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Culch.ie
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Not sure who to catch at the Picnic, and who to leave to the ants? Never fear! The intrepid, well-travelled, and extremely attractive Culch.ie music team are here to guide you gently into making the right choice, no matter your creed.
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Cllr Dermot Lacey
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The proposed amendments to the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2011 – 2017 will be on public display from 18th August 2010 to 15 September 2010 at the following locations in the South East Area during normal office opening hours:
Civic Offices,...
The Punishment of Sloth
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Still plenty of ifs and buts in determining final cost to taxpayer – The Irish Times – Wed, Sep 01, 2010
The meter on the bailout has reached €22.88 billion. Some €18.88 billion has come through promissory notes, or State IOUs, which, th...
THE IRISH OBSERVER
18:53
The resignation of Monica Mc Williams as Chief Human Rights Commissioner in Northern Ireland, is no loss to those of us who value the rights of all people. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is funded and directed by the British State, it ...
Thoughts on Communication...
17:46
I am surprised that the launch of Microsofts Kinect, the long expected arrival of internet TVs by year end and the never ending expansion of cloud based services has not generated more debate about the potential impact on PR and social media.
In the...
CheapEats.ie
12:30
I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s New European Series - so far I’ve seen him in Morocco, Spain and, most recently, Greece. This episode was all about simple ingredients simply put together. He went spear fishing, met up with some bee kee...
shanemcdonald.org
13:57
I was at the Guns N’ Roses concert at the O2 in Dublin, and I was appauled at the behaviour of so called fans when Guns N’ Roses eventually took to the stage at around 10:30pm. The support act were late finishing and for 1h 30 minutes th...
Meath Fine Gael
09:52
30th August 2010
PRESS RELEASE
Murphy Calls For Changes to Repeat Leaving Cert System
Fine Gael Councillor, Maria Murphy has called on the Minister for Education & Skills, Mary Coughlan TD to give our Leaving Certificate students a break.
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The Tara Poetry Blog
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A Turn at Tara.On a windswept but sunny day a large crowd turned out for a celebration of poetry and song at Tara today, though given that some of Ireland's best known poets were in attendance it was only to be expected. Or if you're coming next yea...
Montana Gael
08:28
They're burying Mick Lally in Dublin today, and the world's the poorer for it. At age 64, Lally rolled and rumbled when he spoke, his timbre recalling a rough plane of soft pine. He showed a kind character to match the grain. He was an actor's actor...
The Jackanory
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Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuss) sets himself a difficult task with his latest project. In an age where comic book adaptations adorn our screens at every turn, the honeymoon period is quickly coming to an end. Kick-Ass tried t...
Emerging Writer
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Prizes: 1st £1000, 2nd £500, 3rd £250
& 20 prizes of £20 each
Deadline: Friday 15th oct 2010
Judges: Gwyneth Lewis, Maurice Riordan
Both judges will read all poems submitted.
Rules: Poems must be in English, must each be no longer than 45 l...
Pursued by a Bear
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Arcade Fire – the mere mention of these words lately seems to bring out bloggers and commentators in a rash of hastily-slung insults and rabidly constructed defences. First, there was their by-all-accounts limp Oxegen performance; then they h...
WhoseView.ie Blog
18:46
In September we would like to giveaway up to €1,000 in One4all Vouchers in packs of €20 each. That’s 50 vouchers to give away until September 21st.
To get your hands on on a €20 Voucher, simply post 25 reviews, which will give you at least 1,...
The Dublin Community Blog
18:05
For those of you now suffering from post-summer hang over, taking part in sporting events is probably the last thing on your minds. If, on the other hand, some of you out there have an interest in observing the extremities of differ...
Jason O Mahony
06:55
One of the more disturbing things I’ve come across recently is this poll figure from the US saying that 18% of people polled believe that President Obama is a Muslim. What’s particularly worrying, indeed surreal, is that the number of p...
gaelick
12:05
Tonight is the big night for American telly. The Emmys, those Oscars of the small screen are on tonight. Actually, I should specify, The Emmys are so big now that they are split into two groups: The Daytime Emmy Awards that Ellen owns and the The Pr...
Joe Higgins.eu | MEP for ...
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Press release: Councillor Matt Waine (Socialist Party) Minister and politicians celebrate M50 upgrade today while ignoring scandal of wilful destruction of small Irish firm on the project Two former unemployed steel fixers from Tallaght bankrupted b...
The Noises In Our Heads
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Scottish rockers Twin Atlantic played a blistering set in The O2 Dublin in support of headliners Blink 182. They played to a packed and eager Blink 182 audience for about 45 minutes and it's safe to say they won them over by the time they finished w...
