Christ almighty what a humongous beast! In Cuas an Bhodaigh, Co.Kerry yesterday they hauled a giant leatherback turtle out of the water after it became caught in nets. This reptile is truly a giant, it weighs well over 70 stone (445kg), is 7ft long and 6ft wide and is estimated to be up to 100 [...]

With all this talk of Big Brother and the Farm I started thinking, isn’t it about time we came up with a proper reality show, one which is fun to watch and actually benefits us all? Here’s my proposal, Political Survivor, I even have the first few seasons mapped out. Season 1: 20 politicians on [...]

The Mighty Celt is a new Pearse Elliott flick based in Northern Ireland. What caught my attention is that Scully (Gillian Anderson, X-Files) stars in it, and must imitate the Belfast brogue. (Robert Carlyle is there too btw) This leads me to a segment I like to call “Actors who impersonate an Irish accent and [...]

As of yesterday Microsoft now owns small VoIP services/software provider Teleo. They plan to integrate Teleo into their MSN services infrastructure “with plans to ultimately deliver new VoIP consumer applications in future releases of MSN services, such as MSN Messenger.” Skype are the big name in VoIP at the moment but now Microsoft, Google and [...]