Rugby World Cup 2015 Confirm Ireland Team Bases
Rugby World Cup 2015 have confirmed the locations of Ireland’s four Team Bases for the Pool Stages of the tournament next autumn. Ireland have been drawn in Pool D alongside France, Italy, Canada and Romania with Ireland kicking their RWC15 campaign ...
Song Title Survey
Okay…I apologize for not doing a real post, but this is what you do when all you have is 5 minutes to spare and/or if you are bored. The rules: 1. Put your music player on shuffle on all your music. 2. Press forward for each question. 3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it do ...
How We Think About The Dead
The New York Times described Michael Brown as “no angel.” An unfortunate choice of words on the day of his funeral. Especially if you consider (as Vox does here) the carefully worded descriptions they had published about some well-known mass killers. Timothy McVeigh, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, the ...
How mystery shopping can save your business
It seems that there is a lot of companies struggling at the moment with bad customer service experiences. This is not uncommon and if your company suffers right now from a bad PR or simply a lack of customers then it is time for you to test your business and your team. Mystery shopping can help unra ...
Irish Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act is like a bad board game called forced birth
A woman who recently emigrated to Ireland has provided a sad test case for the 2013 Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, a piece of legislation passed after the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar. legislation that was supposed to allow for abortion when the life of a pregnant woman was at risk ...
Thornley Stoker: Creepy and Caring
Bram Stoker's mother told him horror stories, when he was a little boy and too sick to get out of bed. His oldest brother, Sir Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet, became the Inspector of Vivesection for all of Ireland. Vivisection comes from the latin words: "vivus" and "sectio," which mean "alive" and "c ...
It's a Whopper of a Double Double
The latest "inversion" of Tim Horton's and Burger King was expected--as a tax planning concept. What wasn't expected is that it took so long for a major company to opt for Canada rather than, say, Ireland as a place to do an "inversion". The differential in corporate taxation between Canada and the ...
The pro-European "forces" in Britain are remarkably quiet
The pro-European "forces" in Britain are remarkably quiet when it comes to Cameron's and other Tories attacks on democracy, human rights and on Europe. Why is that? I know you do exist in rather big numbers, in all levels of the "British" society. But why are you so quiet? Why don't you wage a war o ...
Online Video Directory Website!
With nearly 200 countries in the world, looking at every Search engine statistic may of little value for the readers. So for ease of reading I have summarised any one the main country statistics in the table below, and general practitioner . other countries for comparison in factors text. The rancor ...
A Moment In Time
I am recording videos for my class this week so I have little art to show you. So I think this week I'll show some random photographs that I took on my trip to Ireland. Just a small snippet of beauty here and there. This is at my friend Donna Higton's home in England, well her garden actually. Wishi ...
Tiny Footsteps & A Parents Heartache!
Tiny Feet & A Parents Heartache Baby Sky -13th October 2013 Doing what other couples do, arguing, having fun, debating, laughing, cuddling and being bestfriends, something I think every couple will experience. Rachel and I felt so ordinary and never felt any different from anybody else, until one da ...