Michael Farry
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Michael - Can you send an email address to editor@irishdigest.com which is located in the north west up here, regarding the book you are writing on the Civil war etec in......
blaubushka
10:21
I've been a big fan of Dahlia's for a long time now and I'm very excited about the newest collection; tapping into all things fiercely floral and sweetly sixties mixed up with a vintage hunter feel and quirky wild child attitude. Blau's picks...Baby...
An Irish Town Planner's B...
08:03
THE CONSTRUCTION of the controversial new national children’s hospital on the Mater site in central Dublin is to be fast-tracked through the planning process, it has emerged.The change in approach means the project will not be scrutinised by Dublin ...
Alan in Belfast
16:55
Wondering why there was a flood of hits on the blog coming from Iain Dale's blog, I discovered that - unbeknownst to me - Alan in Belfast had been entered into Total Politics vote for Top Northern Ireland Blog, and made it into the top 20.For what i...
Shopping in Meath
14:46
Mr Blair's book, A Journey, reveals the extent of the rift between two men who dominated British politics from the moment New Labour stormed to power in 1997 to its capitulation at the polls in May.The former PM says he was put under "relentless per...
belfaststories
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1969 - I was five years old when I first fell in love. Her name was Diane and I used to walk home from Nettlefield Primary School with her. When we would get to her house I would give her a puckered-lip kiss and say goodbye. Diane lived at number 32...
No Ordinary Fool
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Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
From the album The Suburbs (Merge Records; 2010)
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Of Montreal – Coquet Coquette
From the impending album False Priest (Polyvinyl)
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Male Bonding – Weird Feeling
From the album Nothing ...
THE IRISH OBSERVER
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Energy Regulator to discuss electricity price hike and disconnection of customers with Committee on Economic Regulatory AffairsAugust 31 2010 Energy regulator Michael Tutty will appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Economic Regulatory Aff...
State Magazine
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With their second album The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner garnering widespread critical acclaim in advance of its nationwide release, it is safe to say that there was a strong air of anticipation surrounding this special album launch.
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As well as the appointments made by the European Council last night (more on that later), another recent appointment has come to my knowledge. Dick Roche, the current Minister for Europe, has been made a Vice-President of the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR) . From what I am hearing, a lot of people are not happy about this.
Pat Cox, the former President of the ELDR is not a happy man from what I hear, and the youth wing LYMEC (who I have blogged previously about here) are also not a happy bunch. LYMEC are actually threatening to vote en masse against anything Fianna Fail put forward at ELDR Congress (which is currently ongoing in Barcelona) meaning that nothing Fianna Fail want will happen.The Dutch Liberals, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)...
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Ógra Fianna Fail have again failed in its bid to join LYMEC (The European Liberal Youth) which acts as the youth wing of the European Liberal and Democratic Reform Party which Fianna Fail joined last month.
Ógra when it previously applied were blocked by the Young Progressive Democrats. A few of those involved are still around and are behind Liberals.ie. Im not sure if they have membership of LYMEC but the YPDs are still listed as full members on the LYMEC website
This time round I am not sure who blocked them, but I am told it was concerns about how ‘Liberal’ Fianna Fail really are that brought their membership into question. Their stance on divorce, abortion, and blasphemous libel are said to have worked against them and led to their application...
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The machinations of Irish politicians in Europe rarely get the coverage they might if they were done more locally. Today’s Irish Times carries a relatively brief report entitled ‘Ahern may switch to Liberals’ (page 13). Unfortunately, it doesn’t go into much details surrounding the context and recent history of FF, the UEN and the Liberals.
As has been discussed previously here (see links below), this is the latest in a series of efforts by Fianna Fáil (FF) leadership to relocate within the European Parliament. Currently, they are associated with the UEN political group, which is dominated by right-wing, reactionary conservative group within the parliament with relatively little influence. In Bertie Ahern’s own words, it is ‘a mishmash...
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European politics generally does not excite much interest in the Irish media, which would explain why this interesting story has been largely ignored. Beyond mention on two threads on the politics.ie (here and here), the story of Ogra Fianna Fail’s attempts to join the European Liberal Youth has been ignored by all and sundry. And possibly you would be right to ignore this issue, were it not for the fact that this was a substanial defeat for Fianna Fail plans for European involvment outside of the realm of the UEN.
Generally dismissed as an insignificant group of crack-pots and “reformed” fascists, the future of the UEN has been the source of much disucssion over the past couple of months, with Fianna Fail quite eager to enter one of the larger European political...
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