Lead item on the main evening news a couple of minutes ago on RTE1: how “the media scrum” thought the FAI meeting regarding the future of Steve Staunton would take place in the Crowne Plaza hotel in Santry.
“This is the meeting-room where the meeting was to take place,” said the voiceover. Cue wobbly shot of [...]
No matter how much I focus on this thing, I can’t see the dancer turning anti-clockwise. I’d explain, but it’s late. Just click if you’re curious. (Via that’s how it happened)
I was working in the Examiner today and, as luck would have it, they were holding a book sale for charidee. It’s a good way for newspapers to clear out the mountains of review copies that tend to multiply incredibly rapidly in the office. It’s a win-win thing…we get to buy lovely new books cheaply [...]
You know how it is when you’re arsing around online, but can’t really find anything interesting to read? I hate that. So if you’re in that sort of mood, check out one of these (all of which I’ve just added to the Feeds I Read thing there on the right —>). I’ve been reading ‘em [...]
Morning Ireland today ran an edited version of the heartrending interview Joe Duffy did in January with ‘Rosie’ - the cancer sufferer who blamed the fact that her cancer had become incurable on her long wait for treatment in the public health system. ‘Rosie’ (Susie Long) died on Friday.
It was desperately sad to hear it [...]
Having put up with back pain on and off for five years and having had various run-ins with physiotherapists, I finally feel like I’m getting it sorted out with the help of a super-duper physio of my acquaintance.
She had strapped me up last week and it really helped, so this morning she went mad with [...]
As neither of these letters had any contact details on them, the Sunday Times won’t be publishing them. Oddly enough, neither were in green ink.
“I read your article in the Sunday Times unfortunately most women who have had an abortion cant “get over it” they are permanently traumatized. I hope you will have a change [...]
Was on The Last Word with Matt Cooper earlier today, discussing Jane Brocket’s new book The Gentle Art of Domesticity with her and Matt. To listen, click here, select 4:30 - 5pm Thursday 11/10/2007 and fast forward to about ten minutes in.
It seems that not every household receives its free monthly copy of Alive! - a free Catholic monthly newspaper. So, just in case you didn’t get yours, here are some selected highlights.
Page 1 pic story: ‘Just thinking about God makes people generous’
Page 3 news story: ‘Catholic Scripture scholars took wrong turn’
Page 6 Letters to the [...]
October 7th, 2007
It’s not often I find myself thumping the table in agreement when reading comments made by a bishop, but it happened last week. At a service in St Michan’s Church of Ireland to mark the opening of the new law term, Michael Burrows, the Bishop of Ossory, preached a brave sermon in which [...]
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