Current Affairs
Posted: Submitted by Seosamh on Sun, 2007-04-29 17:28.Schedule of Events: (not fully finalised)
Friday 22nd June:
Opening Ceremony and Tournament Draw
Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Way
8pm – 11pm
After-party
Molly Malone’s, Circular Road
11pm – late
Saturday 23rd June:
Asian Gaelic Games: Day 1 Tournament Play
Singapore Polo Grounds, Mt Pleasant Road
9am – 5pm
Saturday Night Party:
Fort Canning Green
8pm – 12am
Sunday 24th June:
Asian Gaelic Games: Day 2 Tournament Play
Singapore Polo Grounds, Mt Pleasant Road
9am – 5pm
Finals, Awards, Presentations and pitch-side craic.
Close-out Party
Venue TBD
9pm
Posted: Submitted by Laurence Kenny on Tue, 2006-12-12 21:34.http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1211/primetime.html
Rip-offs in the Irish housing market - guaranteed to make you want to kill someone.
Posted: Submitted by Seosamh on Tue, 2006-12-12 12:07.Hi Guys,
I know some of you may have just left the olde Science Park but you can now come back as a tourist!!! (excluding mainlanders of course, security risk etc....)
So book your tickets now for one non-stop 90 minutes tour of fun!!
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Hsinchu Science Park to open to tours
Hsinchu Science Park authorities yesterday announced that they will open Taiwan's hi-tech industry hub to sightseeing trips on a trial basis beginning January 1, 2007, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN). During the initial stage the authorities will allow 90-minute trips by a daily total of 500 local and foreign tourists. Tourists from China will not be allowed until the government relaxes the restrictions on their visits to science parks, the paper added.
Posted: Submitted by The Tipperary Tiger on Wed, 2006-07-19 19:34.Population hits highest level in 145 years at 4.2 million
11:49 Wednesday July 19th 2006
Ireland's population has reached its highest level in 145 years, according to preliminary census figures published by the Central Statistics Office today.
The CSO says Ireland's population at the time of the census in April was just over 4.2 million, a rise of 318,000 on the 2002 head-count.
The increase is mainly due to immigration and brings Ireland's population to its highest level since 1861.
North Dublin and Co Meath have both seen their populations rise by more than a fifth since the last census, while Cork city and Limerick city are the only areas to register a decrease
From Ireland, EU hears hum of cheap labor
From Ireland, EU hears hum of cheap labor
By Peter Ford, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Thu Apr 27,
4:00 AM ET
DUBLIN, IRELAND - A scruffy 22-year-old Pole in an oily blue T-shirt,
Rafal Dambiec is an unlikely symbol of the
European Union's idealistic vision of its future.
Just getting off his night shift as a gas station attendant, all he
wanted to do Tuesday morning was to go to bed.
Wolfing down an Irish breakfast of sausages, buttered bread, and tea,
Mr. Dambiec is a pioneer - albeit unlikely - of the cross-border
get-up-and-go that EU leaders say will be key to their continent's
Ben & Jerry's sorry for Irish "Black & Tan" upset
Fri Apr 21, 2:39 PM ET
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's have apologized for causing offence by calling a new flavor "Black & Tan" -- the nickname of a notoriously violent British militia that operated during Ireland's war of independence.
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The ice cream, available only in the United States, is based on an ale and stout drink of the same name.
"Any reference on our part to the British Army unit was absolutely unintentional and no ill-will was ever intended," said a Ben & Jerry's spokesman.
"Ben & Jerry's was built on the philosophies of peace and love," he added.
Posted: Submitted by Seosamh on Fri, 2006-04-21 12:01.Ireland's War of Independence: The chilling story of the Black and Tans
Ben & Jerry's decision to give their latest flavour of ice-cream the same name as Churchill's notorious army has provoked howls of protest. David McKittrick describes the force's reign of terror against Irish nationalists
Published: 21 April 2006
To practically the whole world it may seem like a harmless, cheerfully cutesie name for a new American ice-cream flavour, just adopted by the popular manufacturer Ben & Jerry's.
But some Irish-Americans have given the "Black and Tan" flavour a reception that is cold to the point of frigidity, complaining of its associations with one of the most notorious forces ever seen in Ireland.
Posted: Submitted by Seosamh on Thu, 2006-04-20 14:41.
Sex cues ruin men's decisiveness
Catching sight of a pretty woman really is enough to throw a man's decision-making skills into disarray, a study suggests.
The more testosterone he has, the stronger the effect, according to work by Belgian researchers.
Men about to play a financial game were shown images of sexy women or lingerie.
The Proceedings of the Royal Society B study found they were more likely to accept unfair offers than men not been exposed to the alluring images.
The suggestion is that the sexual cues distract the men's thoughts, preventing them from focusing on their task - particularly among those with high natural testosterone levels.
The University of Leuven researchers gave 176 heterosexual male student volunteers aged 18 to 28 financial games to test their fair play.
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