Flying Ant Day 2025
This year, flying ant day in Dublin 17 is on the 8th July 2025. I have been recording when I notice a Flying Ant Day for about 20 years now. I just jot it down here on the old blog.
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Mother and Baby Home Commission records: An EU Law Perspective
It is critical that the state does not compound an administrative error being made by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters, in failing to take account of its duties under the Charter of Fundamental Rights and GDPR to set aside any national provision which would conflict with the rights of access and other data protection rights.
Flying Ant Day 2020
It's flying Ant day.
Why the BAI is not the body to regulate the internet
The Sunday Independent had an eyecatching report this weekend. Headlined "First social media controls revealed: Irish watchdog to police content across EU" it sets out the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland's proposals to Government as to how the the AV Services Directive should be transposed into Irish law.
From PIAB To InjuriesBoard to PIAB again
The Personal Injuries Assessment Board, or PIAB, was created by statute in 2003. It was set up as an institution to deal with injured people's claims- back injuries, falling over on a banana skin in the supermarket, you name it.
Blue Peter: England’s dream of childhood
It is the 60th anniversary of Blue Peter. Described airily as a “magazine show” to those unfamiliar with its sui generis format, Blue Peter has sat in the BBC schedule as unwaveringly as the 9 O’Clock News for a televisual eon.
Trump v Nixon: Disapproval rating
Donald Trump has been President of the US for just over a fortnight now. Gallup, the polling people, have been tracking his approval and disapproval ratings daily. Today, his disapproval rating hit a new high of 53% of all US adults.
The Dublin InQuirer- A City Desk for Dublin
I only recently became aware of The Dublin InQuirer and have become facinated by it. It started as a website and then, to fend off financial instablity, began offering a monthly print newspaper on a subscription and (limited) retail basis.
What really makes a civil servant quit?
Between 1996 and 1999 the rate of resignations from the civil service rose by 34%. The civil service had been under resourced and demotivated, while subject to an embargo on hiring staff. Staff careers and earnings had stagnated.
The PODcast: An interview giving the story so far
The benighted story of the Department of Education's perennially unraveling Primary Online Database of 5+year olds has been bouncing along for over a year now. If you were to scroll through a year's worth of this blog's posts you'd have a pretty good picture of what happened when, but you might also expire with tedium. It'd be a race to see which would happen first.
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