by nabidana | Apr 30, 2011 | politics, technology, The Culture, this blog
The site is due for its regular screwup, just in time to keep the Alexa figures down, reduce my advertising prospects and make SEO a bit more difficult. The site will be switched to have three categories: Politics, Technology and Culture. The politics section will be...
by nabidana | Apr 29, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011
Here it is. After all the counting, here’s the most up-to-date and accurate spreadsheet of the Seanad Election count made public. I include it here in HTML format, and a downloadable .xlsx file. Thanks to the Tony Williams team and the Sean Barrett team for...
by nabidana | Apr 22, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
Recently, Trinity College Dublin Seanad Office took the interesting step of eliminating a candidate from the election for Seanad on the basis that the candidate discovered she was not a citizen of Ireland. That’s not in itself problematic. Ballot papers had...
by nabidana | Apr 3, 2011 | Ireland, Northern Ireland, politics
Somewhere on the island of Ireland this Mothers’ Day, perhaps in a pub, perhaps across a Sunday lunch table, some people sat, self satisfied in their latest endeavour for Irish freedom. They revelled in the unfolding story on the television news and convinced...
by nabidana | Mar 31, 2011 | Ireland
Tests designed to determine the future finance needs of the Irish banking sector have been completed and the figures published by the Financial Regulator, Matthew Elderflower, in a document reflective of the Lenten season. The report, entitled ‘The Book of...
by nabidana | Mar 27, 2011 | Hoons, Labour Leadership, politics, stupidity, Uncategorized, unions
Anarchists have condemned the actions of tens of thousands of peaceful protesters in yesterday’s anti-cuts demonstrations in cities across the UK. Speaking exclusively to nábídána.com, one leading protestor, describing himself only as ‘frog’ said the...
