Irish Eagle
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

We should follow Minister's logic and scrap TV license

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The Minister for Comms says the TV license won't exist in 2020 . Well, why don't we follow the Minister's logic on the electric...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Euro's crisis is thanks to hubris of European elites

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I missed most of the 9:00 news tonight and so didn't see how (or if) RTE reported on today's news on the euro, but it's gotten a...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Maol Muire Tynan - still can't pronounce it

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Maol Muire Tynan is a name I used to see regularly in the Irish Times. It also stuck in my head because I always used to wonder how you pron...
Friday, March 19, 2010

If Fianna Fáil used "deem and pass" ...

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Just imagine the reaction of Fintan O'Toole and Vincent Browne if Fianna Fáil ever tried a stunt like deem and pass? Just imagine the tu...

Night in Dublin's new theater will cost you

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Dublin's new Grand Canal Theatre opened last night . I presume it's as spectacular inside as outside (eh, no, I don't know what...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

American troops don't "stop off" in tax havens

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President Obama thanked Brian Cowen for allowing American troops use Shannon as a transit stop on the way to Iraq and Afghanistan. That...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The cost of November strike day

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Remember last November when just about all teachers and civil servants and others went on strike for a day? That was before the budget when ...

Housekeeping issues

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Still working on comments. Sorry about the big delay. I'm regularly posting on Twitter . My goal is to get this blog to be more like a s...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Should we adopt an education credits system?

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Youth unemployment is a huge issue here, so I'm not really opposed to the state offering training for young people. The fact that the s...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Bush admin's response to tsunami better comparison for current efforts

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After listening to the last few minutes of Pat Kenny's show today I'm ready to explode. Okay, his panel was stuffed with Obamaphiles...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Mass. election proves America's still not Europe

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I posted this on Twitter earlier: One year anniversary of Obama's election. He can still right ship, but Brown's win ends European d...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Brown vs Coakley in Mass and vs health care in US

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RTE & the Irish Times have been trumpeting President Obama's success in getting his health care proposals through the various stage...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Haloscan comments have vanished

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I don't know what happened to the comments. Something seems to have changed with Haloscan.com. I can't access my account. I hope all...

The overly centralized mind

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On Friday the Minister for Education, panicked by complaints from teachers and parents and the press, announced all schools were closed unti...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Will week off eliminate strike threat?

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At a minimum pretty much every kid in the state is going to miss a week of school due to the weather. So are the teachers. http://bit.ly/7km...
Monday, January 04, 2010

Now that the Lisbon Treaty is secure out pop the tax harmonizers

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We're a long way from out of our economic disaster, but the EU is ready to bash our hopes of recovery again. Yesterday's Sunday Busi...
Sunday, January 03, 2010

Lone Parents Allowance encourages dependecy

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Brenda Power says that the pajamas in daytime phenomenon is connected to the culture fostered by the Lone Parents Allowance. The LPA is a d...
Friday, January 01, 2010

A 'real' New Year's Day for President Obama

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From today's NY Times: Christmas Day terror attempt may stop Guantanamo closing Man appointed by Pres Obama to lead investigation into w...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

'Neutral' cannot include training of combatant's forces

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Surely training Egypt's air force pilots in '79 was as much a breach of neutrality as allowing 12,000 American troops to land at Sh...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

You can't neglect the 4th R

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All boys instinctively know that if you spend too much time on the 3 R's - reading, riting & rithmetic - you won't fully develo...
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