Much as I hate to drive congestion charges off the front page, the hour is nearly upon us and just over 24 hours remains till the defining moment of our time, the day of reckoning, the final denouement in the grand spectacle of the Irish Blog Awards will be here..
With the weight of the entire [...]
I ended up on KFM (local radio) this morning debating congestion charges with Noel Shannon. I was listening to the programme at home yesterday morning (a rare treat, I was working from home) and they had some reaction from listeners to the idea of congestion charges and other transport proposals which the Minister had announced [...]
The Taoiseach’s evidence before the Tribunal over the last few days unearthed a lot of interesting questions to say the least.
Most of these related to the complex tapestry of relationships and personnel surrounding the St Lukes constituency apparatus and are specific to the minutiae of that gargantuan knot. However one that deserves consideration in a [...]
My ten year daughter old taught me something very interesting today. She told me about the Baobab tree which grows in Tanzania and is reputed to live up to 3,000 years old. The tree has a symbiotic relationship with its neighbours, the peoples who live around it as the tree provides for them in every [...]
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet**”
With the week that’s in it, Roses appear an appropriate analogy to begin this post. The lines spoken by Juliet from the Capulet’s tower decry the labelling of Romeo, a Montague by name, a sweetheart still the same..
It’s something [...]
I’ve just been catching up the latest developments stateside over at realclearpolitics.com and of course the big news this weekend is that Obama has clinched three more states namely Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska givining him momentum, if not yet a delegate lead, over his rival Ms. Clinton.
The NY times has an excellent election dashboard, where [...]
It’s rare enough that myself and the London Telegraph would be in agreement. One of the ‘yellow press’ my grandfather was so scornful of (long memories after they did for Parnell), the ‘Torygraph’ is sometimes synonymous with punch cartoons and ‘Oirish’ sterotyping.
We do agree on one thing however. The majesty of St Pancras railway station [...]
That greeting may seem a little unseasonal right now but this week marks New Year in the Chinese calendar. Working in IT guarantees an international workforce and some of my colleagues have even taken the week off to go home for the celebrations. It makes for an interesting bunch of holiday requests as some of [...]
Met with Irish Rail last week as planned. Was a good meeting. Myles (our Irish Rail contact) has an amiable approach and is always willing to hear our side of the story. He’s met us half-way many times in the past and at this stage I feel we finally have the service looking good on [...]