I’m quite concerned about the potential impact of a BREXIT, and have been avidly following events on Twitter. At some point you do need to pull yourself out of the Twitter bubble and take a reality hit. Today was the day I did that, and it’s also the day I realised that this isn’t an […]
This ‘Brexit’ event is surely the greatest existential crisis for the UK since Suez back in 1956, which was the moment the UK realised it was no longer a global power, able to dictate events on the world stage alone. Sunday was a day where the complete lack of direction from Westminster really started to […]
“What if columnists wrote about the U.K. the way they do about the Middle East?” asks Karl Sharro in The Atlantic. It’s quite well done, he elicits opinions from two ‘representative’ members of the ‘locale’ in question and draws a picture based on something that happened thousands of years previously, happily mixing in the local […]
Nicola Sturgeon looks like the only person with a firm hand on the tiller in the UK, given the almost civil war within the Labour Party, the obviously divided and rudderless Conservatives, and the fact that Cameron is resigning. She’s the only one sounding calm, confident and more importantly the only one with what at […]
A summary of events: UK politics update:Government: PM resigns, but not quite yet. Opposition: Tearing itself apartScotland: Leaving https://t.co/I741HiBLvC — Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) June 26, 2016 Quite.
“I would never have made that claim…” Watch Farage move sideways fast here: WATCH: @Nigel_Farage tells @susannareid100 it was a ‘mistake’ for Leave to claim there’d be £350M a week for NHShttps://t.co/JNkl5k8IlK — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 24, 2016 Breathtaking.
There’s a set of underpasses for cycling/walking at the M50/N81 junction in Tallaght which connect Tallaght village with Templeogue and Firhouse. This puts the underpass into the routing for Firhouse-City and Tallaght-City, in addition to local cycle routes e.g. Firhouse-Tymon Park. I rarely if ever use this route, even though it’s much nicer, quieter and […]
My peony bloomed late this year, not until 11th May. April was unusually cold. Previously: 2015, 2014