A couple of interesting tidbits for you. Time photo essays If you’re not a regular visitor to Time.com you should consider paying it a visit once in a while. Check out their Photo essays section, there’s some damn interesting stuff there on various topics from sports to Middle Eastern politics. I thought Women Warriors was [...]
The old enemey does it again, Sweden takes gold in ice-hockey. It was a fantastic tournament for Finland but in the end they just couldn’t produce the goods in the final. Well done to Sweden on their deserved win … feckers.
Thank you to the Love Ulcer scum for bringing their hate to our fair capital. And thank you to the RepublicanSF scum for tearing up the city. Me ye all die roarin’.
The Finnish men’s ice hockey team did the stuff once again last night by knocking four past Russia to advance to the final. It was expected to be a tough match but Russia were somewhat disappointing and couldn’t find a way past the Finnish defence especially goalkeeper Antero Niittymäki who has been playing a stormer [...]
Just got my first (that i’m aware of) mention in a podcast … Conn’s (An t-Imeall) post/cast about the nominees in the Irish language category (Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog) of the Irish blog awards. Such publicity is always appreciated … as is cash and tea bags … just for future [...]
I’ve just discovered a competition I didn’t know existed … short track relay speed skating. What a totally hilarious sport. Picture it, speed skaters flying around the outside of a rink closely tracked by a whole bunch of skaters flying around the inside of the rink in a semi-organised mess. After a couple of laps [...]
Great news for all you Finnish ice-hockey fans in the Irish blogoshpere … erm, just me I guess … Finland have booked their place in the semi-finals after beating USA 4-3 in this evening’s match. The Finns are unbeaten in the competition so far having won all five preliminary round ties including a shut out [...]
This will probably be covered by a few blogs today. “An EU study has reportedly found that Irish people have poorer linguistic skills than the citizens of any other member state.” It doesn’t come as any real surprise does it? “two-thirds of Irish people questioned as part of the research admitted they could only speak [...]
As you may have read British historian David Irving has been sentenced to three years in jail in Austria for denying the holocaust happened. The charges against Irving were based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989. What happened to the “free speech” the Austrians were croaking about when they re-published [...]
As reported this week the UK are considering bringing in legislation to ban glorifying terrorists which could mean paramilitary songs and murals being outlawed. However the laws are supposed to be so vague that they will need to be tested in court before its full powers are delineated. The question I have relates to the [...]