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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hollywood glitterati supporting Clinton and Obama but don't expect them to surrender any privileges!

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The Hollywood glitterati are lining up to support the two current stars of the Democratic Party, Senatots Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama w...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

30 years of nutritional science has made Americans and others: sicker, fatter and less well nourished - A plea for a return to plain old food

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In a mega-article in the New York Times magazine published on Sunday, Jan 28, 2007, Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma , wrote...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Dublin's Burlington Hotel is to be razed: The Merrion Centre, Merrion Inn and adjacent service station next?

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The Merrion Inn - see Dublin Pubs The closure of the Irish sugar industry has given food group Greencore the opportunity to become a propert...

World Economic Forum: Searingly blunt advice from Davos

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Sever Plocker is chief economics editor and deputy editor-in chief of Yedioth Abaronot, Israel's largest Hebrew daily newspaper and he ...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Parish-pump politics without attending to the pump

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Parish-pump politics have their place as long as the pump is actually attended to when required. Some years ago, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown coun...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

The penny drops for the National Roads Authority - Rest areas on motorways are needed after all

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N11 motorway near Arklow, County Wicklow Photo credit: Ireland.ru Transport Minister Martin Cullen on Tuesday announced details of the G...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The China Effect on European Import Prices is Waning

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In October 2006, the world's biggest container ship, the Emma Maersk, owned by A.P. Moeller Maersk of Denamrk, docked for the first time...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Tackling financial illiteracy

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Ed Balls, former Financial Times journalist, is tipped to be appointed Chancellor when Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister - ...
Saturday, January 13, 2007

David Quinn and the Institute of the Pieties

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David Quinn speaking at an ecumenical lecture on the topic "the Churches and the Media" According to Wikipedia, David Quinn is one...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Eco-extremism and climate change

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Climate change is getting a lot of attention and rightly so. However, there has to be a balance in how much sacrifice people living today sh...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Xenophobia off Menu for more than 200,000 people who are Homeless or living in temporary shelter in Paris

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The Tuileries Gardens in central Paris © Musée du Louvre / A. Dequier The Financial Times reports today that volunteers who ladled it out to...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Asia-Europe budget airline

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When I was in Kuala Lumpur last week, the plans of Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes to launch a long-haul service to Europe were getting...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Irish Travellers should avoid Heathrow Airport like the Plague if getting Connecting Flights to non-UK destinations

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London Heathrow Airport is the world’s busiest international airport. It is the UK’s largest airport and handles 64 million passengers every...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Irish Public Transport and the Soviet-style Bureaucracy that runs Córas Iompair Éireann

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Last November a survey bought/commissioned by the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) had a startling revelation for people who need surveys ...
Friday, December 29, 2006

World Wide Wait in Malaysia

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Located on the old site of the Royal Turf Club in the heart of the capital city, the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) is truly a spectacular ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Bertie Ahern's " patriot to his fingertips" and the legacy of a kleptocracy

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In June 2006, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern gave a ringing peroration at the graveside of Charles Haughey and he indeed owed his deceased predecess...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Cúpla focail and more hypocrisy on the Irish language

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Beautiful Gougane Barra in the Cork Gaeltacht, near the source of the River Lee (Photo:  www.gouganebarra.com  ) The Government today set ou...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Whited sepulchres of hypocritical moralism

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De Wallen , also known as Walletjes or Rosse Buurt , is the largest and best-known red-light district in Amsterdam , a major tourist attrac...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Fair Deal, Irish Nursing Homes and Harry Truman

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There is surely an irony in the Government’s use of the term Fair Deal - President Harry Truman’s name for his political programme – for it...