Archive for December, 2006
It’s just an accounting mechanism…
Sunday, December 31st, 20062006 has been stacked full of important moments for me. I turned 21, I had my first nationally-published article, I got my journalism degree and I got some priceless experience in a newspaper office. I think it’s safe to say that this has been the most eventful and important year for me in a fair […]
Download the Moriarty Tribunal’s first report
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006The first report of the Moriarty Tribunal has just been published.
The Tribunal was set up in 1997 to investigate the finances of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and former Fine Gael Minister Michael Lowry (you can read a bit more about it on the wikipedia).
According to RTÉ the report is highly critical of Haughey, even more […]
Blog apathy, vinyl love
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006I have about 1,000 topics in my head that I’d love to blog about, but keep finding myself deleting my draft about 2 paragraphs into the discussion.
Part of the reason is that I’m listening to the latest addition to my ever-growing vinyl collection, Tool’s Lateralus. As with every Tool release in recent times it’s beautifully […]
First they taketh… then they taketh some more
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006Conan O’Brien’s latest piece of cult comedy, which has snowballed from an ad-lib quip into an internet sensation, is another example of the online world at its finest, but it also shows the gap in thinking between the new and old media types.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, this NYT […]
Here’s some of what I missed
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006Plenty has happened in recent weeks that I had hoped to blog about in detail, but never got the chance, so here’s a quick round-up of just a few of the bits and pieces that have been and gone without a mention in these quarters.
Media
The Defamation Bill was debated in the Seanad, as details of […]
Let’s skip the apologies and move onto the detail, shall we?
Monday, December 11th, 2006I feel like every single one of my last few blog posts have been apologies and explanations as to why I haven’t been blogging much. I’m serious this time, though, full service resumes today.
Lot’s to do on the site; the Portfolio page hasn’t been updated since August and the CV and About page could probably […]
Espie to head unofficial FF party in North (SBP - 10th December 2006)
Sunday, December 10th, 2006An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post. Unfortunately the article didn’t turn up in the online version, but it’s available in the print edition (scan here), and I’ve transcribed it below:
Former SDLP members — including the party’s former vice-chairman and a former Lord Mayor of Belfast — are setting up an unofficial Fianna […]
A prophecy I didn’t want to come true
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006…although I always knew it would.
Most people will have some kind of memory of the tragic 2004 Asian tsunami; it’s one of those incidents that you’re unlikely to ever forget completely (which isn’t a bad thing).
While the massive loss of life is what made the event so horrible, one other aspect of it that always […]
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