The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom Which means that UK-registered aircraft will in future offer mobile services; which in turn means that eventually such services will be rolled out across Europe. Don’t know about you but I’ve always found travelling stressful enough, especially [...]

Via Ocean FM, a proposed revamp of the Gaeltacht could see a number of towns losing their Gaeltacht status: Towns such as Dungloe and Burtonport in Donegal, Dingle, Belmullet in Co.Mayo and parts of Galway city would lose their Gaeltacht status if the linguisitic criteria was implemented. I’m sure many people will object to this, [...]

The Defence Forces’ biggest logistics operation ever moved on to the next phase as a cargo ship left Dublin port today stuffed to the gills with equipment for the 372 men and women of the 97th Inf Batt and the 50 ARW personnel who have been in Chad since last month (the ARW obviously brought [...]

Police in Italy have issued footage of a man who is suspected of hypnotising supermarket checkout staff to hand over money from their cash registers. It probably seemed like a deadly idea at the time. Remember, with great power comes great chances to rip people off … or something like that.

Via RTÉ news … US Democrat Hillary Clinton has admitted being wrong in her claim that a hail of sniper fire ambushed her arrival on a 1990s trip to Bosnia. How could you possibly get that wrong?? “Oh, ya know what that was? It must have been raining heavily … like hailstones or something! Yeah, [...]

Just spotted via Technorati’s ‘blog reactions’, it seems that one of my posts has caught the attention, not in a good way, of some blogger by the name of Felix Quigley. You’ll know by now, if you have been with me here for a while, that I’ve always supported our Defence Forces especially in the [...]