Don’t know about you but I found this particualrly sick. And they call this art? Art my hole! The artist, an Israeli, defends his art saying it had a message of openesness and conciliation. “free speech and free artistic expression” hmmm…

You probably know about the bomb hoax on the Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta from Frankfurt..those poor feckers first a bomb hoax..then to have to stay over in Shannon…evil terrorists!

It’s so easy to get utterly sick of the situation in the North of Ireland. Dropping by once again to my primary source of information on Northern Ireland we find many intelligent and knowledgable people resorting to the usual routine of blaming the other side and turning a blind eye to what their own side [...]

I received this request (in Irish and English) to send a letter to the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, asking to have Irish be made one of the 20 Official languages of the EU which it is currently expected to not be (forgive me if this was posted before, and I missed it): “A Chara, Ni fada [...]

69038 signatures so far for the petition to make Irish an Official EU language!! That’s not bad I reckon consider it’s not really an “official petition” or anything but was actually started by a Finnish Gaeilgeorí. Keep ‘em coming, a few more thousand wouldn’t hurt!! http://www.petitiononline.com/gaedhilg/petition.html

Excellent short piece of work here on Bilingualism, i haven’t read it in depth but at first glance it looks really good. It not only explains what bilingualism is but also gives good information on strategies for introducing a second language to a child. Those of you with kids may know this but the context [...]

Thanks to David Gough for posting the following article on Slugger yesterday. It’s an article from the Daily Telegraph on languages, or rather the disappearance of languages over the coming hundred years. It’s work a read (article enclosed in the extended section)

Ok this is nothing new and the article certainly is out of date but Zeldman makes interesting reading. “Garbage in, garbage out…”

The Saville Inquiry is still ongoing of course, just in case yer forgettin it. According to UTV it will have cost over GB£155 million and will have interviewed more than 900 witnesses! Savage! With 40 or so witnesses left it won’t be too long before we get the report. The results will hardly be too [...]

Paisley has to be one of the most whinging people in Northern Ireland. The fucker is never happy, he has to be complaining about something and it this case it’s about playing rugby on a sunday!! I mean, what the fuck is his problem that he has to complain about the smallest little things?? Just [...]