Reading around on parts of the Irish internet yesterday, during the visit of Barack Obama to Ireland, I saw a lot of exclamations in this vein: I spent the whole day watching it on TV3, fantastic stuff. I get goosepimples when I see the Americans landing here, theres something fantastically grand and epic about it… [Read more…]
May 22, 2011
I wrote to the editor of the Irish Times this morning. I have little hope that my letter will be published, and so I thought I would post the letter here too. Madam, Today the American president visits Irish soil, to a sycophantic welcome from our political class and from the general public. It would… [Read more…]
January 10, 2011
In an odd turn of events, the Irish opposition party, Fine Gael, claims on its website that the site was hacked on the evening of January 9th by “a group calling itself the Anonymous group.” The statement goes on to link Anonymous to Wikileaks, in a move possibly betraying a lack of understanding of Anonymous.… [Read more…]
May 24, 2011
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