Entries from March 2007

March 28, 2007

And from today’s papers, I learned…

1. A schoolteacher who was caught up in yesterday’s crashes on the M7/M9 is six weeks’ pregnant. She found out at the hospital because they checked before giving her an x-ray. The Indo not only reported this but gave her name and printed a picture of her. So much for keeping her special news under [...]

March 28, 2007

Fin du navel-gazing

“I see you’ve given up on the blog,” said my old boss. He had read the post from earlier in the week and assumed as much. But I’m not giving up. I was just thinking it over out loud, as it were, hoping that writing down my concerns about it might make give me more [...]

March 27, 2007

Things I learned from today’s papers

1. I’m glad I’m not an actor. Jobbing actors often have to take whatever work is going but I wonder how many will be tempted by a gig at the new graduate medical school in the University of Limerick? According to the Health Supplement of the Irish Times (sub. required), students there will be taught [...]

March 26, 2007

To blog or not to blog

I haven’t written anything specifically for here in the last few weeks and it’s not just because I haven’t had time (although I haven’t had much) and not just because it’s hard to prioritise writing for which I don’t get paid (although it is).
It’s just that I would like my blogging to have some sort [...]

March 26, 2007

Sunday Times: Let’s talk about sex in schools

Horribly late posting this. Still, it has to do for two weeks as I had to yield my slot to Vladimir Putin yesterday. A sentence I never thought I’d write.
March 18th, 2007
My sex education at school was less than thorough. In first year, my classmates and I giggled as we got close to “the [...]

March 11, 2007

Sunday Times: Model joke is wearing thin

March 11th, 2007
I never would have made it as an Irish model. Even if I lost a few stone, grew a few inches and bathed in fake tan, I just don’t think I’d have the mettle for modelling. I might be able to hack long haul travelling, temperamental designers and the constant pressure to be [...]

March 11, 2007

Irish Examiner: Nobody should feel so desperate as to leave a baby

March 10th, 2007
Attitudes have changed towards giving birth outside wedlock, writes Kathy Foley
The grainy footage of a young Irish woman abandoning her baby in the toilets of an Australian shopping centre this week was distressing to see.

March 11, 2007

Sunday Times: Kevin Thornton

Was away last weekend and forgot to bring home a copy of the ST. Then kept forgetting to procure a copy during the week. So this is as filed, not quite as published.
March 4th, 2007
It was an innocent request. We were in the local pasta’n’pizza joint. You know the kind of place – checked plastic [...]