Archive for February, 2006
Irish Blog Awards records 1000 votes
Thursday, February 16th, 2006Congratulations all around to those involved in and nominated for The 1st Irish Blog Awards; Damien has just announced that votes recorded so far have topped the 1,000 mark and there’s still a whole day of voting left for those absent minded blog readers out there.
Couple this with the recent announcement of a slick phone […]
McDowell criticises “agenda setters”
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006In a recent speech at the Broadcasting, Society and Law series in UCD, Minister for Justice Michael McDowell criticised those in the “state media and state licensed media” for what he labelled agenda setting a campaign journalism.
The speech (available for download here in PDF format) covered many aspects of Irish media and made some valid […]
Brown moves to the fore
Monday, February 13th, 2006It’s something that has not gone un-noticed in the press in Ireland or England, but it is more obvious than ever now that Gordon Brown is moving into Prime Ministerial mode more and more each day.
Over the past few days Brown has been straying from his Economic brief onto wider issues such as Education, Security […]
Site News
Sunday, February 5th, 2006Just to point out a few minor changes to the website that I’ve just made;
As mentioned yesterday I managed to get a digital copy of my college newspaper, The Dhúlaigh Reporter and have now transferred the relevant pages to jpg format and uploaded them to the site. You can find the entire News section of […]
The President hates Northern Ireland?
Sunday, February 5th, 2006Iain Paisley has claimed that Mary McAleese, President of the Republic of Ireland, hates Northern Ireland.
‘I don’t like her because she is dishonest… She pretends to love this province and she hates it.’
The comments were made at the DUP conference yesterday and according to RTE were off-script.
Given the efforts made by McAleese in the past […]
Danger as fundamentalists take hold of ignorance
Saturday, February 4th, 2006It would be nearly impossible for you to have missed this story; last October a Danish newspaper printed a cartoon featuring the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Over time the issue has snowballed and last week tensions exploded following a reprint of the cartoon (and similar cartoons) by other European newspapers, who claim to have done so […]
London’s LBC Premium Podcasts
Saturday, February 4th, 2006It was always going to happen but now London’s LBC has started to charge for podcasts.
To be fair the full podcasts of their shows were never available, I came across the station when I found The Iain Lee Show Podcast, which consisted of about 15 minutes of the best bits of the day.
For an admittedly […]
Good old Gmail
Saturday, February 4th, 2006When 1GB mail first came along many people scoffed; sure it was a huge benefit considering we had all become accustomed to 6MB, 4MB, 2MB mail etc., but most people tried to figure out why we’d ever need that much e-mail storage space.
To be fair, and while I am not the worlds biggest e-mailer I […]
Publish the alleged Al Jazeera bomb memo
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006It has been blocked from traditional publication by the UK governments use of the Official Secrets Act, but if this pledger is to be believed you can have a hand in setting it free by showing your support at this PledgeBank page.
Only 5 more people are needed at which point 100 people; myself included will […]
McGuinness blasts the IMC, but are the IRA lying?
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006As reported by Slugger, Martin McGuinness has blasted the IMC report (pdf) and branded the body the non-Independent Monitoring Commission (inventive).
Calling all statement it has made in its report against the IRA as politically motivated he remains convinced that former members of the RUC Special Branch are the ones handing down this information. He also […]
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