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My poor son. He’s only 2 years and 4 months old but in another 60 years he will still be paying for Fianna Fáil’s failed policy of throwing cash at problems in the hopes that a solution may present itself. No doubt by now you are all fed up of hearing about NAMA, “going forward [...]

Apparently just by copying & pasting the quotes below I can be fined up to €25,000 as The Republic of Ireland’s utterly draconian blasphemy law has come into effect just a couple of hours ago. I’m an equal opportunity offender though so courtesy of blasphemy.ie here is as much blasphemy as I can copypasta. List [...]

Last week a friend and I took ourselves off down to the Black Valley in Co. Kerry. The Black Valley has the distinction of being the last part of Ireland to be connected to the national electricity grid. Indeed it is still something of a black spot for telecommunications. As recently as last week a [...]

You may have already seen my earlier post with the photo of the fossils on Hook Head. I took quite a good few photos of elsewhere on the Hook and here are some of them:

Some of the insanity going on in this country at the moment: The Financial Regulator is getting plush new offices to the tune in €8m paid for out of government funds. By the same government who said that there was not enough money to spend €10m on a cervical cancer vaccine! (Thanks to Grandad for [...]

Some one with the Polish name “Prawo Jazdy” managed to rack up over 50 motoring offences by June 2007 and finally the Gardai have managed to figure out who “he/she” is. “Prawo Jazdy” is Polish for “Driving Licence” Apparently unlike our paper licences, the Polish one is a credit card sized ID type jobby. With [...]

I took the photo below exactly a year ago.  I don’t know what it is with cows or cattle but they always make great subjects for photographs. The lad below is a highland cow that as I passed his field almost caused me to veer into the nearby ditch! I certainly wasn’t expecting to see [...]

Spotted these two Black-headed Gulls the other day while out walking with Lucas. The one on the right of the picture really only has one leg. The primary school I went to is just a little further down the road from where that photo was taken and at lunch time there would be hoards of [...]