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Student literacy levels

March 30, 2007 – 7:36 am

This week, Din-do ran an article by Kim Bielenberg about literacy levels amongst Irish students. He quoted economist Moore McDowell (yeah, yer man’s brother) who described some of his own students as barely semi-literate.
Dr. Martin O’Grady was also quoted: It is a big problem. Many students don’t even put capital letters at the start of [...]

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Time Thief Arrested

March 12, 2007 – 9:39 am

Another week of doing the thing is over. The Time Thief was apprehended in the early hours of Saturday morning and has been detained under section 21 of the offences against normality act.
What a week. Each week doing the thing seems to hit me harder. Pure adrenalin keeps me going but when it [...]

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Time thief

March 6, 2007 – 6:11 am

This is yet another one of the weeks when I’m doing the thing. The thing runs from 9:00 to 17:30 which is fine. That’s like a working day. It’s the extra four, five or six hours to be tackled in the evening that that’s the killer. It devours time. The [...]

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Exam results

February 16, 2007 – 2:12 pm

I’ve just been reading Eolaí’s latest post on how being online helps him remain Irish while away. It’s very good. Great even. So check it out while it’s still hot.
In it, he, being Lord of the Lists, mentions the 20 best Irish sites for maintaining your Irishnessness while abroad. At [...]

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