Good news in the fight for child protection in Ireland. Staff numbers at the garda Central Vetting Unit for potential childcare workers are to be more than doubled which “will enable the garda vetting services to be extended to all people working with children and vulnerable adults”.
Came across this piece on war between RTÉ, TV3 and Sky News Ireland. Quite funny, worth a read.
The CBS TV network has been fined an astonishing $550,000 for Janet Jacksons quick flash at the super bowl. The FCC fined 20 CBS-owned TV stations the maximum penalty for indecency – $27,500 each. It’s gas that a tiny flash of tit can create so much fuss, and considering the size of the porn industry [...]
As we speak a team is putting together an Irish translation of the user interface for Mozilla Firefox. The translation team are getting very close to unleashing their first version, hopefully within the next 3-4 weeks there will be a version available for download. Of course i’ll post a link when that time comes. In [...]
In just under 100 hours Mozilla have achieved their target of 1 million downloads of the Firefox browser. They had set a deadline of 10 days in their ‘match to 1 million campaign’ so to achieve it with 6 days to go was amazing. Next target 2 million!
Oh you know this already but I just want to push it home, Europe walloped the American team 18½-9½ in the Ryder Cup.
This is a heart felt appeal to the members of Kerry Co. Council. Please do not support the motion to nominate Dana Rosemary Scallon for the presidency! [Update] I see she’s also seeking nominations in Longford!
Cá bhfuil an suíomh idirlíon Raidió na Gaeltachta www.rnag.ie? Níl ann ach suíomh ón RTÉ [www.rte.ie/rnag] anois ach nach raibh suíomh eile de RnaG? Cad atá an scéal?
Five EU countries have launched a new European Police Force called The European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) which will be based in Vicenza, Italy.
It’s always very sad to hear stories like this one of a mother and daughter who died after their car plunged into a river near Bantry. Hard to imagine what it must be like when your two kids are facing such danger.