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Irishelection.com

November 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

All new and Shiny…. Irishelection.com gets more than a facelift. I bags an IE hoodie – when that bit is ready. But go enjoy the rest of it!!

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The Business Editor, the auctioneer and the firing

November 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Media, Uncategorized

Richard Delevan, business editor at the Sunday Tribune, sometime blogger and a bit of a general social media/tech evangelical type lost his job yesterday. He and I were never going to agree politically but he ‘got’ blogging and told other people about it and was a very entertaining speaker at last years Blogging the Election […]

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They don’t make them like this anymore….

November 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Cop Out, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy, Uncategorized

Michael D. tells Martin Mansergh some truths about republicanism.

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The Dublin-Waterford Train and people who think they have a right to a seat because they paid for it

October 31st, 2007 · 5 Comments · Consumer blogging, Disability, eejit.., Equality, Irish Rail, Uncategorized

I get more than a few visits to the blog – Google is kind to me – lots of google searches for Steve Staunton, Niall McElwee, more recently People in Need land here. This morning a commuter from yesterdays Dublin-Waterford 4.25pm train searched visited and went to the post on signage for people with disabilities […]

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Rights not Charity – I rest my case

October 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Disability, eejit.., People In Need, Telethon, Uncategorized

So the holiers were blissful and I return post ‘C’mon Everybody‘. What did I miss? Gwan fill me in!? 28 degree Tenerife turned into freezing Dublin quickly enough today and I had my first hot chocolate of the ‘season’. Whilst waiting for herself to emerge from Butlers on Henry Street I had a first. I […]

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