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rte
rté takes its first tentative steps into podcasting. im spending a lot of time these days listening to irish radio – morning ireland from 9 till 11, then gerry ryan for an hour, then switch between pat kenny and gerry for the next two hours. once 2pm comes i switch off.
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top 20
i was watching the top 20 childrens tv shows from ireland last night. a wave of memories came over me. happy days. (click on the image above and it takes you to flickr where i have a much larger version of the image with notes).
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poles
a really nice article about a new bus route that goes between busáras in dublin and warsaw in poland was in saturdays irish times. apparently 40,000 or so polish people live in ireland!. here is an extract from the article. all aboard for warsaw bus éireann has begun a daily dublin-warsaw route to cater to […]
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waiting
some pictures of when i was (proper home) home a few weeks ago here: 2005.05 limerick. the picture above is of some people waiting with my good self and several dozen others at limerick junction train station, which isnt in limerick at all, but in county tipperary. when i was younger i heard that it […]
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suburbs
there is an area north of dublin city called ballymun. its just south of the airport, so it was easily visible from large parts of the city. it was built back in it mid 1960s to counteract the tenements that were (and to a lesser extant still are) in a large part of dublins city […]