second year running. It was founded in 2009 when Astronomy Ireland launched its campaign to ‘Build a science culture for Ireland’.

Astronomy is a fascinating subject and has shown itself to be an excellent gateway subject into science for children. As astronomy is not a main part of the primary and secondary curriculum we feel we offer an important service to schools. We have already visited thousands of primary school children around the country and are constantly working on improving the quality of our programme.

Who are we looking for!

If you have a background in science, a passion for astronomy and teaching experience then we would like to hear from you.

· Science Graduates – preferably with physics/ astrophysics/ astronomy

· Amateur astronomers

· Must have teaching experience.

· Other experience working with young children

· Teachers or trainee teachers with a good knowledge of astronomy, and a desire to work with us to create astronomy lesson plans and teaching resources.

· Fluent Irish speakers. We currently have a lot of interest from Gaelscoils around the country, and would like to be able to offer talks ‘as Gaeilge’.

· We are very interested in hearing from people who live in Waterford/Wexford, Sligo/Donegal, Cork/Kerry, and Mayo/Galway regions.

· Must have your own transport and be willing to travel.

Job description

Education officers will travel to schools in their areas and deliver high-quality presentations to the students. The basis of each presentation will be a highly visual slide-show, usually lasting 40minutes, with 20minutes for Q&A at the end. Each speaker will have at least two talks, one for a younger audience and one for older students. We are looking for people with creative ideas for teaching astronomy. We are looking for passionate speakers who will bring the subject to life for the children.

Application is by C.V. Closing date for submissions is Tuesday 25th October 2011. Please send C.V. to cliona@astronomy.ie

Successful applicants will be required to attend an interview and present a short 15 minute PowerPoint presentation.

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Santa 2012

2011-10-02T17:48:00.001+01:00

When you have written your Santa letter remember to put your name and address at the end. (just in case there is two children with the same name) if you can, each person should write their own letter or if they cant write, ask an adult to help with the spelling of the hard words.

The next thing to do is put your letter in an envelope. On the front you should write

TO SANTA
AT SANTAS WORKSHOP
NORTH POLE

Put your letter in any post box or the post box at your local post office. You don’t even need a stamp. Your letters will be collected and put in a post bag marked SANTA LETTERS ONLY. When the bag is full it will be tied and then it will be taken to Athlone. All the bags with Santa letters from Donegal, Mayo and the midlands must go to Athlone. From Athlone their next stop is Dublin. When the bags arrive in Dublin from all over the country they are loaded on to a big truck and driven to Dublin Airport. All the Santa Letters only bags are then loaded on a plane going to Lapland. When the plain lands the bags of letters are taken off and are sent direct to Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole.

Lapland and the North Pole is a very snowy place. All this moving of mail bags takes time. Sometimes the snow at the North Pole slows things down. We know that the post room at the North Pole will read every letter they get form Ireland and sometimes but not always some children might get a letter back. Not every child does. This is because the heavy snow stops the letters getting back to the plain and so back to Ireland.

I hope this helps!

Yacht missing of Irish SW coast

2011-09-24T19:34:00.001+01:00

Efforts are underway to try and locate a yacht feared missing off the southwest coast.
The vessel - which had been en-route from Bermuda to West Cork - is overdue by almost a week.
Valentia Coastguard is co-ordinating the operation.
The 32 foot yacht "Golden Eagle" left Bermuda in the middle of last month, and had been due to arrive in Crookhaven last week.
However, it never arrived, there has been no radio contact, and concern is growing for the safety of the two man crew.
This morning, four naval vessels on patrol in the area will take part in the search off the Cork coast, with air support provided by the Aer Corps.

Indonesia airline check air hostess applicants 'for breasts implants during job interview'

2011-08-27T08:25:00.001+01:00

Dozens of women applying for air hostess jobs with an Indonesian airline were ordered to strip nearly naked and have their breasts handled in medical check-ups, one of the applicants claimed today. She said Garuda - Indonesia's main airline - wanted to screen out women who had tattoos on their breasts or who had had breast implants. As part of the medical check-up, they had to strip down to just their pants, the woman making the allegations claimed. Declining to be named - because she said she still wanted the coveted job - the woman said the breast checks were carried out at the airline's South Korean branch in Seoul.

