Ever again buy petrol at a Shell Filling Station after their disgraceful treatment of the people of Rossport and their stealing of Ireland's natural resources.
Ever buy a copy of "The Sun", "The Star" or other "west-brit" media including "The Sunday World"and everything else published by sir (sic) Tony O'Reilly.
Ever again purchase a Kit Kat bar because the Nestle multinational company are pushing their manufactured powdered milk in India and developing countries and trying to get mothers to use their products instead of breastfeeding their babies.
* Support the Shell To Sea campaign
* Look up Nestle Boycott
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Sheer bloddy arrogance!
I listened to an Taoiseach Mr Ahern on the news defending his massive pay increase - 38,000 Euro to be exact. His tone was one of arrogance tinged with greed. Basically he was sticking his two fingers up at the people of Ireland. Here is the same corrupt "politician" who took massive sums of money from various "friends" in the nineties. Because he was found out he is now effectively giving himself and his cronies millions from the public purse - from our taxes in other words. This kind of daylight robbery happens in other countries of course, mostly in Africa and South America in countries run by juntas and Dictators.
Ahern is now one of the highest paid "politicians" in the world, he is paid more than Bush and Gordon Brown. But sure what is 310,000 Euros?
Meanwhile, the health service is in disarray and people are dying because of the cutbacks imposed by Ahern and Mary Harney - probably the worst Minister of Health in the history of the State.
What a crowd of wasters!
Ahern is now one of the highest paid "politicians" in the world, he is paid more than Bush and Gordon Brown. But sure what is 310,000 Euros?
Meanwhile, the health service is in disarray and people are dying because of the cutbacks imposed by Ahern and Mary Harney - probably the worst Minister of Health in the history of the State.
What a crowd of wasters!
Friday, October 19, 2007
On Raglan Road - by Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,'Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day.'
On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day."
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way.
And I said,'Let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day.'
On Grafton Street in November, we
Tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion play.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay;
Oh, I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret signs,
That's known to the artists who have known
The true gods of sound and stone.
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
And away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day."
Why Me?
Why is it that the person in front of me in the Bank queue is the person with loose change that has to be counted, is looking for information on credit cards, hasn't got their account number to hand, wants to set up a direct debit....
I just ran in for 2 minutes, am parked on double yellow lines - and just want to lodge cash in my account. There is only ONE teller working, the other 3 are talking/ shuffling paper/looking blankly at their computer screens/counting money. (Banks hate customers)
And now "person with loose change" is talking about their holiday in Turkey with the teller!
Help!!!
I just ran in for 2 minutes, am parked on double yellow lines - and just want to lodge cash in my account. There is only ONE teller working, the other 3 are talking/ shuffling paper/looking blankly at their computer screens/counting money. (Banks hate customers)
And now "person with loose change" is talking about their holiday in Turkey with the teller!
Help!!!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Shooting Fish in a Barrel
It's also called "nothing to do and all day to do it". The M7/Naas Road out of Dublin is a new 3 lane dual-carriageway from Newlands Cross to Naas. It is probably the busiest road in Ireland - and probably the safest! The speed limit on this road is 100 Km per hour. When you reach the Naas byepass and from there on it is a 2 lane dual-carriageway, but the speed limit increases to 120 Km per hour, because it is classed as a Motorway.
The first piece of the M7 to Naas is without a doubt the best and safest part but with the lowest speed limit. Almost EVERY driver goes over the legal limit of 100 Km because it is perfectly safe to do so and there are few accidents on this stretch of road.
Our beloved Garda Traffic Corps have other ideas though and constantly sit along this road with their speed cameras. Why? Because it's easy to catch people here. It has Nothing whatsoever to do with road-safety and everything to do with boosting the figures that Garda bosses can boast about. More importantly it is to do with MONEY. It is in fact a revenue collection exercise on behalf of the Minister of Finance and our corrupt Taoiseach. The Gardai are being used - the same way that the police and army are used by corrupt Dictators in Third World banana-republics.
p.s. *The above mentioned Finance Minister lives in County Offaly and uses this road. Does he stick to the speed-limit in his top of the range Ministerial Garda driven car?
** Look out for the speed camera at Exit 6 on the Naas Road. Not at the official ramp where the Garda car is supposed to park but sneakily just after you pass under the bridge where there is a road exit - where I would have thought it is a dangerous place to park!
The first piece of the M7 to Naas is without a doubt the best and safest part but with the lowest speed limit. Almost EVERY driver goes over the legal limit of 100 Km because it is perfectly safe to do so and there are few accidents on this stretch of road.
Our beloved Garda Traffic Corps have other ideas though and constantly sit along this road with their speed cameras. Why? Because it's easy to catch people here. It has Nothing whatsoever to do with road-safety and everything to do with boosting the figures that Garda bosses can boast about. More importantly it is to do with MONEY. It is in fact a revenue collection exercise on behalf of the Minister of Finance and our corrupt Taoiseach. The Gardai are being used - the same way that the police and army are used by corrupt Dictators in Third World banana-republics.
p.s. *The above mentioned Finance Minister lives in County Offaly and uses this road. Does he stick to the speed-limit in his top of the range Ministerial Garda driven car?
** Look out for the speed camera at Exit 6 on the Naas Road. Not at the official ramp where the Garda car is supposed to park but sneakily just after you pass under the bridge where there is a road exit - where I would have thought it is a dangerous place to park!
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