Category: Personal

  • Catching up

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    I’m back at my computer after an absence of just over two weeks – during that time I didn’t so much as touch a mouse or a keyboard! I didn’t miss it as much as I thought I would! Not impressed with my PowerBook though – the sound has failed on it and it appears…

  • I'm off!

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    I mentioned last week that I was taking a break starting this week – the break has started and I am now officially on my break. I won’t be near a computer again until August 31st so there won’t be any new posts here before then. I’m sorry to be away from the blog for…

  • Taking a break

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    In case I haven’t mentioned it already – I’m taking time away from the computer starting next week. I’ll be contactable by phone but not by email, blog comment, etc.

  • Where to eat in Glengarriff

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    If you find yourself in the beautiful West Cork town of Glengarriff and you are looking for somewhere to eat, I can heartily recommend you stay well away from Casey’s Hotel Glengarriff. I was there last weekend with my wife, my son and my wife’s nephew and we had lunch there – the food was…

  • New feed for this blog

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    In an attempt to see if anyone reads this blog (I have a sinking feeling that my 10 million daily page impressions come from my mother constantly pressing refresh on the computer in their place!), I have set up a new feed for this blog. If you are subscribed to this blog through an RSS…

  • The big beer ad

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    If you haven’t seen the Carlton big beer ad, check it out here – it made me laugh!

  • Risk Equalisation – BUPA Ireland wins round one

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    Tom Raftery
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    Risk equalisation, according to the Health insurance Authority, is a process that aims to equitably neutralise differences in insurers’ costs due to variations in the health status of their members. Risk equalisation results in cash transfers from insurers with lower risk members to insurers with higher risk members. In other words, under risk equalisation, BUPA…

  • Short term memory loss

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    Tom Raftery
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    My mother suffered an explosive brain aneurysm (aka brain haemorrhage) a couple of years ago. She survived (much to the surprise of the doctors) but she is not the woman she once was. On the night of her haemorrhage, several hours after the haemorrhage, I had a conversation with her which has stayed with me…