Jihad Unspun ask the question, could Nicholas Berg’s execution be fake? For those of you who have the watched the video [I recommend that you not watch it] a few doubts do spring to mind, still the tendency is still to believe it is real. Anyway JU offer a number of points for consideration.
Yes, once again it’s the time when the Eurovision Song Contest is beamed into homes all over Europe. If ever there was a night to go to the pub tonight is the night. Chris Doran is the man representing Ireland in Istanbul with “If My World Stopped Turning”, a song co-written by Bryan McFadden [Westlife [...]
I received [via email] a number of links to good articles by Davyth Hicks on the Eurolang website concerning some issues facing Europes minority tongues. David calls English “the worst killer language” due to the way it can take over from a persons natural language in areas such as business: “there are already researchers, civil [...]
The draw for the 2007 World Cup was made in Dublin yesterday and the groups have been announced. Ireland is set to do battle with the French in Pool D. Argentina will likely take the “Americas 1″ position making a very difficult group for Ireland. The French are currently ranked 4th in the world with [...]
Voting is coming to an end in India’s general election. I was just checking some of the stats about the election out of curiousity; there are 182 constituencies in 12 states with more than 200 million voters in this round voting from 218,000 polling stations. There are over 2,000 candidates vying for places in the [...]
Michael Noonan has hit out at the government and McDowell in particular over the ‘McCabe Killers affair’. Rumour has it the IRA killers of Garda Detective Jerry McCabe would be released under the terms of the GFA even though the government had sworn at the time of their conviction that they would serve their full [...]
Georgie arrives in Dublin on the 25th June, and protesters from the “Stop Bush campaign” and the “Irish Anti-War Movement” are planning a peaceful protest in Dublin on the 25th then the following morning in Clare. No doubt the water cannons will be out in force again!
More photos from The Memory Hole showing some of the American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The only photos of the Iraqis being abused by US personnel I had seen were on the news. Today I decided to drob by thememoryhole.org to check out the photos. They are pretty disgusting.
A brutally disappointing night for Finnish ice-hockey. Once again they let it slip through their fingers, this time losing out 5-4 in overtime to the Canadians. Canada advance, Suomi gets a Finnair flight home.