The applicants hoped to snare one of the 18 positions being offered for flight attendants. 'The hand examination on breast was held since those with implants can have health issues when air pressure falls during flights,' the South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted an airline official as saying. The official said cabin crew were banned from having tattoos and workers hired in other countries such as Japan and Australia were also subjected to a similar examination. However claims about the check-ups have angered women's rights groups, which described the process as unnecessary and intrusive. 'I wonder if such a practice is acceptable in Indonesia,' said Ms Kim Da-Mi, who works with the Sexual Violence Relief Centre in Seoul. A spokesman for South Korea's main airline, Korean Air, described the tests as 'bizarre'. He said: 'We've never heard of or done such check-ups on flight attendants but I wonder if this means that passengers with breast implants should not fly also.' At Garuda Indonesia's office in Seoul, a spokesman said the medical tests should have followed routine procedures - and those do not include such examinations. 'We are investigating the matter by questioning managers and the doctor who was in charge of the check-up,' said spokesman Park Sung-Hyun. 'This is very embarrassing.' It has not been revealed whether the doctor is female or male. Flight attendant jobs are keenly sought by South Korean women, enticed by high pay and travel opportunities. Thousands prepare for years, attending beauty salons and ensuring they have a high education standard before applying for vacancies.

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Lightning Over Ballinrobe

2011-08-25T15:20:00.001+01:00

Image Credit: Brendan Nutley

Hurricane Irene

2011-08-24T08:31:00.001+01:00

High above the Earth from aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan snapped this image of Hurricane Irene as it passed over the Carribean on Aug. 22, 2011. The National Hurricane Center noted on Aug. 22 that Irene is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 5 to 10 inches across Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Southeastern Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands. Isolated maximum amounts of rainfall may reach up to 20 inches. Image Credit: NASA

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Knock Airport

2011-08-22T10:04:00.000+01:00

A Ryanair flight landing at Knock airport.

DID ROBIN HOOD ACTUALLY EXIST?

2011-08-22T09:30:00.001+01:00

The story of Robin Hood has been popularized in numerous
books and films over the years Legend has it that Robin
was deprived of his lands by the sheriff of Nottingham and
forced to take refuge in Sherwood Forest, where he became
an outlaw, banding with a group of Merry Men, falling in
love with a maid named Marian, and stealing from the rich to give to the poor For many years, people have questioned whether this Good Samaritan really did exist. The first literary reference to Robin Hood appeared in
1377, where he is portrayed as a common bandit, and there
are printed versions of ballads on the subject from the early
sixteenth century in which he is portrayed as a farmer or
tradesman In later accounts, it is said that Robin was a nobleman
from the late twelfth century, during the time when
Richard the Lionheart was fighting the Crusades However,
one of the original ballads has it that he lived during the
reign of Edward II While some of the early ballads do refer
to the sheriff of Nottingham and some of the Merry Men,
no mention is made of Maid Marian, who is thought to have
been added in later versions of the story.

The British Museum keeps an account of Robin’s life, which holds that he was born in 1160 in Lockersley, Yorkshire,
although this place doesn’t exist Another account, however, has it that he was from Wakefield in the fourteenth
century. A tourist attraction in Nottinghamshire is a tree
known as the Major Oak, which is said to have been where Robin Hood lived, although this claim has been disputed by some who allege that the tree isn’t old enough.

While some academics claim Robin Hood of Sherwood
Forest never existed, it is generally accepted that someone
referred to as Robin Hood did Where and when he lived,
and how much generosity he bestowed on the poor, remain
matters of conjecture, and most experts agree that much of
the modern-day legend is just that.

South Coast Rescue underway as yacht capsizes

2011-08-15T23:26:00.001+01:00

A US registered yacht capsized near Fastnet Rock off the Co Cork coast this evening.
(Picture: The world-record holding 'Rambler 100' earlier this year...)

