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Irish Blog Awards
18:53
Irish Blog Awards are on Twitter if you want to be updated on website updates.
Congratulations to all who made it this far, a massive massive thank you to all the judges who worked their socks off to bring us to this point.
Judging Round 1 is now do...
FlicksNews.net
05:01
Best Motion Picture of the YearThe Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg ShapiroBest Achievement in DirectingKathryn Bigelow for The Hurt LockerBest Performance by an Actress in a Leading RoleSandra Bullock for The Blind S...
Irish Election
00:17
There is no doubt that the resignation of Martin Cullen, when taken with that of Willie O’Dea, presents Brian Cowen with a golden opportunity in the forthcoming reshuffle. The current travails of Mary Harney only adds to the list of ministers ...
Nialler9 Music Blog
00:02
Panda Bear A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin.
Highlights this week include Panda Bear, Filthy Dukes, Local Natives (with Peggy Sue supporting), Passion Pit, The Beatyard on Saturday Afternoon and Ellie Goul...
gaelick
16:51
Tomorrow, 8th March, is International Women’s Day (IWD). “Oh, but why does there need to be an International Women’s Day?” some may wonder. Well, really. When I hear questions like that – or, heaven forfend, questions ...
Simply Zesty» – SimplyZe...
19:49
I was at Wordcamp this weekend and a talk by Darragh Doyle got me thinking about social media and blogging for beginners. It’s very easy when you are immersed in the online world of social media to come out with statements like “just th...
State Magazine
11:55
So a little later than usual, it’s the second instalment in the newly revitalised State podcast series. Still looking for that elusive title to the series, Jules and Laura return to bring you music, mindless banter and plenty of int...
SEO Software for Professi...
12:51
As you know external links that point to your website will help give the relevant web page more authority with the search engines.
Your website’s overall visibility depends on a large number of onsite and offsite factors used by search engines to r...
Irish Taxi
15:19
Just received this from Frank Byrne, looks like they’re not leaving!
Rally outside the Commission at 4pm!
The Irish Taxi Council
Email: info@irishtaxicouncil.org
Ph: 087 1471818
Press Release for immediate Release
08/03/10
The Irish Taxi C...
The Punishment of Sloth
11:49
David Quinn: We’ll pay a heavy price for allowing same-sex unions – Analysis, Opinion – Independent.ie
This could go down as the week when the Catholic Church began to fight back. On Wednesday, two remarkable things happened. First...
HAILFAIRY
19:27
We’re one step closer to the release of ‘Tron The Legacy’, the sequel to 1982’s ‘Tron’, one of the most venerated Sci-fi movies of all time. Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring newly Oscar-ified Jeff Bridges...
Goldenplec
10:00
We’ve been passed on this information about a new exhibition in the Science Gallery and they have opened a called for submissions. Check out the information below
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Calling all e...
The Cedar Lounge Revoluti...
10:34
28 ” leading economists, social scientists and economic analysts” have signed an open letter co-ordinated by TASC and printed in today’s Irish Times. It attacks the government response to the economic crisis, warning that it is a r...
corkpolitics.ie
17:02
Deirdre Clune
BRIAN Cowen should stop churning out reports on innovation and the smart economy and start producing real jobs, Fine Gael Innovation Spokesperson Deirdre Clune TD said today.
Speaking before the launch of the Government Innovation Task...
Splintered Sunrise
20:49
Over in the imperial metropolis, there was what sounds like quite an interesting meeting yesterday on the theme of “Feminism Today”. This report by Jane Kelly is taken from Socialist Resistance.
The meeting on ‘Feminism Today’ with Nina...
poetbloggs.net
06:02
Plenty of interesting bits from the papers – children’s lit, reviews, publishing news and beyond:
The Observer Food blog looks at what is being eaten in children’s lit -
What food do you remember from children’s books? Were y...
State Magazine
14:25
The death has been reported of Mark Linkous from Sparklehorse, who apparently committed suicide yesterday, Saturday 6 March. Since 1995 Linkous has recorded as Sparklehorse as well as some producing stints with Daniel Johnston and o...
Inside View from Ireland
10:53
THE SUNNIEST DAY in months greeted Ireland today along with a pounding headache due to the Irish recession. I reduced the Sunday Business Post (SBP) and the Sunday Times (ST) to 12 minutes, finding interesting stories about the recession [1-6], stan...
