Surviving Christmas
[ad#adc-1] Christmas is over and thank god for that. Once again I survived and only with minor injuries. By Christmas standards it actually went well especially taken into consideration that with Christmas being on Thursday and Friday we had four days off this year. When you spend Christmas with your whole family that is cool [...]
Night Link to Finglas
[ad#adc-1] Dublin Busses night link is by far the cheapest, often enough the quickest and without the shadow of a doubt the most entertaining way to get home at night. If you are in Dublin and you do live outside city centre you have to give it a go. Taxis are for sissies. For many [...]
Movie review “In Bruges”
[ad#adc-1] I finally managed to watch the movie “In Bruges” and oh lord it’s awesome. I’m not normally a big fan of Colin Farrell but in this movie kicks ars. I’ll give you an example although I am not sure if the scene is as funny without actually hearing Farrel with his thick Irish accent. [...]
Second Referendum over Lisbon
Our Massimo Leader Brian Cowen today officially announced what we knew would happen all along anyways. Before the end of October next year we will have a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty. The Taoiseach negotiated a few deals that take Irish concerns into consideration. As it looks we keep our European commissioner and we [...]
When children start carrying guns
gun crimes are bad enough but when children start shooting innocent citizen things are really getting out of hand
Pork crisis in Ireland
Ireland made headlines all over Europe this week and as you can probably guess it wasn’t exactly good news. It never is. Pork produced in Ireland had to be taken off the shelves all over Europe since it turned out to be toxic. OK, full stop here. When it says toxic it doesn’t mean you [...]
Favourite quotes
My favourite quote of all times is “I know nothing, I’m from Barcelona”. Ideally you should know it in several languages; Spanish for example because there it makes even less sense (Yo no se nada, soy de Barcelona). The original quote is from the TV show Fawlty towers although I picked it up from a [...]
Christmas in Dublin
Christmas in Dublin … OMG
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