Via Ciarán’s very very roundabout route comes this wee site: Unphotographable. There are times when you might be travelling (for example) and see something interesting but not have a camera at hand. So if you can’t capture the moment on film capture it through words. Nice idea.
Alex Bruce, son of Steve Bruce, who was selected by Northern Ireland last week for an under-21 match against Israel has now declared for the Rep.Ireland. Alex is entitled to play for either the Republic or Northern Ireland through his grandparents but chose Rep.Ireland purely because they are a better team. If that’s the only [...]
The second round of the Finnish Presidential Election was today and Tarja Halonen was re-elected by a tiny margin. She claimed just 51.8% of the votes beating off Conservative candidate Sauli Niinisto. Halonen would be my choice too, I think she’s a better ambassador for Finland than “neo-liberal hawk” Niinisto. Thankfully this candidate, Timo Soini, [...]
The draw for the Euro 2008 qualifiers has taken place. In Rep.Ireland’s (24, FIFA ranking) group (D) … Wales (71), Cyprus (96), San Marino (155), Slovakia (44), Germany (16) and the Czech Republic (2). Not as bad as I expected, it’s almost manageable … apart from the Czechs. UEFA Euro 2008 FIFA Rankings
Back in November I posted some news on browsers, mainly Firefox and related extensions but I also mentioned the release of Opera Mini, a web browser for mobile phones, which was initially released only to users in Nordic countries. Well Opera have now officially launched the scaled for mobile version of their browser (2 days [...]
Sad to see Chris Penn has been found dead at his home in Santa Monica, he was only 40. Chris was the younger brother of Sean Penn and starred in a number of films including Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Mulholland Falls, Rush Hour and many others. No news of the cause of death yet.
Jaypers, who’d have thunk it … whale vomit … $20 per gram … feckin hell. An Australian couple may net up to US$295,000 after finding sperm whale vomit on a South Australian beach! So next time you find waxy smelly rocks on the beach it might just be “floating gold” … then again it might [...]
24/01/2006 – The IRA must end all involvement in criminality if there is to be political progress in Northern Ireland, Democratic Unionist leader the Rev Ian Paisley insisted tonight. 24/01/2007 – The IRA must apologise for all the innocent loyalist terrorists they killed during the Troubles and must lick the sweat from the arse crack [...]
United absolutely hammered the scousers yesterday … eh, 1-nil. Further south Chelski’s slide began with a 1-1 draw with Charlton, ending their 100% home league record, dropping two valuable points and allowing United to close the gap to a mere 14 points. This surely must be the beginning of the end for Chelski as United [...]
Just a reminder about the Irish Blog Awards, nominations are closing in just 3 days time (on Jan 23rd) so get your nominations in while you still can. If you’re not sure who to vote for just start with the list of blogs in the right hand column of the Raiméis front page or head [...]