Two Garda related stories in the news over the weekend. The first concerns the controversial Garda Reserve, the first batch of 40 Reserves started training last Saturday in Templemore. There has been a huge response to the drive to recruit Reserve Gardaí with over 6.6k applying to join so far. Personally I am against the [...]
What’s wrong with these people? Are they deliberately trying to be tossers? I don’t understand why they can’t just report the facts to us straight rather than push their own agenda, whatever that is. When they interviewed Niall Quinn prior to Sunderland naming Keane as manager they kept badgering Quinn asking the same questions over [...]
Ya know what I just discovered today, condoms ["did he say condoms? lordi, ye can't be talking about such things like that in public. What'll Fr. Michael say?!!"] are very expensive in Ireland. Most shops e.g. Dunnes, seem to only sell Durex which run at over €16 for a 12 pack (Dunnes price checked today), [...]
I just switched to Smart recently and discovered that I can no longer send emails (using my own email account thro. Thunderbird). I checked the Smart website and found that I need to switch my outgoing mail server to smtp.mysmart.ie. I did so and tested it but no-go. So I called Smart who said “change [...]
I don’t know, i’m just not convinced despite the sob story. Cynical Maca has a mistrust of politicians and finds it hard to believe there are any decent politicians in this country. Politician + money gifts/loans = yer average corrupt Irish politician? I dunno. What do you think? Lines are open!
Outstanding news for the Irish Defence Forces. From August of next year until July 2008 Ireland will take control of the peace keeping mission in Kosovo! They will be responsible for the “co-ordination of the Nato-led international task force in the Balkan state, commanding, controlling and directing operations”. While Irish Officers have served as Force [...]
Anyone make the unfortunate decision to watch yesterday’s All-Ireland Football Final? What an awful awful game, one of the worst I have seen in ages. What the heck happened to Mayo? Did all the pressure and expectation become too much and cause a mental breakdown? They weren’t in it at all yesterday, they never even [...]
It’s the end of an era. Tomorrow I finish work, been here over 5 years, and in 2 weeks or so we leave Finland, for good. We’ll be back in Ireland mid-July looking for work so if you know of anyone looking for a somewhat-talented exotic dancer give me a buzz. I also do bar [...]
…that’s what we’ll be called at official European Union meetings in the future, since Irish will be an official and working language from the start of next year! p.s. to clarify what should be obvious, name change applys to signage and name plates!
Myself and a friend were just doing a quick submarine search on Google Maps … well, little searching actually as he knew where to find most of them. Anyway here are a few of the subs you can find if you know where to look. All links point directly to the Google Maps locations. Finland [...]