Tag: Personal

Piaras Kelly has a post on his blog about multi-culturism in Ireland and he raises some interesting issues. He references a situation which hit the headlines here recently when children of non-Catholic parents were unable to access school places for their children. I was appalled last week to read the comments of Anne McDonagh, director…

As the post title says, Congrats to Bernie and Ruth who got married yesterday – well done guys. Thanks to Damien too for the tip-off!

I don’t normally do this kind of thing but I am making an exception in this case. My brother-in-law has recently started looking for a new job. He’s an extremely high-powered telecoms guy, currently based in the US. From his cv, his career highlights include: Management of telecom technology development, deployment and operations teams with…

My older boy Tomás is starting school today. He has been looking forward to it all summer. I’m proud and happy and sad all at the same time. My little boy is growing up.

My dad needs a printer for his computer and I have no idea what to tell him to get! His needs are very basic – he will only be printing out the odd web page and email. No photo quality needed. No scanner needed. A simple printer which won’t burn a hole in his pocket…

Well, I am back after the break in the sun. Had a great break. Offline most of the time but couldn’t resist the odd bit of browsing from my phone!!! It was a bit of a shock to the system to be in Ronda, in temperatures of 46C (115F) on Saturday and then land in…

I’m off on a three week house-swap holiday tomorrow morning bright and early with the family (if I remember to bring the right passports this time!). In my absence I have asked good friend FrankP to look after the blog for me (to free up comments which have ended up moderated or in the Akismet…