Posted February 17, 2009 
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The Irish Blog Awards are on this coming weekend in Cork (de real capital of oirland boye).
Some of my frequent complainers visitors have been shortlisted.
(God help us from enlarged egos but that’s the risk of having the awards.)
I see a vintage member of my harem (Grannymar) has been shortlisted in the Best Personal Blog category.
Posted February 17, 2009 Comments(0) 
I’m back from the brink. And in striking form!
The Education Minister Batt O’ Keeffe says it would be regrettable to see teachers taking to the streets to protest the Government’s public sector pension levy.
Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s comments follow Friday’s announcement from the three main teachers’ unions that they will be balloting their members on industrial action.
Union representatives have also urged their members to attend an ICTU protest rally which is taking place in Dublin on Saturday.
Minister O’ Keeffe is appealing to teachers to remember that the country is in a difficult and fraught financial state.
If balloted I will be prepared to go on the picket line.
The fat cats at the top, the bankers, the developers, the speculators and their equals creamed it during the Celtic Tiger years.
Posted February 12, 2009 Comments(0) 
Hugh Leonard, playright and journalist, died today at the age 83.
He wrote a play called ‘Da‘ which was performed 697 times on Broadway.
I met the man many years ago at a Murder Mystery Weekend in The Park Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry.
He had penned the weekend of murder, mystery and intrigue.
I have a photo of myself and himself at the event.
A rare claim to fame.
I liked the man.
Rest In Peace Hugh.
Posted February 12, 2009 Comments(0) In a train compartment, there are 3 men and a ravishing young girl. The four passengers join in conversation, which very soon turns to the erotic.
Then, the young girl proposes, “If each of you will give me €1.00, I will show you my legs.”
The men, charmed by this young girl, all give her a euro.
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Posted February 11, 2009 Comments(0) The Department of Education has confirmed plans to cut special teacher support for around 900 primary school children with learning disabilities.
One hundred and twenty-eight teaching posts are being cut, affected 119 schools around the country, most of them in disadvantaged areas.
The department says the decision has been taken because the schools do not meet the minimum requirement of nine pupils with mild learning disabilities.
Posted February 10, 2009 Comments(0) Yesterday saw the D.E.S. publishing Circular 0002/2009 on its website.
It details:
You can see the details here.
Posted February 9, 2009 Comments(0) 
Dorothy is very upset as her husband Albert had just passed away. She goes to the mortuary to look at her dearly departed & the instant she sees him she starts wailing & crying.
One of the attendants rushes up to comfort her. Through her tears she explains that she was upset because Albert was wearing a black suit and that it was his dying wish to be buried in a blue suit.
