Art, media, opinion and ideas
Some years ago, American writer Joan Didion wrote a memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking. It detailed a year of her life in which her husband died suddenly, and her daughter developed an ultimately fatal illness.
I was an audience member for RTE’s Questions & Answers on two occasions. I can remember almost nothing about either program. The first time, I think Mary O’Rourke was a panelist.
Just thought I'd let people know. I spotted a double charge on my account, for a pretty significant sum of money (is there any other kind?). When I rang up to query it, I was told Bank of Ireland have changed their computer systems recently (Two weeks or so).
One of the things that distinguish “internet natives” from mere n00bz is that the natives have developed certain skills in the business of arguing on the internet.
I write further to the well publicised intention of the Minister for Justice, Mr Dermot Ahern to introduce a criminal offence, punishable by a fine of up to €100,000 of blasphemy. It is the Minister’s declared intention to thereby give statutory provision for the Constitutional offence of blasphemy. However this approach is wrong both in principle and at a practical level.
I'll be here all day Saturday. You can see the rolling Liveblog below, but if you'd like me to ask anything specific or anything else about the whole show in Mullingar just leave a comment.
Sir or Madam,I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about your craven apology to the Taoiseach for a report which was entirely accurate and newsworthy. While there are countries that have laws governing disrespect to the state and its offices, these are not countries in which any Irish person would like to live, and their laws are not mirrored here.
Some time ago I posted about a survey by an outfit called Peninsula Ireland. The alleged findings of the survey were so absurd that they could be seen to be untrue after a split second's reflection. Two broadhseet newspapers either failed to invest this split second, or else, having done so, were happy to print commercially-motivated untruths as fact.
Where is the Society of Chartered Surveyors 2009 report setting the rebuild costs on which insurance companies base their premiums? Apparently they don't even have an estimated date for delivery. Instead, we're all paying our insurance companies based on values in the May 2008 report.
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