Today has mostly been a day of results, rather than craziness ( Read more... )

Although it seems a little strange to call it crazy, because we're in a bit of a calm spot, but we'll keep with the naming convention for the moment.

After the breakneck pace of events over the weekend, things really have calmed down. There have been two major threads to the story, and a few minor ones, progressing since then.

Finance Bill: So ( Read more... )

News coming thick and fast now ( Read more... )

So, a Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader walks into a hotel room ( Read more... )

So, I last posted just shy of two months ago. I'm need to write more (although immediate points are being made via Twitter), but the biggest piece of personal news was embargoed and in relation to society & politics it all boiled down to the fact that Fianna Fáil were still in government & bastards and the increasing evidence about the evils of the ( Read more... )

Wow ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking about this for a day and a bit and I've finally decided to post. This is probably not a post that will make certain people happy, and even considering the relatively low readership, I'll probably have people thinking I'm giving the wrong impression of Irish Sci-Fi cons, but, ya know, I'm long past worrying about things like ( Read more... )

So, unless you don't look at news you'll see, around the world, reports of just how financially screwed Ireland is. There are many figures being bandied about but the main one is that, assuming the dust settles at some point soon, we will have spent €50 Billion bailing out banks. My brain cannot conceive of that figure. €50 Billion. ( Read more... )

So, the pope is visiting the UK, it's a state visit and he was invited by the government and the Queen. Cool. I don't really care who the UK invites to visit, but I do want to mention a couple of things in passing. I mean, it won't come as a surprise to anyone reading this that I don't like the pope, at all. In fact, I think he's a force for ( Read more... )

So, our glorious leader has stated that the three lingering by-elections (Donegal South West, Dublin South & Waterford) won't happen until next year, but it should be in the spring. This is him presumably trying to get his act in order before the courts force him to. He's muttered all sorts of things about their being more important things the ( Read more... )