digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/02/27/nabidana-podcast-coming-soon/’;
digg_title = ‘Nabidana podcast coming soon’;
digg_bodytext = ‘I’m watching the rugby today, and as Ireland’s most obnoxiously proud England supporter, despite having been born in Londonderry, brought up in Co. Down and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution,(whose former head coach is now the Ulster Rugby coach), I am not allowed out [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2010/01/11/when-is-a-water-cut-not-a-water-cut-when-its-water-throttling/’;
digg_title = ‘When is a water cut not a water cut? When it’s ‘Water Throttling’.’;
digg_bodytext = ‘
My local authority, Fingal County Council, has take the exciting step of ‘throttling’ the water supply.  The people of Castleknock and Clonsilla (nice areas, North West Dublin) will not be happy.
Check this out for an exciting [...]

With the PBR in the UK and the Budget in Ireland, most of the readers of this blog consider themselves a little f**ked at the moment.

But consider how f**ked these people feel.

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/10/14/press-release-from-hse-on-drumm-bonus/’;
digg_title = ‘Press Release from HSE on Drumm Bonus’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Glorious leader receives trifling bonus payment from joyous populace
Professor Brendan Drumm, Glorious and Feted leader of the Health Service Executive, has expressed his satisfaction at the small token of gratitude bestowed upon him by the people of Ireland.
Professor Drumm received some €70,000, enough [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/22/yes-to-entirely-empty-arguments/’;
digg_title = ‘Yes to entirely empty arguments’;
digg_bodytext = ‘So occasionally, we try to balance things out.  This is tough.  At least with Cóir, we have a crazy extremist religious group to make fun of.  The ‘Ireland for Europe’ campaign is as vacuous and meaning-free as any campaign I have ever seen.  This leaves [...]

Would you find it acceptable for teachers to ask children to write essays about Europe, in the middle of a referendum campaign, and reject the work if it was negative about the EU?

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/07/lisbon-treaty-poster-safari-part-two/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon Treaty Poster Safari: Part Two’;
digg_bodytext = ‘So in my previous post, I explained that some organisations were putting up really godawful posters for the Lisbon Treaty.  And I think most people agree that very many of them are pretty substantially awe-inspiring.
I was awfully inspired on a few of them to [...]

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/03/lisbon-referendum-diary-1-a-history-of-mutual-smugness/’;
digg_title = ‘Lisbon Referendum Diary 1. A history of mutual smugness.’;
digg_bodytext = ‘The most amusing thing about the nascent referendum campaign in Ireland is the approach of the two sides. It’s not as oppositional at least in spirit as you might think.
The Pro Lisbon lobby are smug. They got a second referendum, [...]

Brian Cowen, Ireland’s Prime Minister, has ‘not given up hope’ on finding a buyer for the beleaguered nation, as evidenced in photos on the website of the Roinn an Taoisigh.

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/06/26/initial-review-o-iphone-3gs-in-ireland/’;
digg_title = ‘Initial review o iPhone 3GS in Ireland.’;
digg_bodytext = ‘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 [...]