Irish Eagle
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

A Marshall Plan is not what the EU needs

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A column in the Guardian calls for a new Marshall Plan to save the EU, but unfortunately the EU's dominated by leaders who believe in u...
Monday, July 04, 2011

National coffers boosted by training corrupt regimes' armed forces

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So the Irish government got money for training the armies of dubious regimes. Isn't that one of those charges that's always flung a...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Aer Lingus in T2 - better leave plenty of time.

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I know Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 is new and this is the first time they've had to deal with the busy summer season and there are p...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Is the state considering confiscating church property?

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A report in the Independent says the Department of Education will "take action on the divesting of schools if there was a delay in rea...
Friday, June 24, 2011

NY Times - American soccer's number 1 cheerleader

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Another NY Times article on how hot the MLS and soccer generally is in America. This time the NY Times reports on the "hottest ticket...

Leasing vs selling iPads for school

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A Lisburn school is leasing iPads to parents for £170 (€190) per year. The Mayo school in the news at the end of last month is selling the ...

No kidding - where are the missing goats going?

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Goats missing in Waterford may have been used to make bodhráns. I have half a memory of hearing of goats going missing before. Is this what...

Irish newspapers back to free online

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I don't think I've seen it commented on elsewhere, but in the long running battle between free and paid for online newspaper content...
Friday, June 17, 2011

America is not riven by hatred

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Walter Ellis has followed up his Irish Times column from earlier in the week with a letter to the editor in today's paper. Ellis says ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Obama 2011 & Reagan 1984

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I still cannot get over how so many Irish people found President Obama's speech inspiring or moving or just great. Whatever floats your...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

I don't believe all I've heard about Osama hit

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Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I don't believe the story about following the messenger who led the CIA to bin Laden. What I suspect...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Microtechnology revolution was foreseeable

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Kevin Myers says no one in 1981 foresaw that "microtechnology was going to transform the world." I understand what he's saying...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Note to Fergus Finlay: serious social problems need realistic solutions

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Fergus Finlay is asking why are young children and teenagers becoming increasingly violent. He doesn't cite any stats to show that teen...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Tremendous pressure on Moriarty get it 'right'

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I just read this on Twitter (from @CharlieFlanagan): Why would Judge Moriarty stitch up O'Brien, Lowry and Ben Dunne? This report is so...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Wild horses couldn't drag me to Jesse Jackson event

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If I wasn't so busy tomorrow night cutting my toenails I might have tried to get to see Ryan Tubridy interviewing Jesse Jackson at UCD. ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Irish Mirror's stupid front page

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I'm still shaking my head at the front page of yesterday's Irish Mirror. I only wish I'd taken a photograph of it so that I coul...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Are women safer drivers or do they drive less?

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"Women are safer drivers." That's the mantra in the Irish press these past few days following the ruling by the European Court...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Labour cannot go into opposition

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Okay, so Labour had their best election ever. I get it, but it would be a huge mistake for them to go into opposition now. They went into th...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

An education in Croke Park nonsense

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My son startled me this morning. He declared that he "hates Croke Park." Seeing as he's never been there and has no reason to ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Poster vandalism is a denial of democracy

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It kills me to say this, but I agree with Dick Roche. Not about everything, but about one thing: those who are defacing his posters don'...
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