Irlande, Nul Points First the mildly funny story.  It emerged this morning that since 2003, more than 18,000 people cases of serious road traffic offences have been brought to court in Ireland and convicted of.  Of those, it would appear that just over 700 of those cases were ever given penalty points, although points were [...]

This website is primarily about UK politics, and rarely forays into the politics of Ireland.  There’s a simple enough reason for this; the blogger doesn’t feel that there’s a significantly developed school of political thought in Ireland with a fundamentally right-of-centre political principle. I hear lots of people complaining that ‘all the parties in Ireland [...]

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 [...]