School Daze
The Irish Times (sub required) published it’s Feeder Schools report today. My old Secondary (High) School performed very badly and I can’t say I’m too surprised. The report said that 30-odd people did the Leaving Cert (final school exam) in my alma mater last year and only an incredibly low 15% went to [...]
Devious putdown
A friend of mine said the most evil, devious, vicious, dismissive comment about a semi-public figure I’ve ever heard. It was a classic example of parish-pump politics. He said, ‘yer man will be attending 4 or 5 communions this year.’
For those who are non-religious/non-Catholics, it meant that he’d been shagging anything that moved [...]
UK postal strike nears resolution
Postal workers in the UK have been on strike for the past few days. Their leaders have negotiated a settlement with management. Normal work will resume once the postal workers agree to the deal…
…Once the deal is posted out to them. Then all they have to do is post the yea/nay forms [...]
Rathmines population = 5million souls
According to Dublin City Council’s website, the population of Rathmines = 4.9M people.
What is the population of Rathmines etc? #5820
Central Statistics Office - 4,984,000
NTL are pants
In Sept 2006 and March 2007, I wrote about the appalling customer service I’d received from NTL.
Sigh, here we go again…
A Brazilian friend is moving to a new apartment. It’s all a bit sudden…her partner died recently and she can’t afford the rent. Her English isn’t very good and she’s [...]