Yearly Archives: 2013

Screen Shot 2013-02-26 at 11.21.00Don’t let the hoodie and the smile fool you.

“Seminars in UCD with third-year students on the meaning of a republic in the early 1920s. A latecomer, who said she couldn’t get parking, temporarily interrupts spirited contributions. She lives in Milltown, a 10-minute walk away. The mind boggles.”

Historian Diarmaid Ferriter, there.

Fair point though, in fairness.

Or puritan, de Valera-ian petulance.

YOU decide.

Diarmaid Ferriter (My Education Week, Irish Times)

UPDATE:

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Walking route. Estimated time: 28 minutes.
Screen Shot 2013-02-26 at 11.56.07Driving route: Estimated time: 10 minutes.

(Google Maps)

Big Hitters Attend Dublin Jobs Fair, looking for 800 workers (Irish Examiner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGq4S2HgZ5k&feature=youtu.be

A cautionary tale.

Seamie the Irish backpacking sheep.

Animation by Richard Cullen. Vocals by Aoife Hoey.

The Tan always fades.

Wake up, SHEEPLE!

Thanks Richard

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Junior minister for innovation Sean Sherlock (right) with Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton (centre) and and Mark Ferguson, Of Science Foundation Ireland, at the Science Gallery, Dublin, yesterday.

From the Irish Times:

The Government has embarked on a radical reform of how it invests in scientific research. It is phasing out a system that has served the country well over the past 12 years in favour of one thought more likely to deliver jobs and an economic return on the State investment.

 

First comment:

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Ah.

Academics Sceptical As Funding For Research Aims To Prioritise Job Creation (Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Gnarly.

Dublin Cycling Campaign writes:

Here is traffic through Main Street, Donnybrook (N11) outbound [last night] at the notorious ‘hip’ on the left bend at Kiely’s Pub.

Most drivers take the ‘hip’ at a tangent to the curve thus cutting the corner so woebetide any cyclist on the inside. Drivers should be following the circumference so as not to cut the corner.

Few drivers understand how not doing it this way might endanger a cyclist on the inside.

 

Dublin Cycling Campaign (Facebook)