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Rabbitte Scampers Off After Brutal Election...

Pat Rabbitte has today stepped down as leader of Ireland’s third-largest political party after Fine Gael and the government party Fianna Fáil. Rabbitte, who failed to become elected on the first count in his Dublin West constituency on May 25th 2007, has been leader of Labour since 2002, succeeding former Finance Minister in the Rainbow Coalition Ruarí Quinn. Mr. Rabbitte, another of the wiley Mayo men to come...
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Bertie – Longest Service for Consecutive Lea...

From the Irish Independent newspaper today: BERTIE Ahern has said he is “honoured” that he will today break Eamon de Valera’s record for the longest consecutive number of days as Taoiseach. He will have been in the country’s top job for 3,705 days, one more than his illustrious predecessor who served for 3,704 days from December 1937 to February 1948. Mr Ahern, who is currently on holidays in...
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Diarmy Lends Vocal Chords to Podiobook...

Gary Hicks, a friend and former work colleague, has cut his teeth in the Podiobook world with his first audio novel ‘Terra Incognita’. As part of the production, Diarmy was called upon to lend his voice to the cast of characters who enact the novel for the world to hear. Here’s the gist of the story: Drawn together apparently by the hand of fate, Trent and Cole escape the oppressive totalitarian domed...
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O2’s EDGE Network Reaches Galway...

To continue the previous topic a bit, the O2 GPRS to EDGE migration has reached Ireland’s western shores. Most mobile users on Ireland’s best network would be unaware of this change, save for BlackBerry users who support EDGE natively (and spell it out for you too!) So the iPhone is now clearly imminent. The change happened for me last night at about 2300hrs. I lost all connections and when signal returned...
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O2 starts EDGE Network Rollout – iPhone Immi...

On a ridiculous journey from Kerry to Dublin and on to Galway last Sunday, I noticed when I was in the Ballinasloe area of Galway that my Blackberry happily said it was now on the EDGE network from O2. I thought this was an anomaly, but then I thought about who was most likely getting the iPhone for Ireland – Telefonica’s operated O2. As I was driving at the time, I didn’t get the chance to check if...
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New iMac – I WANT ONE!...

Aside from the hype and hysteria of the iPhone seen earlier this year, I’ve been waiting for something a bit more special. In what has become the side-story of the year, Apple were long over due to release an updated design for the iMac computer. A long time ago, those who trawl the internet for news on such things from great sites like AppleInsider and others, knew it would be encased in anodised-aluminium like...
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Diarmy. Simpsonised...

Yesterday, I paid a quick visit to SimpsonizeMe.Com and uploaded the obligatory photograph to become a Simpsons character. So, here’s what came up! diarmy
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Absence...

Apologies to all the readers who’ve noticed a total lack of blogging in recent weeks. My personal life has been quite intense lately (more on that soon!) but I’m finally coming to terms with it. Needless to say, the trickle of thoughts will flow from now on again! diarmy
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