The live coverage starts at 11 on RTE Live. There’s another live blog over at Tuppenceworth that we’ll be dipping into from time to time during the day. Taoiseach’s speech scheduled at 8.30. Blog is live for tweets from now. I’ll be dipping in and out from 11 onwards. If you are there and twittering, let us know and we can add your voice to the conversation!!
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »
No no, you have to watch this… Three Tenors singing the rare oul times: http://www.fiannafail.ie/feature/entry/live-stream-now-available/
Really, it is rare all right!!
Now they are doing that old banker the Fields of the Fields of Athenry… Everybody!!
Yay, The town I loved so well, for Derry FF no doubt!! You know who you are!!!
seven minutes… that’s got to be a record… oh, Ireland’s Call I wonder why?