Mugabe for Taoiseach
Why do we need to elect a new Taoiseach who has no experience when a leader with a proven track record and 27 years experience?
Add comment April 3rd, 2008
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Recruit Ireland looking for new Taoiseach
Someone put an ad up on Recruit Ireland looking for a new Taoiseach.
Screenshot here if it has been removed
1 comment April 2nd, 2008
You know you are from Kerry when…..
1. You say “the Gaeltacht” and expect everyone to know which one.
2. The only reason you would play soccer or rugby was because you were useless at football.
3. You know that Carrantouhill is not only the highest mountain in Ireland, but is the highest mountain in Kerry.
4. Sheep and goats on the main road to Dingle are invisible.
5. You go to Mass every Sunday. The only prayer you know is the”Ar nAthair”, but you get all the news from last night in town from the boys at the back.
6. You always give Americans the wrong directions for Ballybunion.
7. You tell your friends from up the country that you know Maurice and the Gooch well.
8. Your back door is never locked and the key is under the bin anyway if it is.
9. You consider eye contact a guaranteed score with a someone
10. You call your local GAA pitch “the field above”.
11. You hate Cork!!!
12. You think Tralee is “gone mad with the houses lately”….
14. The site out in the field is yours once you are ready to settle down.Roughly at the age of thirty five. If you’re lucky.
16. You went on holidays to Trabolgan or Mosney when you were younger.
17. You laugh at the fools with their fancy haircuts and fashion from up the country. Throw on the chequered shirt,roll up the sleeves,tuck it into the Levi’s 501, and slip on the “going out” boots.
18.Mom will have the dinner ready by the time you get home.” Ahno,its Friday…..fish…jesus..”
19. You were only ever up the North for an underage football blitz or on a school-tour.
20. You’re suspicious of people from the North.
21. You think Charlie Haughey was a legend.
22. You heard the new Tesco in Tralee was even bigger than the one in Killarney.
23. You dont care if Fungi dies.
24. You don’t hear sirens.
25. You have never actually climbed Carrantouhill.
26. You’re waiting for the final.
27. You only go to Dublin for the All-Ireland final weekend.You go to Coppers after Flannerys on the Saturday night.You have to meet a fella for
a ticket Sunday morning outside the Gresham.
28. The owner of your local pub is a selector on your club team.His son-in-law trains the team and is a full-time football coach.The coach’s
brother is a carpenter who employs 5 of yourteam-mates. The carpenter’s wife is a sister of the ex-Kerry Rose.Her husband is the hairdresser’s
brother.The hairdresser’s husband is the third selector on your club team. The selector also does the rubs in the dressing-room before the game.There are 5 brothers on the team.
29. Your cousin who left for Australia 12 months ago is now employing 3 other carpenters and has his own van and tools. He’s loaded and is never
gonna come home. He went to the beach on Christmas Day.
30. You think that the fellas who dont play football are gay
Add comment March 26th, 2008
The Muppets sing Danny Boy
This is funny, but you know I have never heard this sung in Ireland. It is really an American Anthem. I don’t even know the words.
1 comment March 21st, 2008
Paddys Weekend 2008
I have uploaded the Paddys Weekend Pictures to the Gallery. I took hundreds but managed to trim it down to around 85 pictures for the site.
3 comments March 19th, 2008
Music firms take Eircom to court over downloads
I read the following in the Examiner and on Digg today about the Music Industries trying to force Eircom to filter my internet connection and limit my bandwidth.
A) Why should any ISP monitor traffic. I don’t want anybody monitoring any of my activies be they on the internet or elsewhere. I value my privacy. Not that I have anything to hide mind I just don’t trust the competence of the people holding this data.
Also I download legal files using torrents etc. so why should I suffer downloading these files because people choose to use that technology to download copyrighted material?
B) Why is downloading movies “hogging bandwidth”? I paid for my DSL line. Why shouldn’t I use it. I think this is why this action will never win. If Eircom limit the bandwidth you can use for torrents etc. people won’t need bigger, and more expensive connections, and Eircom will lose money.
So to save this money Eircom will fight tooth and nail. Which is good news for the rest of us.
From The Examiner:
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As CD sales on the Irish market continue to plummet, showing losses of €44 million in the past six years, four of the largest record companies have taken Eircom to the High Court over illegal music downloads.
In the first case of its kind, the record companies are taking on the primary internet service provider rather than individual so-called pirates.
The music industry estimates that for every single legal download there are 20 illegal ones. Latest figures show that on a global scale 20 billion music files were illegally downloaded in 2006.
Because of illegal downloading and other market factors, the Irish music industry is experiencing “a dramatic and accelerating decline” in income, said Willie Kavanagh, managing director of EMI records (Ireland) and chairman of the Irish Recorded Music Association.
The Irish market for sound recordings suffered a decline in total sales from €146m in 2001 to €102m last year, a fall of 30%, he said.
A substantial portion of the decline in sales could be attributed to illegal downloading services and the increasing availability of broadband internet access here, said Mr Kavanagh.
He said legal actions brought against persons with the highest numbers of illegal files on their computers at specific times had proven very costly and time consuming. The companies believed selective legal action was not sufficient to safeguard their property rights.
The four leading record labels — EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner — have brought the High Court action aimed at compelling Eircom, as the largest broadband internet service provider in the state, to take specific measures to prevent its networks being used for the illegal free downloading of music.
The companies are challenging Eircom’s refusal to use filtering technology or other appropriate measures to voluntarily block or filter material from its network, which is being used to download music in violation of the companies’ copyright and licensing rights.
The proceedings arose after Eircom told the companies last October it was not in a position to run the filter software on its servers.
In his affidavit, Mr Kavanagh outlined measures by the record industry aimed at discouraging record piracy, including public awareness campaigns and legal actions against individuals engaged in piracy.
Mr Kavanagh said illegal downloaders come from all walks of life and the reality for many young people was that they have never known a position where they actually have to pay for sound recordings.
From Digg:
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It looks like the IFPI has shifted its focus from the individual filesharer to the ISPs. Last month, the IFPI won a court case in Denmark, and the ISP “Tele2″ was ordered to block all access to The Pirate Bay. Tele2 announced later that it will fight the decision.
Banning illegal filesharing from their network, voluntary or not, is in the best interest of ISPs according to the IFPI: “Illegal P2P file-sharing may have helped drive broadband subscriptions in the past, yet today these activities, particularly in respect of movies, are hogging bandwidth,” they state.
2 comments March 11th, 2008
Polish Immigration Poll
The Irish government recently ran a poll among it’s citizens regarding Polish Immigration:
Is the Polish immigration a serious problem?
35% respondents responded “Yes, it is a serious problem!”
65% respondents said: “Absolutnie kurwa żaden!”
4 comments February 11th, 2008
Guinness Hurling Advert
I was going through some hurling videos in YouTube and I came across this ad. I remember it ran for ages. A great ad. But Guinness always make great adverts.
Add comment January 8th, 2008
Pictures of the Earthrace Boat in Cork
An engineer and sailor from New Zealand still hopes to circumnavigate the globe in world-record time at the helm of a boat powered in part by Bio-Fuel, including human body fat!
Wired have a write up on it as part of their looking back on 2007 articles. I took a few photos of it using my camera phone when it was here in Cork. Beautiful looking boat.
Add comment December 27th, 2007
