Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Question
How long have Fianna Fail hacks been texting into RTE news programmes in an orchestrated bid to make people believe the Irish people are bored of the Ahern story? I don’t know about you, but every time I checked the Irish Times or Irish Independent website over the last number of weeks, stories relating to…
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Proximity Property Limited
Here is the CRO company printout. 2110765_11.pdf First question. What involvement, if any, did the State-owned Industrial Credit Corporation have with Proximity, or 72 Amiens Street? Ah yes, the mortgage was taken out by Ahern et al with ICC. Brian Cole appears to be an engineer, and also at the time a director of Building…
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Ahern
Hmm. I’ve spent the last few hours going over Dail television archives. I am posting statements the Taoiseach made, that were of concern to the Tribunal, to YouTube. On a personal level it is clear to me. Ahern outright lied to Dail Eireann. Without a doubt. I can say that because of information that has…
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Happiness is…
Sadness is… totally inappropriate planning (Ireland’s tallest building)
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Gilvarry letter to Guidera
I have transcribed the first of the letters. It is in PDF format here
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Faking Facebook 2
As I expected, someone has come clean as the faker of Barry Egan’s profile. “Egan” added me as a friend, but I never replied to the request. Putting “natch” after one of the profile items was the clincher for me. It seems it was a very successful experiment in adding people as friends who may…
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Ahern's gamble
We knew this was coming. Ahern has decided to take a case to the High Court and is challenging aspects of its investigation. Ireland.com reports: Today, lawyers acting for Mr Ahern in the High Court in Dublin secured leave to seek a judicial review challenging the handing over of specific documents, including advice from a…
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Blog awards
The shortlists are up. I have been nominated in the best news/current affairs blog category. Cheers to the person who nominated me :). I guess I should do some link whoring or something to all the other nominees. I am a regular reader of many, so do check them out: Best Blog Sponsored by PutPlace…
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Canon 20D testing
So I bought the Rymus 20D, and have taken a few photos to try her out. As always, Puds makes a good subject. Chilling out:
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Demetrius and Dunlop
After a thorough investigation, the Mahon Tribunal has found that Frank Dunlop redacted references to a Fine Gael activist he called “Demetrius”. Who on earth was it?
Got any book recommendations?