As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? On The Blog This Week: Scotts Weedol – they own shamrock [irish] moss peat I need a something…? wonder of I’ll ever find it Greenpeace are a... Similar posts

MindField Rocks the Art of Conversation, It’s the break from Music into literary items and debate for those who have interests in politics and current affairs brought to you in association with RTE Radio one. It’s three day, seven venue conversation for the nation with seven elegantly decorated tented locations in the Mindfield arena at electric picnic, located behind the Main stage of Electric Picnic. Leviathan: Political Cabaret Back again for another year, its politics and current affairs debate with satirical twist, hosted by David McWilliams, each day starts with chat and fun, Ryan Tudbridy will be orchestrating picnic brunch and Mindfield news quiz. British comic and graphic novelist Pat Mills will join too and Steve Bell will attend for the big comic... Similar posts

As you may well know, Peter Nagle’s 2UIBestow is my favourite Irish music blog. He’s always first to find out about great new acts, like Resurrection Fern, who he reviewed yesterday. What you may not know is that Peter runs an excellent live music event at Boyle’s pub in Navan, Co. Meath. Over the next... Similar posts

Phew! July is speeding to a climactic finish and I am still trying to digest all that has happened since last we spoke. It is always a dangerous thing to take ‘a few days for myself’ away from the blog. I felt I deserved it after the wonderful chaos and community of ‘A Midsummer Day’s Dream’ but a few days became a week and suddenly the Festival was upon me. Chances of blogging during Festival – slim to none. Things to blog about during Festival – incalculable! So let’s get started… Fiddler’s Green Festival takes place every year in my boooootiful home town of Rostrevor. Since the beginning of my memories living here (we moved from Belfast when Lil Sis No.1 was born, so I was 4) the Festival has been the mark of mid-summer... Similar posts

Aitheasc an Uachtaráin Ruairí Ó Brádaigh don 85ú Ard-Fheis de Shinn Féin in Óstlann an Spa , Leamhcán , Co. Atha Cliath , 21ú agus 22ú Deireadh Fómhair , 1989 / Presidential Address of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh to the 85th Ard-Fheis of Sinn Féin in the Spa Hotel , Lucan , County Dublin , 21st and 22nd October 1989....." We must prepare and organise in all Six Counties to oppose publicly any effort to swallow such a British oath for a future Stormont which would belittle and degrade the Republican cause. Likewise we must oppose any attempt to participate in yet another 'New Stormont' or the Westminster Parliament itself, in the name of Ireland and Irish Republicanism. This is our Republican duty and we must fulfill it at all costs.In the European election in June last we took a... Similar posts

New price label for Arnotts with influence from Anglo Irish Bank Truly a mad country. Any articles/blog posts/photos/stuff of interest I could blog about here ? Send the link direct to my iPhone now... Similar posts

....I don't even know anything about Star Wars....just go with me on the movie title theme! So friends it appears I spoke to soon in my last blog about my good health. I have written a poem to explain exactly what happened since I last rambled. Here you go (the space is funny on this, there are suppose to be no spaces only every 6 lines)                   -1- La Ventanilla on the Pacific CoastThese mornings is where I eat my toastI haven't decided what this poem is aboutIt might take a few lines to figure outMaybe it could be about Gastroenteristis: The ReturnAnd how for some chocolate I yearn!                   -2- Ok... Similar posts

I recently updated my website, and changed the colours of this blog. They were definitely in need of a spring clean. Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions for the new look. You can check it here Filed under: blogs, canvas, graffiti, murals, public art Tagged: art, blogs, graffiti, irish graffiti, irish urban art, john o 'reilly, jor, jorgallery, website... Similar posts

Nah. It can't be. It has NOT been over a week since I last posted! Because if that were true (which would be ABSURD), that'd mean that I'm over halfway through my trip! Which means I'm getting deported in under 3 weeks! :-O Since we all agree that that CANNOT POSSIBLY be the case, let's continue on under the assumption that it is now... Friday! Friday the 23rd of July! So what has happened in the FIVE DAYS since I've last posted? Well, I've turned 18 (still a minor in Japan, which means that I have ABSOLUTELY NOT BEEN DRINKING. Nope. Nuh-uh. Any photos I upload of the birthday itself will totally NOT have been Photoshopped, as a result), finished high school (again!), and eaten natto! If you don't get the reference, Google it and you'll see why I mention it! Westerners are supposed to... Similar posts

I’d like to extend a warm welcome to the folks from mylunch.ie who’s blog has now joined the Thrift.ie website – the Irish Consumer Aggregator website. From their own website, the mylunch.ie philosophy is: We feel lunch plays an important role in Irish society and people deserve a chance to optimise their lunching experience. Having noticed that there are some great lunch offers available we thought it would be a fantastic idea to make people more aware of them, and so www.mylunch.ie was born. No longer will you have to go to the effort of walking aimlessly attempting to decipher handwriting on many a dusty blackboard in order to find the best lunch value around. Instead, a few simple clicks on our unique, daily-updated website provides you with all you... Similar posts

Jason Falls is one of the leading educators and thinkers in the social media, public relations and communications industries. He has the unique perspective of having lead a national advertising agency’s Interactive and social media efforts, worked with Fortune 100 brands as a social media strategist and served as an independent consultant in the social media industry. He has advised major, regional and niche brands including Humana, General Motors, The Envelope Manufacturers of America, Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark bourbons, Louisville Slugger, and The National Center for Family Literacy. His work has resulted in acclaim and recognition in publication and honors, including a 2009 SAMMY Award for Best Integrated Social/Cross Media Campaign. One of the most in-demand speakers in the social... Similar posts

