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Secret diary of Rody Molloy
Monday Headed off to Croke Park at lunchtime for the Employment Fair just to show my face. The place is crawling with media and stinks of Lynx. My sinuses are playing up really badly. Left at about 2.30 and headed home for a bit of a lie down. Im entitled to that much I think. If Im not firing on al ...
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Reeling in the years - Tayto style
Yes kids, there was a time when stuff was priced in single digits. Nowadays you couldnt buy much for 3p. Maybe half a pear drop from the Sweet Factory or something? I actually remember buying crisps for 5p, 7p and then it hit the psychological barrier of 10p. I swore if crisps hit 10p Id give them ...
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13 is an unlucky number for a Christkindl
The date to sign up to the Irish Bloggers Christkindl has been extended to 7th December. I had an idea to contact online stores in Ireland and see if they would offer a discount code for anyone taking part in this. With more participants I could fire off the emails and make it worth their while to s ...
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Back of fag box book review - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The P.T. Barnum of Social Science gives his insight into why some people rise above the norm and become really successful. He challenges the conventional wisdom that it is all about innate ability. There is nothing new in anything he writes about in this book, espec ...
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No credit card charges with Ryanair
Bargains Ireland looks to have found a way to bypass the credit card charges when booking a Ryanair Flight. This will save anyone booking multiple flights a lot of money. And we all like that. h/t Irish Internet Entrepreneur
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The Mary Harney Hairdo
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You might be a poet, and not even know it
I love this idea. Its called Tiny Poet and they are: Photos, of poems, written on post-it notes - posted daily (mon - fri) So simple and compelling like all good ideas. This idea comes from Sinead Cochrane and I will definitely have to put get working on a submission or two. My last expedition in ...
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Hug a redhead
I read about the Kick a ginger day and thought its a good job this didnt happen over here. Otherwise there would be a lot of bruised kids going around. With approximately 10% of the Irish population having red hair it wouldnt take long before some gombeen child kicked another because they saw it o ...
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Dublin City Council Grinches
[Above: How the next edition of the Dublin City Council Newsletter wont look] This just beggars belief. As reported in the Irish Times, Dublin City Council is investigating Brown Thomas on Grafton Street for noise pollution. From the photo in the paper, they have a lovely Christmas display up in th ...
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Christmas in Wicklow
Wicklow Tourism have done a fine job putting together lots of information on things to do in County Wicklow coming up to Christmas. The special section of the website has details on accomodation offers, free activities, tours, shopping and special festive markets. Not only that, but there is a fab w ...
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Irish Bloggers Christkindl
Had this crazy notion on the way home on Friday. There was a bit of twitter chatter about Santa hats and what not. So I thought how about an Irish Bloggers Christkindl? I wondered how it would work in practice, and then by chance a tweet by enormous pointed me to Elfster which automates the whole pr ...
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Lidl and Aldi Google Insights
Trying out Google Insight this evening and did a search on Lidl and Aldi. As already ready reported widely, both retailers have seen an increase in custom as people seek out better deals. Just interesting to see it reflected in Google searches as well. Look how far they have come since 2004 and how ...
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And the winner of the 2 Tickets to Top Gear Live is
Jo Winters who visited lecraic.com last week after doing a search for a review of Dave Gorman’s book “America Unchained”. Jo says she is the world’s biggest fan of Top Gear and can’t wait to head to Dublin for a big day out on Sunday 30th. The What Would ...
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Bus Eireann bus breakdown
Righto. Ireland is now officially cranksville. Everyone seems to be pissed off about something. Berties gormless (but strangely reassuring) grin and his Hows the hard workin men quips are gone. Hes been been replaced by a thick lipped bogtrotter with about as much charisma as a lump of lard. T ...
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Irish Navy Ship renamed Betsy
From the Irish Mirror yesterday comes the news that 31 year old Robert OBrien is the first woman to command an Irish naval ship. She took charge of the LE Aisling after a ceremony in Galway. There is no truth in the rumours that Naval officers were seen eyeing up pink paint in Woodies for a spot of ...
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Apprentice bits ahead of Week 9
The last 8 weeks have all gone by in such a blur. Everyone has their favourite to win at this stage. I don’t have a favourite per se, but if a gun was put to my head and I had to pick a winner I’d say Brenda. That’s who I would employ anyway. She’s a level head ...
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Irish Apprentice Watch - Week 8 - The one with the finger painting
Irish Apprentice Week 8 With apologies to Ian for taking so long to get this online. I am a bad boy. Review by Ian Walsh This weeks show was always going to be the anti-climax after Joannas demise last week. None of her fellow candidates missed her as they all raised their champagne glasses a ...
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Back of fag box book review - America Unchained by Dave Gorman
America Unchained by Dave Gorman Is it possible to travel coast to coast in the USA whilst avoiding chain hotels, petrol stations and restaurants? Dave Gorman has a dream that Independent America still exists and thrives amidst all the ubiquity of the franchise - The Man, as he calls it. And so ...
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OConnell Street Christmas tree - Merde actually
Ive been passing by the construction of the Christmas decoration on OConnell Street over the last week. I twittered that I wasnt convinced about it. The above photograph shows it pretty much completed and Im even less convinced now. It was designed by a French company that created the lighting f ...
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Apprentice bits ahead of Week 8
This weeks live blog of the Apprentice takes place at Darrens with kick off just before the show starts. Im not going to see it or the show tomorrow night unfortunately, but the live blogs are always good craic. The reactions to Joannas departure from the Apprentice on Monday have divided people ...
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