Daily Archives: February 22, 2006

Winter Olympics Commentary: Funny sports

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 [...]

Winter Olympics: Flying Finns march on

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 [...]

Worst linguistic skills in Europe

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 [...]