Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
All Our Hard Work!…
Here’s a picture from earlier this morning, featuring Yi Bao (UCD Quinn School), Hui Zhang (UCD Chinese Students & Scholars Association), Carl Lusby (UCD International Students’ student advisor), and myself (me) with a cheque for ten grand for the Chinese Earthquake appeal, which we handed over to the Red Cross in the past hour. Fundraising [...]
No Comments » - Posted in charity by Ciara
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Sign of the times!
I never thought a press release from a Bookie would interest me but there you go! Check this out…
‘With the Championship season starting to heat up, Boylesports, Ireland’s independent bookmaker, has produced a GAA Ethnic Dictionary which translates a host of popular GAA specific terms and words into both Polish and Chinese. According to Irish [...]
No Comments » - Posted in gaa, sports by Ciara
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Kilkenny - where the wind comes sweeping down the plain…
…and where Hollywood actors come to see the odd musical.
Very proud of elder sister Nicola of late. A teacher (Gaeilge and Geography) in the Cistercian in Roscrea - former secondary school of the Tea-Shock - she has the most wonderful melodic voice, without doubt the only Brennan with the entertainment gene. She moved back home [...]
No Comments » - Posted in family, music by Ciara
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
EU Commission deems FIFA’s Player Quotas illegal
News from BreakingNews.ie - this morning FIFA’s plans to curb the international premium of the world’s major soccer leagues bit the dust with the stark - and unprovoked - statement that the proposed ‘Six and Five Rule’, where six of any team’s eleven players must be from the club’s home country, would be in blatant [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in soccer, sports by Gav
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
She couldn’t satisfy her husband…
…one just to annoy the Reilly.
1 Comment » - Posted in politics by Ciara
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Working my *actual* abs
News! That’s me, and now Reilly, with respective McJobs secured to tie us over financially till academia takes over yet again. I’ll be in Croker for the Summer, spearheading a new Stadium initiative in the Premium section, and Herr Reilly will be putting his A&E brief from this year to good use, with an internship [...]
No Comments » - Posted in fitness, the working world by Ciara
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Bench-pressing my blogging abs
Back in the game!
It’s been too long, dear readers/stalkers from Bebo/Scally! One shouldn’t be excused for abandoning you during such stuffy times as exam season, but I’ll try to redeem your faith in me. Reilly and I have been getting our stress on in a big way (more anon) and blogging was impractial, nay [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Study, all about us, out and about by Ciara
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Finian McGrath’s challenge to the Lisbon Referendum
I’m just back from a day-jaunt home, and on the bus this morning I was eavesdropping the driver’s radio tuned to Radio 1 where Playback was gathering pace, and featuring Finian McGrath’s interview on Wednesday’s Drivetime.
To summarise it briefly, McGrath, an independent TD who supports the coalition government, believes that Irish accession to the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Lisbon Treaty, politics by Gav
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Even Google wouldn’t vote Dustin…
This morning’s big search:
No Comments » - Posted in Eurovision, internet by Gav
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
21 reviewed
On our Saturday night in Slovakia we decided to take a spin into the next town and see whatever films we could find in English.
We ended up plumping for 21: a film that would be difficult to classify into a single particular genre. Starring Jim Sturgess and Kevin Spacey, it’s about geeky student Ben Campbell [...]
