Irish Eagle
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Minister Kelly serves up the laughs

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I missed this bit of nonsense from Alan Kelly last week, but I almost laughed myself silly when I saw it in today's Irish Times : Last ...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Cyclists need insurance?

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Wait! Cyclists have to have insurance ? I never knew that. " Close to 200,000 bikes have been bought under the Bike-to-Work scheme si...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

If the seas are rising why are we building along the seafront?

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Electric cars, massive windfarms, carbon taxes - the government has dedicated a lot of our resources to "doing our bit" in the fig...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Facebook is clever ... and really creepy

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There are times when Facebook gives me the creeps with the people it suggests I add as a friend. No reflection on the people themselves, wha...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

The #ASTI & #TUI - on strike to defend the meaningless Junior Cert

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Philip Irwin of the ASTI attempts to justify his union's ridiculous strike action today with a column in the Irish Examiner . He makes a...
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...
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