Inside View

Cyber connections for social protest

NEW MEDIA CUTS -- Tim Kirby lives in a part of Dublin that seems to regularly attract social protest and you can see the opinions stream from the streets to his blog. A pocket of residents are resisting payments for rubbish collection, a...

Ethics in the Sunday Papers

Listen or watch on YouTube. ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR in Irish politics is a long-standing deficiency. The Sunday paper's try to unpack 2375 pages of investigation into a local national politician but even the easy-reading criticism of Micha...

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Freefi Books

AS A YOUNG teen, I spent a lot of time in our local library. The only problem with it was its location nearly eight miles away.We can walk to the Cashel library but we don't do it often enough. Today I brought Mia in for storytelli...

Living Where Object Maps Would Help

I LIVE IN A semi-rural area in Ireland (evidence at left) where nobody knows the numerical designations of most of the roads. This seasoned ignorance becomes apparent when American visitors ring up for instructions, politely mentioning t...

Moleskine the most helpful invention

THE MOST HELPFUL invention that has allowed me to do my work better is the Moleskine journal. It's something I thought about when considering a question from Science Week Ireland. I carry a Moleskine more often than I carry my mobile p...

Money in Sunday News

A QUICK SCAN of the Irish Sunday newspapers reveals plenty of stories (and some inserts) concerning money. That's a nice topic to consider around Christmas time, innit? Even when you factor out payments (pronounced "dig out" in Irish) to...

Education 2.0 after oeb08

ONE WEEK AFTER Online Educa Berlin wrapped up for me, I'm still mulling over challenges I did not address at that well-attended conference. Specifically, I spent time looking at ways to enhance the top end of our curriculum, not the low-...

Kilkenny People in court

KILKENNY -- One of the best reads in Ireland are the accounts of local court cases carried by the Kilkenny People. These gems appear this week:

We Need Food for More than Good Taste

Listen I SPENT A GLORIOUS EVENING mingling with people who appreciate good food and with people who produce great foodstuff. And by the end of the evening, I realised I was complicit in the decline of locally-produced ...

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I have no Irish ID. Am I a threat?

KILKENNY -- I passed through Dublin Airport four times during the past nine weeks without requisite photo identification. I need a National Immigration ID card to stay in Ireland. Because of a creaky infrastructure system in the regions,...