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  • CNN Executive Eason Jordan Resigns Post Over Remarks

    Another scalp for the blogosphere, I am not sure the witch hunt was entirely necessary, but the pressure put on by the blogosphere was enormous. Instapundit has a roundup on the story.

  • Ireland v Scotland

    Ireland made a poor start, allowing an easy Scottish try. But they have fought back valiantly, leading to an 18 – 8 scoreline at halftime. Update: Thanks to some great mauls by the Irish, the gap widened with some great tries. The score ended Ireland 40, Scotland 13.

  • Lots of blogs but few talking about Irish matters

    …or so claims Robin O’Brien-Lynch in the Irish Times today. To be honest he has a point. It is something I said to Richard back at the blog party, by covering mainly Irish politics he is the first blogger in Ireland to do so. Slugger does cover Irish politics, but not Southern stuff do as…

  • 500,000 visits

    My sitemeter passed the half a million mark today, in almost exactly two years. Wohoo! Though it should be noted most of those people dropped in from Google or MSN, and then left. Oh and a sizeable portion came looking for controversial videos, or stuff relating to Eminem. But then I do make all of…

  • The Myers/Kennedy apology

    In his by now notorious article on mothers of bastards (MoBs) Kevin Myers wrote: “…upon a career of mothering bastards because it seems a good way of getting money and accommodation from the State? Ah, you didn’t like the term bastard? No, I didn’t think you would.”. Here’s what he wrote in his apology. “I…

  • PDs = Fianna Fail

    The Progressive Democrats, once the bright shining light in the murky and corrupt world of Irish politics. The only party that had principles and actually stood by them. The party that stood up to Haughey’s rotten Fianna Fail. The party with the passionate rallying call, “We are either radical or redundant”. Well, they certainly aren’t…

  • Iran 'will stick to nuclear plan'

    Things are getting very serious with Iran, sooner than I expected. It looks like the Iranians may be throwing down the gauntlet to Bush and Sharon. I do like the double speak from Khatami: “We give our guarantee that we will not produce nuclear weapons because we’re against them and do not believe they are…

  • More new books

    Recently had delivered from Amazon, Dan Gillmor, We the Media Hugh Hewitt, Blog Two blogging bibles! Update: Hello Hewitt readers! 🙂 I will be writing up a review of his book shortly. Feel free to look around this Irish blog.

  • Down

    Something perhaps to do with spam, or the under the bonnet stuff of SQL and WordPress is causing the server to fail. I will be looking into it and perhaps upgrading to 1.5. More soon.

  • Myers losing it?

    As Anthony posted below, Kevin Myers has got himself in a bit of trouble. The issue was discussed on Vincent Browne’s show last night. You can listen to it here with Real Player. Vincent became quite irate. Geraldine Kennedy and Myers were invited onto the show, both of whom declined. Michael Higgins describes it as…

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