Bertie Ahern's Lawyer Threatens Irish Political Website

Somebody calling themselves Saul of Tarsus started a new thread on Politics.ie entitled Grainne Carruth. (You'll remember Gráinne Carruth as the secretary who presented such damaging evidence against Bertie). In [...]

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Essential Parenting Skills

At long last, we leave the dark days of winter. We change the clocks: spring forward, fall back. That's one of those traditional stories people use to terrify children, isn't [...]

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Things are looking up

Well, I collected the Nut's old BMW, which means I have wheels again.  I also decided not to bother replacing the turbo myself.  Why the hell would I when I [...]

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Bertie Ahern: Coalition Begins To Crack

At last, the Progressive Democrats and the Greens have started hinting at misgivings over Bertie's money dealings, as well they might. In any civilised country, they'd have been screaming months [...]

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Limerick Teenagers Earn Millions in Software Deal

Two local lads, Patrick and John Collison, have become millionaires after selling their share in the web-based application they founded. You might remember Patrick (19) from the BT Young Scientist [...]

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Search Engine optimisation? Moi?

I seem to be getting onto Google's front page a lot these days, though I haven't done one single thing that all these SEO gurus advise, like fiddling and twiddling [...]

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Turbo Trouble

Turbo wrecked. Car stopped. Big decision. Replace turbo or replace car? Any experts out there?

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Brian Rossiter — Report on Death of Child in Custody Due Shortly

In 2002, 14-year-old Brian Rossiter came home with a black eye and headaches after being attacked by a man in Clonmel. Two days later he was arrested on a public [...]

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Notes From Hacksville: Is This Plagiarism?

I came across a post on a site called Notes From Hacksville that reproduced in its entirety this article from the Irish Times. Looking more closely, I noticed that they [...]

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