So Apple are going to release a new computer today.  It will be called the iSlate or the iTablet or something like that apparently (just google some techie blog to get some more information on that.
The Apple share price has doubled this year, which is amazing given the economy and how the recent recession has […]

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So, today there is a work to rule on with the public service unions.  This is indeed a controversial issue and one where there is no right side and no wrong side.
Naturally, as a public service worker, I have a particular interest in this dispute, though I am not on a work to rule, whatever […]

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Well, so much has happened since I last blogged. Where to start?The public service have taken a pay cut and there is an embargo on hiring and promotions for the past while.  I do understand how this has come about - we spend something North of 50,000,000,000 Euro per year and we only take in […]

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Tá áthas orainn in iúl duit go bhfuil tú bhuaigh an tsuim
de 485,000.00 GBP ó Yahoo! MSN (Windows Live) Gradaim
chlár.
ÍOC duais AGUS ÉILEAMH
Beidh Buaiteoirí a íoc i gcomhréir le aige / aici Lonnaíochta
Ionad. Ní mór Yahoo Gradam Duais ní a éileamh déanaí ná 15
lá ó dháta an fógra a Dear. Aon duais ní éileofar
Beidh laistigh […]

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That table in the TV3 filming room is getting a looooooad of business.  It is the same table in all TV programmes, just that they project a different front on it for the different programmes.

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The Fas board is being replaced. The Ceann Comhairle is being replaced. The Anglo Irish Bank crowd has been replaced. blah blah blah.
The Fas board replacement is entirely dependent on the composition of the new board.  will it be the union chiefs once again? Will it be political appointments?
Will the new Ceann Comhairle be spending […]

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LITERATURE PRIZE
Ireland’s police service (An Garda Siochana), for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means “Driving License”.

Who attended the ceremony
[Karolina Lewestam, a Polish citizen and holder of a Polish driver’s license, speaking on behalf of all […]

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The rate of autism in adults is the same as in children. The MMR jab only became available in the early 1990s and so if it caused autism, the rate of autism in children should be higher.
It isn’t!!
It is time to stop the nonsense being peddled by the anti-MMR crowd.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8268302.stm

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your name contains the word ‘edible’. Behold the edible dormouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_dormouse

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I read this morning that there is another death from swine flu. You can see the report here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0818/swineflu.html. The person was in an ‘at risk’ category, but the family do not want any other details released. Curiously, RTE uses the phrase when referring to the first person who died that “She had also been […]

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