tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139501702024-02-20T08:10:31.009+00:00Happenings from Ireland. We're more than just a rip off Republic....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13950170.post-6975390804953716912007-01-05T14:09:00.000+00:002007-01-05T14:15:15.939+00:00

These were the type of wonderful, inciteful observations made by Charlie Bird on his trip up the Amazon. 6 weeks of travel for 1 hour of Charlie moaning about altitude sickness, a 20km/6 hour hike to a bed, toilet troubles and so on.Awful stuff methinks - an hour of Charlie Bird anxieties.I never thought that speaking directly to camera was still a technique used by any production company of

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The Companies Registration Office and their IT people seem to be taking their Christmas break early. The site is currently unavailable. The text at www.cro.ie (reproduced below) is very 1990's...... "We are actively working on the problem and hope to have it back as soon as possible. However, it is possible that it will not be back up before Wednesday 20th December."I love the last bit.

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The Autumn radio schedule for RTE Radio 1 was much talked about in mid summer. The loss of John Kelly, Rattlebag......and John Creedon to the graveyard shift. The schedule has now settled in, but really there are some oddities.- Eamon Dunphy on saturday morning. Hopes that the demise of Carrie Crowley on Sunday morning with the VIP Suite (that ran for years), at least saturday morning was

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I see the irony of posting about typepad from a blogger account...Has anybody experienced problems this morning doings posts from within typepad ?Tags: typepad

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....And I thought I had not paid the bill. So I paid the bill - and then of course had a quick look on boards.ie and found that Eircom has pulled the wholesale service from Smart Telecom.Tags: irish ireland smart telecom

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If this is a sign of the kind of antics that current TD's are going to embark on, it is going to be long, long winter for the Government.RTE News today had a report about the lengths that Fianna Fail Deputy for Roscommon - Michael Finneran - will go to, in order to save inpatient surgery services at Roscommon County Hospital; he claims he will not stand for the party if the decision is not

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I don't think you need to be a psychologist to understand that part of the motivation for Roy Keane to take on the managers role at Sunderland must be to prove that he bring success/non-failure to the club where his nemesis Mick McCarthy could not.If this premise is true, it also shows Niall Quinn to be quite dispassionate but also very clever at understanding the psyche of Keane, and the appeal

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Just noticed this on the breakingnews.ie website.On the AIB banner ad at the top of the page, rollover the dude on the right. he waves briefly, then invites you in. Then in a not so subtle way, you can see that he takes a deep breath and his shoulders sag with the injustice of it all. So of all of the takes, they had to choose this one? Poor production.Tags: irish ireland adverts aib

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Not very widely reported, but the Fianna Fail heavyweights are giving seminars to invited SME audiences around the country to reassure them on the state of the economy.If I were Frank Flannery, 'twould be an idea to nip this notion from Cowan & Co that the opposition would not be able to provide the "safe pair of hands" that the economy needs.This was the Big Bertha that was kept pretty much in

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Travelling through middle Ireland yesterday - it's hard to put all the blame for road traffic accidents on the lap of young, inexperienced drivers.On three separate occasions I had to brake and swerve to avoid stupid decisions by other drivers - what part of a continuous white line don't people understand when they are attempting to overtake ?With last weeks deaths on the roads, I also heard a

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Morning Ireland on Radio 1 this week is doing a 10 minute piece @8.50am on eco-friendly products for the home - wood pellet stoves, wind, solar, etc.Paul Cunningham was chatting to a couple in County Leitrim this morning, and their experience with geo-thermal energy. In a moment of PayKenny'esque inappropriateness, Paul puts it to the genteleman being interviewed - "so why are you doing this, i

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Plunging a fresh brew of coffee this morning by the kitchen sink, I overheard Mick Lally's dulcet Mayo accent on the radio, speak lovingly about one of these companies that buy homes from retired people; not like that evil Richard from Coronation Street, who did some some seriously bad PR for the concept.By all accounts, the accents of Lally and the other Irish actors on the set of Alexander also

