Articles tagged ‘Ireland’

Travelistic

By Seán | October 20th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Bootsnall has just partnered with www.travelistic.com which is kind of a YouTube for travel videos.
There’s loads of strange and wonderful videos up there. At the moment, they haven’t much on Ireland aside from a couple of American-overdubbed French shorts on Dublin. Well, we’ll have to see if we can fix that . . .
Here’s a [...]

 

Athlone threatened by nuclear fallout

By Seán | October 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Ireland has a number of power plants. Despite what you may have heard, they are not run on donkey poo, but on turf.
Good aul turf! Guaranteed to keep Ireland in electric juice for the next, oh, 10 years!!
Just across the sea though, our neighours in the UK have a lovely nuclear power plant [...]

 

Celtic Tiger Golfing Porn?

By Seán | September 21st, 2006 | Add a Comment »

This weekend is the Ryder Cup; the biggest event in a sport invented a stone’s throw from Ireland. I suppose it makes sense, Ireland presents an ideal environment for it - gently rippling landscape covered with perpetually green grass. There are at least five golf courses that I’m aware of just here in Athlone.
The [...]

 

Talk like a pirate day

By Seán | September 20th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

So, when I lived stateside I used to read Dave Barry’s column regularly. One of the wonderful things he brought to my attention is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
This sort of absurdity rarely penetrates here in Ireland. Irish culture is already full to the brim with the absurd - making it difficult for new [...]