Irish Eagle
Friday, August 29, 2014

Autoflush toilets are crap

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Okay, I know this subject that is not quite suitable for civilized discourse, but this has to be said: the absolute worst new technology dev...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

What else can the state do to "protect" children from their parents?

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The Seanad passed a bill today to outlaw smoking in cars carrying children. It will, apparently, sail through the Dáil and become law. Than...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Why use "US" when you mean "American"?

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This headline from the Daily Telegraph annoys me: British teenager dies after shooting of US police officer . And, yes, I realize that the u...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Someone at the Belfast Telegraph needs to proof-read their blog posts

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It's possible Dr Timofey Agarin is not a native English speaker. If that's the case, then someone at the Belfast Telegraph should ha...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

@PhilHoganTD Charge by volume, not weight, if you want to encourage recycling

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Maybe it's my jaundiced eye, but I can't help thinking that this is a "bad thing" in the mind of the journalist who wrote ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

An "oleaginous" name change propsal in Limerick

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I love this one sentence. I know nothing about the move to rename a bridge in Limerick after JFK. I don't know the Shannon Bridge in L...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Dear Minister Quinn: digital does not = iPad

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Clare Daly asked Ruairí Quinn about a secondary school in Lusk, Co Dublin looking for parents to buy €700 "iPad systems" (her wor...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Lidl is here to stay

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Tesco, Dunnes & Superquinn are losing out to the "the lower price stores." In fact, five times as many people are shopping in...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Christie's problem: it's not the underhandedness. It's the nitwittedness.

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Look I don't believe there are any angels in politics, especially American politics. That my side is as capable of turning to dirty tri...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Paying the Property Tax

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I'm as keen to NOT pay tax as the next person, but I gotta admit the Revenue Commissioners' web site sure is efficient and easy to u...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The elite moaning about elitism

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The Seanad is "elitist." I just can't get over how many times I've seen that on Twitter. What exactly makes it elitist? Oh...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

2016 – "More charismatic than Scott Walker, more conservative than Chris Christie"

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I'd actually forgotten about Mike Pence. I had no idea what he was up to until I came across this column from the Daily Caller . I ha...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Why should Ireland support France's demands to exclude audiovisual products from trade talks?

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Is Ireland better off if movies and television are excluded from EU-US free trade talks? Danielle Auroi - French deputy of the European Gr...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

OMG #CCVEN - Children should vote? LOL

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The Constitutional Convention - aka talk shop for those with too little do - has proposed that children should be allowed to vote. Now, not ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

For the Met fan - @MetsPolice's eBook is great fun. Buy it.

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I mentioned on Twitter that I got a 2nd hand Kindle last week. I got it from a family member who had no need for this Version 1 Kindle now t...
Friday, February 01, 2013

United's prices on flights between Dublin and Newark

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I've tried this a few times and it's always the same. If you check flights on United from Dublin to Newark the price is about €65 hi...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

EU Presidency, the G8 - The Gathering is a guaranteed "success" for the Irish government

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I have to admit I'm slow sometimes, but the penny well and truly dropped for me & The Gathering with today's announcement about ...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Engineers can be math teachers

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If Irish engineering graduates don't have sufficient mathematical training to qualify as math teachers at second level there is either s...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Landfill overflowing? Charge by volume, not weight

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The Irish EPA is wrong to recommend that customers be charged by weight for trash collection if they are genuinely concerned about landfill...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Do we need a 3rd option on the EUref ballot paper?

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I don't use foul language as a rule. I prefer anything I write to be "PG" at worst. Yet, the more I think about the coming ref...
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