Skangerland

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Are you startin' or wha'?

If you're new in town and you want to have a little look around Skangerland then this is the place to start. A few old favourites:

Da Bertie Code	Garda Reserve	The Irish Sopranos
Behave	Mary Harney Decides	Liffey Driving

Now check out a few more pages and we hope you see something you like. You'll find a mixture of the serious and the frivolous, but that's life and we make no apologies for it. Jaysus knows we could all do with a laugh the odd time.

Labels: Charlie Haughey, Da Bertie Code, DaVinci, Dublin, Fianna Failure, Garda Reserve, Last Supper, Liam Lawlor, Liffey, Mary Harney, Padraig Flynn, Ray Burke, RTÉ, The Irish Sopranos, transport

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Panto season

It's definitely all got a bit (more) stupid.

Michael Lowry to star in pantomime as 'Good Mayor' (makes a change from his usual role as limelight-hog and tax-dodger).

And in Kerry, "Dozens sympathise with sex offender" (dozens including a Parish Priest, according to Mark Little - nice timing and PR skills there Father Mc Priesty).

Aren't we a grand little country?

Labels: Catholics, Irish Times, Mark Little, Michael Lowry, sexual abuse, twitter

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

It gets stranger #Trafigura

My tweet about the removal of the News Statesman #trafigura article on the removal of the BBC news story has been removed!

Glinner on Twitter

See also this earlier post.

The New Statesman article is here.

Youtube Newsnight is here, for now...

Labels: #Trafigura, Graham Linehan, Trafigura, twitter

Sounds reasonable...

The Guardian's take on "What David Miliband should say to Tzipi Livni"

Labels: Britain, David Miliband, human rights, Israel, Tzipi Livni

Monday, December 14, 2009

Molloy would not be impressed

Dear Bicycle, I shall not call you bike...

According to Dublin City Council the new €59,950,000 Samuel Beckett Bridge is "an important pedestrian and cycle crossing facility".

If that's the case then why are the cycle facilities so comprehensively shite?

Just how cretinously bad they are is described in impressively calm and well-illustrated detail here.

Labels: bicycle, cycle tracks, cycling, Dublin, transport

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Education Educashun Edewkashin

I'm all for the separation of church and state, but I'm reluctant to support an educational campaign group that has a spelling mistake in its own name.

Labels: education, Facebook