Tag Archives: Ireland

You may recall yesterday’s post about certain press coverage in New Zealand of trouble at the Ireland/All Blacks game.

Eoin Darby writes:

The story has now gone national in NZ.  They still have not addressed the real issue of stereotyping and shoddy journalism which we highlighted on Monday. The Irish Champion (above and link below) has the real story.

irish People Living In New Zealand (Facebook)

Quotation Marks Puts NZ journalism On Trial (PJ Ahern, Irish Champion)

STOP!

Folding that tricolour.

Conor Walsh writes:

I play lacrosse for Ireland and we will be competing at the European Lacrosse Championships in just over week’s time in Amsterdam.

This will be the first time that the Euros have a tiered group stage and Ireland are in the top division alongside England, The Netherlands, Germany, Finland and Sweden.

We are in the Top 10 in the world rankings after a 9th place finish in the World Championships in 2010. We finished 7th in the last Euros in 2008 and we are hoping to improve on that with a medal-winning finish in the Netherlands..

Training camp starts tomorrow, June 16, with our opening game against current holders England on June 20.

We will be competing alongside the Women’s team who are grouped against England, Austria, The Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

It would be really great to get some publicity to help garner some support for both teams ahead of what will hopefully be a successful campaign at a major sports event.

IrelandLacrosse.ie

Ireland Lacrosse (Facebook)

(Pics Joe Caulfield)

Niamh Rabbit, of TCD’s  Research The City, writes:

So this is it, the happiness map of Ireland. The red counties have the highest wellbeing, the blue counties have the lowest wellbeing, and the orange – yellow – green are somewhere in between. It’s based on answers to the transport survey where respondents gave details on where they lived and of their wellbeing.

The whole map comes with the major caveat that for a lot of counties I have very few data points. The counties with the fewest data points are also the the counties coming up at the extremes, places like Offaly and South Tipperary only have two or three respondents.

So yes, as always I’d like more data. . .So please take part in our Happiness Survey here. Thank you