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Gentle readers - the snark has been awoken from his posting hiatus by a short piece in the Sligo Champion relating to rip-off republic champion Eddie Hobbs.Ah yes - by releasing your hard earned €20 at the door of the Sligo Radisson on wednesday, march 22nd - you too can dazzle your friends with original ways of spending your SSIA's and learn the "A-Z of Personal Finance".Since the beginning of

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Flicking around on RTE 1 last friday night - Kenny Live. the panel from from You're a star were on promoting the show.It's very unusual for Pat to put on his radio tone for pap like this; But fair play to him he did, asking the question that cynics like to ask - "who has come through this type of show and made a name for themselves?"Roll up Brendan Graham with the "you may not have known this but

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Browsing the Irish Government procurement website this morning brought a smile to my dark january face.....Sale of ice cream in the Phoenix ParkAccording to the notice"..The Phoenix Park is a National Historic Park and due consideration wil be given to any tenderer who undertakes to sell ice cream fron a traditional vehicle or point of sale."I hope "traditional vehicle" includes tinkly, pied

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This is what Ivor Callely might look like if here were to blade along the seafront in Clontarf.Tags: ivor callely fiannafail ireland irish irishblogs politics gardai

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RTE reports that Roy Keane has left Manchester United. How many times are we going to hear the words "driven character" over the next few days.It was probably inevitable that he might leave at the end of the season. bus as I have said before, is he manager material. I don't think so.Tags: ireland irish roy keane man utd football

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What about captions for this ? (from Ireland.com) - the esteemed journalists at the Irish Times already have their tongue in cheek - when you do a right click and save on the site - the default name of the file is 'makemyday'.Maybe Minister O'Dea was familiar with some iconic film references ?Anyway, how about Vote for me at the next election or else ? I'd much prefer to have a gun than a

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The Irish Times and BreakingNews report that Com Reg has launched a site aimed at consumers, that shows comparison across providers of broadband, fixed line, mobile, text messaging services, etc.The site is www.askcomreg.ie , with the Irish Times reporting that it is in development for 6 months or so. That report also gave the impression that users could directly compare (the example given) the

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I heard the 6.45 sports news on Radio 1 this morning - they were going on about Terry Venables being the "favourite" for the Irish managers position, something which i commented on a while back.I must be totally naive or missing something elemental here. Is this the most explicit example to date of bookies having the direct phone number to the sports department of a national broadcaster?

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It seems that the Michael Martin is going to advise the abolition of the Groceries order this morning according to RTE News.Within the related Morning Ireland interviews, it was mentioned that the average joe could expect to save between €500 to €1000 per annum. Not bad. There was a quick refute in here that the decision was down to Eddie Hobbs and his summertime Rip Off Republic.Personally, I

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The launch of Transport 21, the Irish Governments initiative for roads, rail and metro over the next 10 years was launched with some fanfair on monday last. I have a theory on this one, which I think has been echoed over the last few days...When you hear the radio news at 7am on a dull monday morning talking about a Government announcement/initiative later in the day, you might you be a little

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Sounds like Liveline has opened the airways to disgruntled GAA supporters over the latest compromise rules game between Ireland and Australia.The Match report from RTE sums it all up, pretty ruthless stuff by all accounts. This is a shame. For anyone that has attended one of these down under or in Croke Park, they have provided a great atmosphere.Tags: gaa ireland irish australia aussierules rte

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It's been quite a while since my last posting, but I decided that I needed to take some time out and really observe the blogging community and the community that is out there - observing & commenting on things that matter to them.The attention that sport gets in media today, particularly in light of Noam Chomsky's remarks on it being the opiate of the masses (not quote his quote) is astounding.

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I believe that Clifden Chamber of Commerce had a major input into Sundays' successful re-enactment of the 1919 Alcock & Brown crossing of the Atlantic from St Johns' to a boggy setdown in Connemara, Ireland. Surprisingly, this receieved little publicicty in Ireland, a little bit of eclipsing I think by NASA and their deep impact/comet busting. The Irish Times does have this wonderful front page

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