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Irish Blog Awards
Just a short post on the Irish Blog Awards 2010 – my first time to attend and Liv came along too (which was great, she got an insight into my online life). As ever, it’s great to catch up with the people you know and finally say hello in person to a number of people [...]
FreeRadicalised Electra Townie – 2009
This was my big cycling project of the year and truly was fun. I’m debating putting an internal gear hub on it in 2010 but currently being advised against it. Well worth reading the set of posts I did recently on it: Part 1: http://www.jamesgallagher.ie/new-bicycle-fun-part-1/ Part 2: http://www.jamesgallagher.ie/new-bicycle-fun-part-2/ Part 3: http://www.jamesgallagher.ie/new-bicycle-fun-part-3/
Why I love my visits home
I was home in Roscommon over the weekend and was reminded about just how great it is to visit my parents. I grew up in Roscommon but feel no affinity to the county. Except for this place that my parents have made a fantastic home and place of safe contentment. My parents are big fans [...]
Ireland oriented tech coverage?
This is probably ignorance on my part more than anything. I’m finding my RSS stream a little overloaded from tech news which is interesting but not necessarily impacting me in the context of being Ireland based and focussed. For this post ‘tech news’ should be treated as shorthand for Irish tech news. At the moment [...]
Tax dodging midget
Had a good laugh this morning (via Redmum): http://redmum.blogspot.com/2009/03/tax-dodging-365.html
Government is not the place for keen amateurs
Tis surely hard to find anything nice to say about our government at the moment. Just as disheartening is the state of the opposition which offers no hope through change. As much as the economic system is broken, we surely cannot ignore the state of the Irish political system. The number of financial irregularities emerging [...]
Jobs via an agency I like …
This time last year I was busy complaining about the state of recruitment agencies here in Ireland. Of about 8 or 9 different agencies only one came through for me with professionalism and they also managed to place me with my current company. It turned out to be a good match so obviously I’m pleased [...]
Tearing the arse out of it
We’re all watching the carry on over the FÁS expenses and obviously everyone is outraged. No doubt lots of people will be going on about the government and civil servants ripping us off. What will probably be missed is that corruption like this is inevitable when we as a culture celebrate ‘pulling a stroke’. A [...]
Tuesday Push: LouderVoice
I haven’t been participating in the Tuesday Push, not because I have anything against it but because I’m still feeling my way around to some extent and getting comfortable (yes, it’s taking a long time but that’s me). However there are two reasons to join in for LouderVoice which is this Tuesdays: – It’s a [...]
Some people are on the pitch …
Fantastic win for Connacht having suffered the ignominy of defeat so often. Fantastic win for the fans who turn out for these games. An inspiring game that makes you stand and applaud what these players do for those of us who invest pride and emotion into the team that represents who we are and where we’re from. [...]
The €400bn Irish Banks ‘Bailout’
The Irish government move to guarantee deposits in Irish banks has generated a lot of commentary. In particular politicians have thrown their hands up in the air and waffled about the exposure of the Irish taxpayer to a vast financial risk. I’m going to start by saying that I’m not an expert on banking. I [...]
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