8 July 2010
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I’m still a busy little bee working away and retagging old posts. I’m now up to September 2006. That’s only another four years to go and I’ll be up to date! errr, that’s a lot of posts. Tis odd though, … Continue reading
4 October 2007
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This morning, as I walked to work, I happened to glance at the headline of my Metro Family anger at killings verdict. And I thought to myself, this couldn’t be the family of the armed raiders shot while robbing a … Continue reading
1 June 2007
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I apologise for posting so much nothingness and links today, but dude! Samurai swords! Two men have been arrested in Castleconnel after a row in which two, maybe three samurai swords were involved.
26 June 2006
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Veronica Guerin. For those of you who don’t know Guerin was a journalist who mainly wrote crime stories. Exposing drug lords and crime gangs. She was shot and killed as she … Continue reading
8 May 2006
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So many topics, so little inclination. Nevertheless[1] I shall write something, about something. I could bring up the high speed bus chase through Dublin[2] yesterday, which resulted in one fatality and many injuries, and some people asking why the gardaí … Continue reading
15 December 2005
Cast: Jack Black, Kyle Chandler, Naomi Wat, Ray McKinnon
Setting: Mississippi
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The whole country had learned through the heartfelt appeals by Robert’s parents, Mark and Majella, that their son feared the dark and, aware of that, a garda charged with preserving the scene asked Fr O’Donovan to pass on a message to the family if he thought it appropriate.
Fr O’Donovan recalled: “He said, ‘I was one of two gardaà who kept watch with Robert last night . . . I would like the parents to know that Robert wasn’t alone last night – I spoke to him all the time’; and then he concluded, ‘I just wish I had a blanket to wrap around him’.”
18 July 2005
Cast: Billy Crystal, Brenda Fricker, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Emily Mortimer, Gerard McSorley, Jean Simmons
Script: Carol Doyle, Hayao Miyazaki, Mary Agnes Donoghue
Genre: biopic
Setting: Ireland
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Went to see Veronica Guerin last week. It a film based on the true story of Veronica Guerin, a journalist with the Irish Independent who was murdered in 1996 because of her investigations into organised crime in Dublin. In the … Continue reading
28 June 2005
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Alive in Limerick gives a synopsis of the attack on a couple, and the subsequent gang-rape of a woman in Limerick which is back in the news because of the sentencing of Stephen Barry to 21 years in prison. Continue reading
22 June 2005
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Well the last few posts have mainly been about the “oh-so-exciting” [1] move of the blog from one location to another. So I thought I may as well give a little round-up of what’s been going on elsewhere. On Friday … Continue reading
14 June 2005
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Breakingnews.ie say that young people, people in Munster and Sinn Féin voters all have something in common. Can you tell what it is yet?