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The criticism must be getting to them because the GAA are going to modify the experimental sin-bin rule. Sean Kelly is expected to announce today that players who get sent to the sin-bin can be replaced by a substitute whereas before no substitute was allowed and the teams had to play on without the sin-binned player. I dunno, personally I think they did it right first time and perhaps a better compromise might have been to reduce the sin-bin time to 5 minutes instead of 10.
Update: Sin-bin rule scrapped.

Eamon O’Cuiv has approved the hiring of three Irish-speaking language therapists for the Gaeltacht regions. One of the serious problems for the Irish language community is lack of support services in Irish, so this small step should be welcome news.

The military geek in me can’t help but say “coooooool!” The US military are deploying 18 “robots” in Iraq. The robots are basically the same as the type of tracked robot used for bomb disposal but armed with machine guns! The robot, equipped with four cameras, night-vision and zoom lenses, is currently guided by a computer and joystick but they have plans to ue a gameboy type controller with a VR hemlet. Cool!
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Good report from WebSideStory via CNET on the growing market share of Firefox. “From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers … used the Mozilla Foundation’s FireFox browser, a gain of 0.88 percentage points. At the same time, IE usage declined 0.7 percent to 92.7 percent…”

Been in the news since yesterday. The White House has confirmed that its search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had ended without finding anything. They searched for two years at a cost of millions and still came up empty handed. Shit lads, all you had to do was ask anyone and they’d have told you you’d find nothing. Gobshites.

Jeez, you’d think they’d be glad of the help but the feckin Indonesian Government is trying to make life difficult for people helping with the aid efforts in the tsunami hit region. Not only must aid workers register to travel outside of the towns (supposedly for safety) but now they have set a deadline for foreign troops to leave the country.

British TV reporter Martin Bashir is to testify for the prosecution at the Jackson trial. You may know Bashir from the documentary he made about Jackson a year or two back. I don’t think much of Jackson at all but felt sorry for him when I saw the documentary. New York based Bashir (Britains own Michael Moore) made the documentary to take down Jackson, he had no intention of reporting the facts, he clearly had made up his mind about Jackson beforehand and presented little more than his own conclusions, in my own humble opinion. That said, Jackson is away with the fairies…

According to the Indo (I don’t know why I read it either) Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair is on the run [registration cheat] from his UDA buddies. The Finnish will know the man as “Hullu Koira” (mad dog) because he visited Finland not so long ago. During one of his excursions abroad a couple of years ago while running from the UDA he snook into Finland only to have his face plastered over the Finnish papers. (the feckers said he was a Catholic terrorist). I wonder will he come back for a spot of skiing or run to warmer climes…

The title caught my attention on this one, a humorous look at a very serious subject. Nathan Abrams discovered he had testicular cancer and decided to write a diary recording his thoughts during his ordeal. Well worth a read.

The IRA have released photos of decommissioned arms….
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