On the day Lady Thatcher died, people in Dublin spoke to me with worry on their faces, as if I might spontaneously combust or ascend back to my starship. “Here is a man”, they probably thought, “who is upset about the death of someone I thought was a bit of a bitch.” They were right. [...]

Living as I currently do in Dublin, I see the Lisbon Treaty referendum happening all around me. I am a British citizen, so I have no vote. Quite right, citizens of other nations shouldn’t have a say on the constitution of Ireland. But, listening to the Marian Finucane show today, I know now that I [...]

As a straight man, I love Dublin Pride as a spectacle above all. A festival of bright colour, an astoundingly optimistic and positive oasis in a year where all news seems to be bad. Today was great fun, and took place in sweltering, vicious sun. These photos, all taken with the camera on the iPhone [...]

So, the wait is over, and I have my hands on the iPhone 3GS. Ireland apparently only has black editions of the phone, but I managed to get a 32GB model. The staff at the Dublin Henry Street store were exceptionally professional and friendly, and very knowledgeable about the phone, which is something of a [...]

So here goes, prepare to hear the sound of the world’s smallest violin playing. I am on the way to Dublin City Centre to queue for an iPhone 3GS. O2 official policy is ‘no preorders’ but it seems very many stores have taken allocation lists. The rule should be first come first served, according to [...]

Students and scientists at two rival Irish universities have this week unveiled competing technologies in the field of science and design. At Trinity College, Dublin, scientists have developed ‘major improvements’ to The TEAM Project (TEAM stands for Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope)  led by Berkeley Lab in a collaboration with DOE’s Argonne and Oak Ridge National [...]

Am sitting upstairs in Dublin’s Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, on the steps of the 98FM broadcast booth, with my Eee PC 901 on one knee, uploading photos to the cloud I took just minutes ago on my Nikon D60 Digital SLR, then checking the CSS I’m working on over a not-too flaky free wifi connection, [...]

Irish Rail really should think carefully before taking epoch-making, Earth shaking decisions. Take for example the one they made this morning and announced at 8.53 to the normally mild-mannered commuters at Coolmine Station. ‘We regret that, due to (something garbled) the 8.53 train to Dublin Connolly has been cancelled.’ Just like that. Cancelled. Instantly (or [...]

Obama’s disciples litter the Button Factory in Dublin’s fashionable temple bar district. It is fair to say I am outnumbered, and therefore not likely to deliberately start a fight.

Late October is dreadful in many ways; children excited about possible encounters with representatives of the undead community, teachers giddy with the excitement of being allowed out to protest in the centre of Dublin, stores trying to work out if it’s time to put on their Christmas lights or light one more plastic pumpkin… Of [...]