Irish Election
13:13
For the benefit of those of you not on Planet Government or subscribed to the Fianna Fail email update, a message from Brian Lenihan.
Dear supporter,
Over the last twenty months, we have taken decisive and bold action to bring this country back f...
Positive Behaviour Irelan...
12:30
Just a quick post to let everyone know that we are developing a research subsite for Positive Behaviour Ireland. This is going to contain qualitative and quantitative research that we find, are sent and undertake ourselves. We’ll include studi...
Stretch MacGibbon's Magic...
01:11
Feel compelled to put this NewOrdery song on, dunno why.
One of these coreys is dead
So, yeah, Stretch Mac an Gibbbaaaainn has been shorter-listed for the Masturbators Anonymous Annual Jamboree.
Presumably there will be fifteen or so further short l...
The Daily Spud
16:13
I think that my name is on a list somewhere. Some Italian food mafia list.
And make no mistake, they are out to feed me.
First, Milano’s invite me to come and taste their new Francesco Mazzei range. All of it. Two starters, a pasta dish and...
Politics
18:57
Take a look at this press statement just issued by the Government Information Service. Martin Cullen has resigned, not just as Arts Minister, but as a TD. This presumably means a Waterford by-election. Interesting times indeed!
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Sabrina Dent: Pixel Pushi...
12:23
WordCamp Ireland 2010 wrapped up this afternoon, and at exactly 4PM as the last punter walked out of the amazing Set Theatre, I melted into an incredibly pleasant state of complete and total relaxation. Doing this again may be worth it just for tha...
State Magazine
12:21
St Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us and to celebrate 7Up Free are staging a special gig in an undisclosed city centre location on March 20th, featuring Ash and Republic Of Loose and part of their ‘Bring Them Back For The Craic’...
Big Mental Disease
23:10
Look at this ad. Pretty tame. In fact, I don’t think there would be any harm in letting a child see that, as they wouldn’t understand the sexual meaning.
INDEPENDENT
Complaints about a television ad for a sex lubricant that appeared be...
Cllr Joe Ryan's Blog
23:43
Cynics say that you know when a rail line is set for closure because the station gets a new lick of paint. Naturally my concerns grew when I went to Rosslare Strand to see the Waterford platform was painted and resurfaced that there was something a...
State Magazine
16:42
Bob Dylan makes a return visit to these shores on July 4th with a show at Thormond Park in Limerick. Tickets are €81.25, €70.70 & €60.00 Euro Seated & €65.70 GA on sale Monday March 15th @ 9am through Ticketmaster and othe...
Caricatures Ireland
11:22
Photo owned by pthread1981 (cc)
Brilliant news for Galway:
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is expected to confirm this week that the next Volvo around the world yacht race will finish in Galway in 2012. Mr Cowen is expected to make the announcement in Dublin...
John McGuirk
13:56
Take yourself back, in your mind, to 2006.
Imagine that a nobody Republican Congressman in the United States has resigned, suddenly, with no warning.
Imagine that that Congressman went on television to announce that he had been bullied into supporti...
Blogtalk (episode 6) from Northern Visions/NvTv on Vimeo.Mick Fealty, Gary McKeown and Máirtín Ó Muilleoir discuss this week's...
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Conall McDevitt, Gerard McKeown and I discuss remembrance, the Kelly Report and Nelson McCausland's blog. Anyone who wishes to get involved, please email carl@northernvisions.org.Blogtalk (episode 4) from Northern Visions/NvTv on...
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Amidst the regular previews of upcoming festivals and events, book and film reviews, rants about tea bags, and a little gabbling about science fiction on TV, this blog sometimes ventures off into new areas.And so it was last Thursday night when I joined two other bloggers in the NvTv studio in the Cathedral Quarter to record a pilot TV show for the Belfast Community Station. (Long time AiB readers will get extra points for remembering the last time NvTv was mentioned!)The idea of Bloggers NI was to get get some local bloggers to come out from behind their screens and keyboards to meet face-to-face and chew over some recent stories that have surfaced on local blogs.Blogtalk NI from Northern Visions on Vimeo.The "ABCD" pilot show featured Alan from Alan in Belfast, Brian from Burke's...
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Blogtalk NI was launched on an unsuspecting Internet the other day. Brian Crowe, Alan Meban and myself were first on the hotseats.
More to follow!
Blogtalk NI from Northern Visions on Vimeo....
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