Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Tribunal fatigure, a new website and more questions
The web weaved by Ahern is unweaving. Some things from evidence did not make it into the newspapers, yet again. This is usually for lack of space, but fortunately there is no limit on space here on the internet, so we can pour of the details here. I can understand why only certain sections of…
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Crumbling story
Ahern’s story of being stuck for cash in 1994 continues to crumble. The Tribunal does, I believe, think the £16,500 and the £8,000 payments to be non-existent. The £25,000 stg equivalent is just too much of a coincidence. The Irish Times seems to have got their sums wrong too, or at least they are forgetting…
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Posting
Posting will be light, I’m weighed down with assignments for university. All should be better at the end of the week.
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Ahern's Bills
It has probably been forgotten that during his tenure as Minister for Labour, Bertie Ahern introduced the following Bill: PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT, 1991 The Act, it appears, was badly needed as a replacement to the Truck Acts. But what the Minister for Labour said is very interesting. Especially for a man who says he…
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De wireless
I’ve been asked to go on the Orla Barry show on Newstalk106 to talk about Irish accents in Season Two of Heroes. I will have to recall the sick feeling in my stomach when I first saw the episode!
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Ahern Facebook group
I established a group on Facebook calling for Bertie Ahern to resign. Much to my surprise, membership has increased quickly, rising to nearly 200 in two days. 1,000 members now looks entirely possible. Go join, if you agree.
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Bertie Ahern wiki
I’ve been working on a wiki relating to Bertie Ahern for the past couple of weeks. I wanted to get a reasonable amount of material up before making it public. It still needs a huge amount of work. Readers are welcome to contribute, parsing the transcripts is probably the most important, if daunting, work. References…
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Padraig Flynn
Does anyone have a copy of Pee Flynn and his infamous Late Late interview? I’d love to see it up on YouTube…
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1.3 million
This humble blog that I started back in the summer of 2002 passed the 1.3 million visitor mark recently. I am very pleased reaching this round figure, hehe. I’d like to thank everyone for visiting over the years, and I hope to improve on my blogging and my level of output over the coming months.…
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Hulu Beta
I received my invite to Hulu over the weekend. Unfortunately for me, the service is still US only, meaning I can’t watch any of the videos. In the past I have used US proxies to watch ABC content, but I am having trouble finding a good proxy this time round. Can anyone suggest a service?…
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