Daily Archives: September 15, 2005

Irelands population highest in 144yrs

Interesting to read that Ireland’s population hit 4.13million [registration cheat] last April, the highest it has been since 1861!! Natural population increase as well as an influx of immigrants (70,000 in the year to April 2005) combined to stretch our population by 2.2% which is way ahead of the rest of Europe. Not only have [...]

Migrating birds

I saw the most amazing migration of birds the other evening. Ok, birds tend to migrate whenever i’m in the pub, usually to the opposite corners, but i’m referring to our feathered friends here. We were just going shopping and as we parked our car we saw hundreds of cranes flying overhead [where else can [...]