Libertas – An unfortunate shower of cretins

Just posted this over on the Libertas.eu website blog, guessing it won’t see the light of day. To put this in context, I’m responding to the ‘historic opportunity to vote for the ‘exciting and positive vision’ put forward by Libertas:...

An Open Letter to Simon Palmer

4 May 2009 Dear Simon, Having read your interesting and presumably satirical views on the state of Irish blogging, I decided to check out your website to see how ‘down with the kids’ you are, and to identify whether your site has what it takes to convince...
This blog will not be regulated by Simon Palmer

This blog will not be regulated by Simon Palmer

A chap working within the PR field has weighed into the argument around regulation of blogs. The article in the Sunday Business Post was as tiresome to read as the website of the chap in question, to whom I shall henceforth refer as ‘Mr Republic’ The basic...

Turned off Twitter updates

Turned off the daily twitter digest.  I am painfully aware of how boring I am, I have no desire to inflict that across several aggregation technologies and blog readers.  In addition, thought I’d share this one: As part of the examinations for this year’s...

Wales for the win today

I have often been wrong in Rugby predictions, so I make this as a general observation that, if Ireland concentrates today on an expansive, quick ball game, the Slam is likely; Wales have only very rarely shown the sort of class Ireland have had consistently. If...