Irish Eagle
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Cutting education costs by cutting degree requirements is a bad idea

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Sloppy mistake from a NY Times blog . The headline of the blog post reads: "State of Indiana Tries to Make Education More Affordable By...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Look before you Leap ... card OR dumb @IrishRail

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I didn't need to get a Leap card. I got it cause I thought it would be more convenient than having to buy a ticket each time I took the...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Save the dog = laughs

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If I was a dog lover I probably wouldn't find this video ( http://bit.ly/uWomr6 ) so funny, but I'm not and I do. I think whatever...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Dáil TV and Oct 27 referendum

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Just wondering, but could there be a connection between our "coming soon" Dáil TV channel and next week's referendum on Oirea...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Church's influence over Irish education not what's often claimed

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The Irish Times list of the 50 most powerful people in Irish education is interesting. What really caught my eye, what really should get ...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Catching Hell – a decent first draft

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First, I want to say that all sports fans will enjoy Catching Hell. You don't have to be a baseball fan to get something out of the ESPN...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Why are so many kids today allergic to nuts?

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Are we going nuts about allergies? My son came home from school with a note asking us not to send in any food containing "peanuts/nut...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Does mainstreaming hurt educational outcomes?

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Stephen Donnelly TD (@donnellystephen) says our the state of our education system is a "national emergency." To support that thes...
Friday, September 09, 2011

Transition Year kills Mathematics learning

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The Minister for Education is "concerned" about the poor results our students are getting in mathematics. He's going to ...
Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Data-mining governments - an annoyance, but not a real danger to democracy

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I had to re-read Tom McGurk's column from this week's Sunday Business Post. I think this was because the headline – Legacy of Septe...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Leaving cannot be the be all and end all of college admissions

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If it weren't so darned important, it would be easy to dismiss the Leaving Cert. The reason it's important is simply because it'...
Monday, August 15, 2011

If Martin is best Fianna Fáil can do, they should fold up the tent now

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Micheál Martin is a political lightweight, which was made all too obvious the past week. He's always been too keen to be seen as 'ha...
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...
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