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Happy New Year and Blogging the Election

January 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Personal, Social Media

Well It’s been quiet at Maman Poulet the last few weeks as I’ve travelled around abit doing festive things and today started a new job which due to the nature of the work involved I won’t be blogging about! Mulley is doing his usual 500 things at the one time and the blog awards date […]

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02.ie sucks

November 21st, 2006 · 47 Comments · Blogging, Personal

Dear O2 Your website is absolute rubbish. It has been absolute rubbish for years. 250 free texts a month my arse. It has always been designed to deter people from using it. The site is frequently down, being upgraded or telling me I am using an old browser. Well I am using Firefox 2.0 and […]

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Gis a job…

November 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Personal, Uncategorized

I’m in ‘Maman Poulet needs a job’ mode at the moment – various job interviews, sweaty palms, new suits, big smiles, crap answers to questions, finding out there will be second interviews, sweating over the weekend waiting to hear, drafting yet another CV and letter of application. And then there is the ‘if I mention […]

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Patience of a Patient

October 17th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Disability, Personal

Dear Health Professional I had the displeasure of being treated by this morning, It was our first meeting today, we’ll be seeing each other every week or so for the next 6-8 weeks. Your first words to me were to lecture me on being 10 minutes late. You didn’t ask how I was or realise […]

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In blogs we trust (well maybe not blogger)

August 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on In blogs we trust (well maybe not blogger) · Blogging, Irish Media, Personal, Uncategorized

If you are one of those readers of today’s Irish Independent (registration required) congratulations on your ingenuity in getting here – typical that the interview I did a month ago coincides with blogging chaos on Maman Poulet with spammers having taken my blogspot address and before I have had time to move house properly. You’re […]

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