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Investigating Anglo-Irish Bank If you were in charge of a criminal investigation into the collapse of a bank, how many people would you put on the job? Hmm. Now there's a tough one. [...] Full Story	Gizmodo Bans Its Own Editor For Breaching Comments Policy This site has a fairly liberal comments policy, but there are certain limits that everyone is asked to observe, the most important of which is the requirement to respect other [...] Full Story	Creating A Young Billionaire As I flipped idly through the Forbes list of billionaires, alternating between astonishment and sheer, venomous resentment, I found myself searching for some kind of relief from the endless carousel [...] Full Story
Ivor Callely Arrested Twice In a joint operation with itself, the Garda Bilocation Unit has carried out simultaneous arrests of Ivor Callely in Dublin and Cork. Supt Peadar Pio, joint head of the unit [...] Full Story	IMF Warns of Global Economic Collapse Due To Euro Crisis The IMF is now saying that small countries shouldn't be rescuing the European banking system on their own and that the EU as a whole should step in to deal [...] Full Story	Hermann Goering's Embarrassing Relatives If you happen to be a Reichsmarschall , senior to all other military officers in the German armed forces, and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, you're bound to think of yourself [...] Full Story
Ireland's Catholic Guilt Forces Us To Pay The Bondholders Klaus Masuch shifts uncomfortably in his seat as Vincent Browne commits the ultimate sin by asking him a direct question and refusing to accept bland, meaningless jargon for an answer. [...] Full Story	Public Service Broadcasting The government is changing the TV licence. Instead of charging you for having a television, they're going to charge you for reading the internet, but only because they think you're [...] Full Story	Northampton 36 — Munster 51 At half time it was 19 each. I glanced at Wrinkly Joe and he glanced back at me. Jesus, we could actually do this. Do what? Go to Northampton, that's [...] Full Story
Occupy March, Limerick This just came in. While I might quibble with some of the details, I can't disagree with the sentiments. Be angry, folks. Be angry at the plundering and theft of [...] Full Story	Margaret Thatcher — The Iron Lady I don't know if Elvis Costello's views about Margaret Thatcher have mellowed at all since he wrote Tramp The Dirt Down, but I doubt it. Well I hope I don't [...] Full Story	Happy New Year I don't care if it rains or freezes, just as long as I got my plastic Jesus Full Story

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Intellect Struck by Lightning Every now and then, I'm sent a video promoting something or other and invited to [...] Logical Structures Clear thinking is an essential part of our existence Christopher Hitchens is Dead Why would you write RIP for a confirmed atheist? He's not resting. He's not in [...] See all posts	Limerick Is Marks and Spencer the Answer to Limerick's Problems? I want to welcome another new contributor to Bock. Nigel Dugdale is a young Limerick [...] Limerick City Council Prays to Marks & Spencer It doesn't matter, apparently, how many talented, creative, committed citizens come together to produce ideas [...] What Should be Done With The Opera Centre? For readers outside this town, let me explain what the Opera Centre is. It's a [...] See all posts	Music Toby Kaar at Bourkes Bar Bourke's Bar in Limerick's Catherine Street has found its Thursday night feet with a series [...] Imelda May at the Limerick Milk Market Rocking the Milk Market again Oxegen Cancelled The market for cheap two-man tents, slabs of Dutch Gold and pink flowery wellies has [...] See all posts
Photography Faces Lytro Light-Field Camera Released Imagine being able to shoot a picture in three dimensions using a camera costing €300. [...] Out and About in the Countryside A few pictures See all posts	Physical World Fracking in Ireland John O'Connor is an Irish doctor working in Canada since 1993. He recently provided this [...] Rainy Weather Time to take a break from the elements Rain, Rain and More Rain Jesus Christ, it's pissing rain again. Will this rain ever stop? I ask myself, and [...] See all posts	Politics Ivor Callely Arrested Twice In a joint operation with itself, the Garda Bilocation Unit has carried out simultaneous arrests [...] Hermann Goering's Embarrassing Relatives If you happen to be a Reichsmarschall , senior to all other military officers in [...] Troika Inspectors Give Ireland an A-Grade Well, aren't we the best boys and girls in the whole wide world? Yet again, [...] See all posts
Religion Pope Reminds Faithful that Christmas is About Humility, Not Money Sometimes, life is its own satire and there's no point adding anything, because to do [...] Priest-Cam A parishioner suggested to me the other day that I should take advantage of the [...] Prayers and Jokes Over a civilised pint this evening, people happened to mention their big fat Catholic childhood. [...] See all posts	Sport Northampton 36 — Munster 51 At half time it was 19 each. I glanced at Wrinkly Joe and he glanced [...] Used To Be This Place Was Angry Used to be a testing ground for theories, opinions or ideas which were debated and, [...] What's in the News? It's been a busy old day, but it was one of those days where I [...] See all posts	Technology Kodak Files For Bankruptcy Taste and smell are the things that define our earliest memories, and I can still [...] E-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped Is there anything that shows up the stupidity of the Ahern years better than the [...] MIT Develops Trillion-Frame Camera Researchers at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology have developed a camera that can take a [...] See all posts