2014 – Page 12 – Postcards

John Gormley’s lessons from Governments past…

May 27, 2014May 27, 2014 No Comments

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain John Gormley, late of the Green Party leadership, wrote a prescient article in the Village magazine around this time last year. In it, he listed some rules and lessons he’d learned the hard way during the Green Party’s term in government that led to […]

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Europe Politics

What does it mean? – The Aftermath

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 No Comments

The most annoying thing about most of the commentary about the European elections is that it is dominated (as usual) by people who are only interested in elections, and entirely uninterested in what is actually going on — and what in the long run it might mean for society. John Naughton hits the proverbial nail […]

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Politics

Gilmore to Go?

May 26, 2014 No Comments

On air on RTE 1 TV at 3.55 with what we expect will be Eamonn Gilmore's statement of resignation as Labour Party leader — Bryan Dobson (@bryansixone) May 26, 2014 And the twitterverse is like:

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Bits & Bobs Life

Reader | Broadsheet.ie

May 26, 2014 No Comments

Should be more ‘read’, but yeah, possibly not far wrong. 🙂 Via Reader | Broadsheet.ie.

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Equality Society

A rape analogy | #yesallwomen

May 25, 2014May 25, 2014 No Comments

A useful rape analogy | Feminist Philosophers.

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People Politics

Some Neck – Miriam Lord on Shatter, The Irish Times – Fri, May 23, 2014

May 24, 2014May 24, 2014 No Comments

Shatter does it his way, indeed: Alan declared it would be appropriate “to mark the fact that ministerial surveillance, eh, ministerial . . . em, eh, er, whatever it is.” “Severance! Severance!” cried the hacks, in gleeful assistance ‘‘. . . eh, severance, ministerial severance is no longer payable.” Then, scarcely able to contain his […]

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Bits & Bobs Internets

Friday!

May 23, 2014May 23, 2014 No Comments

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Arts Retro Sci-fi, Steampunk and all that

Illustrations of the Future…

May 22, 2014May 22, 2014 No Comments

Nine Vincent Di Fate illustrations from the “Blueprints of the Future” trading card series.

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Arts Life Photography

Weapon of Choice – An illustration of verbal abuse

May 19, 2014 No Comments

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can cut like knives. Photographer Rich Johnson has created a series of images that try to visualise the wounds that verbal abuse can leave. Called Weapon of Choice — to represent the abuser’s choice to use these words to harm — this project was a collaboration […]

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History Life Society

To the coffee-house!

May 13, 2014 No Comments

This is delightful – “The distractions of social media, 1673 style” by Tom Standage: You know how you can easily lose track of time while checking Twitter and Facebook? And how people worry that social media is distracting people from doing real work (aka “social notworking”)? The same thing happened in the 17th century with […]

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John Gormley’s lessons from Governments past…

What does it mean? – The Aftermath

Gilmore to Go?

Reader | Broadsheet.ie

A rape analogy | #yesallwomen

Some Neck – Miriam Lord on Shatter, The Irish Times – Fri, May 23, 2014

Friday!

Illustrations of the Future…

Weapon of Choice – An illustration of verbal abuse

To the coffee-house!

Year: 2014