Some 22 people were onboard the Rambler 100 , which was participating in the Fastnet Race from Cowes to Fastnet and back to Plymouth, when it capsized in force five winds at about 6.30pm.
The Department of Transport said all 22 crew had been accounted for. As many as 10 people were feared missing earlier. A department spokeswoman said 16 people were now sitting on the hull of the ship and the remainder were on life rafts.

The Irish Coast Guard and Baltimore Lifeboat are attending. Two Irish Coast Guard helicopters R116 & R117 from Shannon and Waterford were also dispatched. Naval patrol ship LE Ciara was in the area and is also assisting.
Although the sea is not particularly rough, the search operation is being hampered by misty and rainy conditions with visibility down to less than a mile. The Fastnet Race, regarded as the one of the oldest offshore yacht races in the world, first took place in 1925.
The 608-mile race passes Land’s End before turning north-north-west and across the Celtic Sea towards West Cork. Participants round the famous lighthouse three miles off Cape Clear Island before heading to their ultimate destination of Plymouth.
The majority of the crews participating are amateur and club racers.
A total of 314 boats started the race, now sponsored by Rolex, off Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Sunday, beating the previous record turnout of 303 entries registered for the tragic 1979.
A total of 15 people died that year when the fleet was caught in violent weather and sea conditions between Lands End and Fastnet.
A memorial stone listing the 15 names was erected on Cape Clear’s North Harbour in time for the 25th anniversary which was held on the island in 2004.
Prior to 1979 the Fastnet Race had a good safety record with one crewman lost overboard in 1931.

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[Astronomy Ireland] Irish Astronomers Find Planets! - Lecture Report

2011-08-12T09:43:00.001+01:00

Irish Astronomers Find Planets!

The Future of Planet-Hunting - Lecture Report and DVD

The search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting fields in astronomy and will perhaps one day answer the question of whether we are alone in the Universe. Although searching for alien worlds dates back to ancient times the techniques needed to detect them have only recently been developed with the first exoplanet being discovered in 1992. The possibility of finding life on another planet is a thrilling one not only for astronomers but also for a huge proportion of the general public, and this was clearly evident at Astronomy Ireland’s August lecture in Trinity College on Monday night, August 8th. The Schroedinger theatre was packed full of people eager to hear Professor Don Pollacco from Queen's University, Belfast, speak about the next generation of exoplanet surveys and get a clue as to where in our galaxy we may find our alien neighbours.

Prof Pollacco is a research astronomer in the Astrophysics Research Centre at QUB, and he is part of a team who uses and operates SuperWASP instruments. SuperWASP is a leading extra-solar planet detection programme. It consists of two robotic observatories that operate all year round allowing astronomers to cover both hemispheres of the sky. The observatories each consist of eight wide-angle cameras that simultaneously monitor the sky for planetary transit events. Prof Pollacco explained that a transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its parent star temporarily blocking some of the light from it. The SuperWASP instruments look for these tiny dips in the brightness of the parent star. The eight wide-angle cameras allow them to monitor millions of stars simultaneously enabling the detection of rare transit events.

Prof Pollacco examined the possibilities of finding life in the Milky Way and, indeed, intelligent civilisations who wish to make contact. For a long time the numbers in the famous Drake Equation (which determines the number of civilisations) were simply down to guesswork: numbers such as how many stars will have planets around them, how many are capable of supporting life, and so on. However, in recent years, thanks to the work of Prof Pollacco and other astronomers, we can now make educated estimates of these numbers. At the lecture, Prof Pollacco showed that the number of intelligent, contactable civilisations in our galaxy may be as high as 20,000!

Following the lecture, attendees went to The Lombard Inn for complimentary food and a chat with Prof Pollacco and other attendees.

A full report and photos of the event are available HERE.

If you were unable to make it to the lecture, or would like a souvenir, you can order a copy of the lecture on DVD, for only €7 plus P&P. Remember you can order as many DVDs of our previous lectures as you like for the same postage cost of €5.

Order your DVD HERE.

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