No Bertie for Sligo
Looks like Bertie aint welcome in Sligo, by Irish the students at least: “As Mr. Ahern arrived at the IT, the students, congregated outside the main entrance and foyer, turned their...
22 November 2003
World Cup 03
So the IRB RWC 2003 is at an end. Okay so the 3rd place play off still has to come, doesn’t it? but in reality the competition is all over. All...
22 November 2003
Turkey
strangely enough bombs in Indonesia tend to kill more people from Jakarta than Jersey and yet always it is an attack on our interests, on our culture. Is it this reaction as much as anything else that sickens the people of these countries who have been attacked, it certainly sickens me – that we cannot sympathise or understand but merely try to transfer this into our own framework, one that is easier for us to accept. The message is therefore – ‘well we’re sorry that some of your people died, but imagine how it must feel for us’.
21 November 2003
Slanging match
Politicians or just big kids?Paisley and Trimble in Slanging Match. Personally I think Paisley is great craic, but that may be because I don’t have to deal with him, or others...
18 November 2003
College work
Well it is the end of another day in which I got no work done. Okay I did manage to make it to the library and read a couple of articles...
17 November 2003
The Meatrix
Came across this little film was browsing around:THE MEATRIX: Fight Factory Farms!. Its an anti-factory farm site but the film itself is kinda amusing and weel made so you can just...
17 November 2003
Signs dir. by M. Night Shyamalan
I found this to be a very disappointing film. I had enjoyed Shyamalan’s films and had hoped for something equally as good. It wasn’t even a twist that I was looking...
17 November 2003
France v England
Well France played England today, and I actually got out of bed before 9 on a Sunday morning to watch a match that Ireland were not involved in. Wish I hadn’t....
16 November 2003
Seabiscuit [based on book] by Laura Hillenbrand dir. by Gary Ross
Went to see this film last night, and really really enjoyed it. Course I am a horse-person, but have never been a huge fan of horse racing. And you don’t need...
16 November 2003
Dogville dir. by Lars Von Trier
This is not a film for everyone, as I watched it quite a few members of the audience left. One couple even left with less the 20 minutes to go, nevertheless...
15 November 2003
Cold Mountain [based on book] by Charles Frazier dir. by Anthony Minghella
I’m going to start this review by saying that I loved this film, it was really great. And I had had doubts before I went to see it. I hadn’t much...
15 November 2003
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