Eoin Colfer features in the Irish Times – live from Paris (and the Guardian have a chat with him too) R.J. Anderson and Saundra Mitchell talk faith and fantasy and Meg Rosoff looks at biography and writing real life characters into fiction. Frank Cottrell Boyce reviews Louis Sachar’s excellent The Cardturner: Reading his books is like being hustled in a card game by someone who seems straight-talking and modest but who turns out to be a virtuoso card sharp. So is The Cardturner one big bluff or is he really holding all the trumps? I don’t want to spoil it for you but he does something towards the end of this book that I can’t imagine anyone else even trying to get away with. As Uncle Lester might say, nicely played, Louis. The Famous Five are pulling their... Similar posts

This coming October, we are holding the first ever Pink Auction in Cork City. The auction will bring together many people with two goals —- to promote creative textiles in Ireland and to raise money for Action Breast Cancer, a programme of the Irish Cancer Society. People within the community as well as around the country are participating by making and donating handcrafted creative textile items to be auctioned off. The event will take place at The Imperial Hotel on Sunday, 10th October 2010.  We are on Ravelry, Facebook, Twitter, and have our own blog. The more support we can get the more we can do and the better it is for breast cancer awareness. Our flyer is at the top of this page of our blog: http://pinkcork.blogspot.com/p/media.html   The Pink Auction... Similar posts

I’m no film buff by any standard. I hold close company with quite a few good friends who are either in love with, or involved with the film industry in Ireland. Friends range from passing interest to full blown career. So much so that I was dragged to went willingly to the Galway Film Fleadh. On first account, this seems a preposterous notion. I’ve seen about 3 films in the last 12 months in the cinema. Anything else I probably saw via illegal manner, and fell asleep before anything finished. I’m a music fan, and unashamedly so, so while I do enjoy a good film, I prefer to see what I want to see, rather then what’s been recommended to me (though often that involves quite a bit of crossover). Galway was amazing. As my first fleadh, or film festival in general, I was... Similar posts

To take the plunge and actually open a pub in Ireland at the moment takes some serious bravery. Pubs are struggling in Ireland because more and more people drink at home. The reason? Prices are probably the biggest reason. When you can get a can of fizzy yellow stuff for less than a Euro and then go to the pub and get the same beer for €5 or more, there is just no value to be had. Publicans blame the smoking ban but I think that is rubbish as I know of plenty of people who never went to pubs because of the smoking and only since the ban do we venture in to pubs. I am one of those people.So who set up the pub? Well it is the joint venture of two Irish Craft Brewer members. Colin (session) and Séaneen (9beanrow). Neen actually is the author of popular (mouthwatering) beer and food blog... Similar posts

Instead of doing the same thing that you’ve always done, hoping that eventually things will magically get better again. There were two articles within 24 hours of each other recently that inspired this particular rant. The first was from Twenty Major in his “Tourism Suggestions” blog post. Straight out, he touches on a subject I wrote about here some time ago – the misguided focusing of tourism people on the so called “tourism tax” as the reason why people aren’t coming to Ireland: So fewer people are coming to Ireland. Numbers are 25% down apparently and tourism bosses want the €10 tourist tax scrapped. Which kind of misses the point. That tax is no expensive, it’s everything else. He goes on to point out how detached from... Similar posts

I've been looking around for ways to digest and annotate and make lengthy reports more usable for years. One of the main ways to do with would be through named entity extraction running the report through a program and extracting all key words, and sorting them into proper names, places, organisations, companies etc. I have looked around and there are lots of university thesis papers on how to do it but it seems nobodies cracked it, unless mega corporations maybe able to do it on a industrial level. You could also paste it all the report into a wiki and hope people will annotate and link sections of the report, but wiki's aren't easy to use and there no way to automate it even a little that I know of. Entity extraction has come back in vogue at the moment particularly in conjunction... Similar posts

¡Hola from Chilecito! I've delayed posting this for a few days, because I stupidly stood on my camera lead, and now I can't upload my photos! I'm annoyed because I took lots of great photos to accompany the blog but unfortunately I just can't find a way to get them on the computer! Anyways the show must go on... My time here is flying by  and I can't believe I've been here for over 4 weeks already!! I'm still getting on really well in my project and with my host family, and learning a little bit more Spanish every day! Things have been a little bit quieter at the comedor for the past two weeks as its the winter holdays from school and its been really cold, so not as many kids have shown up. Its been good though, I've been able to get to know the kids that are around a whole... Similar posts

This blog mentions a good number of festivals each year.Last night saw the launch of this year's "largest free festival in Belfast" ... Belfast Pride. It's twenty years since the first pride parade through Belfast. To mark the milestone, the organisers produced a half hour documentary Pride, Sweat and Tears looking back at the parades and the festival that grew out of it.Pride marches around the world are very much small 'p' political events, asserting people's rights and making a collective and proud stand against prejudice that remains in most societies. Last night's launch was an opportunity for Belfast's current Lord Mayor, Councillor Pay Convery, to turn up and support the local LGBT community. Speaking before the screening, he commented on Belfast City Council's support for the... Similar posts