Pubs to serve high visibility jackets, read Tim O’Brien’s piece in Friday’s Irish Times. Members of the Vintners Federation of Ireland will loan out 30,000 hi-viz jackets, presumably paid for by FBD (Insurance), in 4,200 rural pubs nationwide. Mr. O’Brien reports that 10% of pedestrians killed in 2003 were drunk and lying on the road. [...]
And so the pig meat sage continues. And new questions are being asked with each passing day. Were the authorities overreacting when they ordered that all pig meat be taken off shop shelves, out of cold-stores and domestic fridges and destroyed? Probably. If the same traceability systems used for beef and mutton were in place [...]
In early November Bord Gáis had proposed a price increase of on average 3.9%, with ESB proposing an increase of 5.6%. Remember gas and electricity prices have already risen by 20% and 17.5% respectively this year. The Commission for Energy Regulation yesterday announced that the proposed gas and electricity price rises are to be scrapped [...]
She shifted in her seat, better to view the label on the proffered bottle. An extremely attractive immaculately dressed young woman, she had the eye of every man present. They watched as she studied more closely, then accepted a sampling. The glass twirled, held up to the light. A brush beneath the nose. A sip. [...]
In February I overheard Tweets about an upcoming event to be held in Dublin. “Breakthrough to Success“, a 3-day training course on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Neurological Repatterning, being offered by (the apparently famous) Christopher Howard at a cost per head of €1,200. It had slipped off my radar until I learned that three people [...]
A guy I know approached yesterday me about setting up a website for a horseracing syndicate he and nine others have just formed. He explained the requirements: We want the name to be theladsfromthepubracingsyndicate.com. Dot COM is cheaper than dot IE, right? It’ll have a password and only the ten of us will be able [...]
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