Author Archives: Donncha

Sorry for the lack of updates. …

Sorry for the lack of updates. I’m writing from a web-cafe in lovely Galway! We started with a night in Inish Mor, night in the local “night club” and a 10 mile bike ride up to Dun Aonghus. We’re sun burned! Who’s believe it? Ireland in September and we’re sunburned! hehe.
Lots of pics to post, Dun Aongus lies at the top of 87m cliffs facing the Atlantic, being up there reminded me of Bungy Jumping, but the pics were worth it!

Galway is great, def. worth a visit, wait ’till you see pics of the penthouse apartment we got! Woo!!

More updates at the weekend, we’re off to dinner in a while, the pub after, and then back to Kilkenny tomorrow!

Interesting day today. I'm of …

Interesting day today. I’m off work for a few days so I cycled around Blackrock with my camera.
Down in the Line I had the camera set up to snap two of the bridges that span that old railway line when two lads came down the path on their bikes. I asked them to pose for a photo while cycling, which they declined to do at first but later they came back and I snapped a pic of them (link later). I told them it was for a website and they went off. They came back shortly and asked how they could see the photo, so I tried to tell them about photosig, but rememebered that you need to become a member there to do most things, so..

“D’you know Google.com?”
“Yeah, we go there in school.”
“Right, do a search for my name, donncha, that’s d-o-n-n-c-h-a, my homepage is the second link, I’ll post a link there.”

With that, they went off.
Google just found another function: It’s now a means for total strangers to pass on complex information without resorting to pen and paper.

Search for this and you’ll find me.

I couldn't have a job because …

I couldn’t have a job because that would stop my grant. So in one breath, a recent college graduate took up position in the dole queue, right behind another family member who confidently led the way to another generation of State support.
There are pros and cons to a welfare state. I’m in favour of it, as are practically all European countries. A lot of the time it doesn’t work properly though. PRSI and dentists, going back to college, child care, disabled help/care.. These are just some of the issues I’ve come across in the last 2 months, in my own life and in the media.

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