I’d heard via Slugger that the Sunday Indo launched a ‘stinging editorial on the EU’s recognition of the Irish language’ so I went asearching. I don’t know if this is the one Mick was referring to but Brendan O’Connor has cúpla focal [registration cheat] to say. It’s quite possible the article is tongue in cheek [...]

You have possibly noticed that on every forum or mailing list where you are likely to get some Irish somebody has raised the question of how to add fadas. And in response people have posted all kinds of solutions like using a character map, or downloading keyboard layouts or using Alt Gr, or even using [...]

A friend recently returned from a stay in China and had some interesting advice to give to others travelling there. Of the many points he raised two in particular stood out for me, basically because I have a sick mind, food and ‘food disposal’. To deal with the latter first … generally in China they [...]