The government has appointed a team to access the risks [registration cheat] of a tsunami hitting Ireland. They are even looking into the feasibility of setting up an early warning system. The move seems to have been prompted by a British Minister telling Gay Mitchell that Ireland and GB had been hit by a tsunami [...]
It’s been a very good day for the people of Iraq who have voted in their first multi-party election for 50 odd years. As opposed as I am to the war I have to admit that perhaps something good has come from it. The Iraqi people themselves relished the chance to vote and despite attacks [...]
The criticism must be getting to them because the GAA are going to modify the experimental sin-bin rule. Sean Kelly is expected to announce today that players who get sent to the sin-bin can be replaced by a substitute whereas before no substitute was allowed and the teams had to play on without the sin-binned [...]
Eamon O’Cuiv has approved the hiring of three Irish-speaking language therapists for the Gaeltacht regions. One of the serious problems for the Irish language community is lack of support services in Irish, so this small step should be welcome news.
The military geek in me can’t help but say “coooooool!” The US military are deploying 18 “robots” in Iraq. The robots are basically the same as the type of tracked robot used for bomb disposal but armed with machine guns! The robot, equipped with four cameras, night-vision and zoom lenses, is currently guided by a [...]
Good report from WebSideStory via CNET on the growing market share of Firefox. “From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers … used the Mozilla Foundation’s FireFox browser, a gain of 0.88 percentage points. At the same time, IE usage declined 0.7 percent to 92.7 percent…”
Been in the news since yesterday. The White House has confirmed that its search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had ended without finding anything. They searched for two years at a cost of millions and still came up empty handed. Shit lads, all you had to do was ask anyone and they’d have told [...]
Jeez, you’d think they’d be glad of the help but the feckin Indonesian Government is trying to make life difficult for people helping with the aid efforts in the tsunami hit region. Not only must aid workers register to travel outside of the towns (supposedly for safety) but now they have set a deadline for [...]
British TV reporter Martin Bashir is to testify for the prosecution at the Jackson trial. You may know Bashir from the documentary he made about Jackson a year or two back. I don’t think much of Jackson at all but felt sorry for him when I saw the documentary. New York based Bashir (Britains own [...]
According to the Indo (I don’t know why I read it either) Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair is on the run [registration cheat] from his UDA buddies. The Finnish will know the man as “Hullu Koira” (mad dog) because he visited Finland not so long ago. During one of his excursions abroad a couple of years [...]