Sitting (and passing) Civil Service Exams
Two simple tips on sitting the Civil Service exams. 1) Turn up and keep turning up. This is the number one way to improve your chances of getting a job.
Folklore as Childcare Policy
One of the oldest and most pernicious myths about the Jewish people is that known as the Blood Libel. This is the belief, dated by some scholars back to the the 5th Century, that Jews were in the habit of kidnapping Christian children. The most common version alleged that the children were killed and their blood was used to thicken matzo balls for the passover meal.
Why JobBridge promotes unemployment
The JobBridge scheme has now been extended so that employers may have access to state-subsidised labour for up to 18 months. This extension makes plain what was only previously suggested- that the scheme is part of a wider, deliberate, effort to depress the economy. Internal Devaluation is the primary (possibly only) financial policy guiding the Irish State's actions.
More coverage of The Irish Times retraction
UPDATE: 5th September 2013From TheJournal. ie today, Minister for State Kathleen Lynch gave her reaction to the Irish Times' original decision to publish their story on the 23rd August. Members of the public have no standing to make complaint to the Press Ombudsman and/or the Press Council of Ireland if they think there has been a breach of the Code of Conduct which doesn't directly effect them.
The Irish Times, terminations and Holles Street: The story that wasn’t there.
On the 23rd August 2013, the Irish Times broke a story on Page One. It described a medical crisis in a woman's pregnancy which resulted in the termination of that pregnancy to save her life. It gave a lot more detail than I have given here.
Flying Ant Day 2013
Today is Flying Ant Day in Dublin 17. You can search in the box on the right for previous Flying Ant Days I've noticed.
The Paywall Problem
Another day, another step closer to the coming age of the newspaper paywall in Ireland. Here's PriceWaterhouseCoopers making self assured statements on the impending digital bonanza. As the money they can charge for ads (and the number of ads) sags the Irish newspapers have become addicted to talking about, and preparing for, the crock of gold that charging their readers seems to represent.
VoteTube Archive: Alfred Hitchcock presents… storyboards
Alfred Hitchcock found the actual business of filming tiresome. He thought of it as mere assembly work. That was because he’d done all the interesting pieces of film-making beforehand.
VoteTube Archive: Copyright on Oireachtas Footage
At the end of his scholarly piece on whether the Rules of the Houses of the Oireachtas applied to non-members, Fergal correctly pointed out that while the House rules trying to control how Oireachtas video was used might lack teeth, they did not deal with the question of copyright. The portion of the Copyright Act of 2000 which deals with copyright on proceedings in the Oireachtas is Section 7171.
VoteTube Archive: The Centre Cannot Hold
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,-The Second Coming, WB YeatsYeats could have been channelling the spirit of the modern political campaign manager. For nearly twenty years political parties and candidates have been successful in imposing previously undreamed controls on campaigns.
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