Emmet Oliver in The Irish Times reports that just 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, a group of scientists, businessmen and academics have set up the Republic’s first campaign group in favour of nuclear energy.
Nuclear power is against the law in Ireland, and they want to change that.
“The nuclear debate in Ireland [...]

Paul Brady wrote this song in 1985, and it has come back to haunt us.
They say the skies of Lebanon are burning
Those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat
They’re showing pictures on the television
Women and children dying in the street
Paul Brady: The Island Lyrics

I love the whole idea of electric cars. It makes so much sense. The Courreges Zooop EV is designed by two fashion designers, the famous husband and wife team of André and Coqueline Courrèges, and the thing is, it looks great, of course, but it also does 450k without a charge.
Check out the [...]

This is the 150th Anniversary of the birth of George Bernard Shaw.
See the Wikipedia entry on Shaw

This is one of my favourite daydreams, but I hadn’t thought of it as being anything to do with
obese pelicans or shape-shifting switchblades. Not much that’s new here, but a nice compilation of what is, what will be soon, and what may be, and most important, Ecogeek has the photos.
Ecogeek

Adam Boulton Weblog: Bush & Blair Raw & Uncut
Sorry, but I’m speechless too.

When… oh when… will they learn? What is it about politicians and technology? Even when experts line up to warn them about the pitfalls of biometrics or electronic voting machines, will they listen? In Ireland Minister Cullen has wasted close on €60 million so far on an electronic voting machines that the [...]

A new look for the site based on the Light CMS theme, which I’ve used before.
What prompted this was the realization that the blog was somewhat divorced from the main site, so now I’ve integrated the logo of the main site into the blog. I hope it’s not too intrusive. You can click on an [...]

…all of us have ancestors of every color and creed. Every Palestinian suicide bomber has Jews in his past. Every Sunni Muslim in Iraq is descended from at least one Shiite. And every Klansman’s family has African roots.
And vice versa.
In Ireland we could add that every Unionist is related to a Nationalist - and so [...]

The CIA is monitoring personal bank data of Irish citizens, according to the Irish Times. As Digital Rights Ireland points out, there is no legal basis for this information to be given to the US, no judicial authorisation, and no control over what use is made of the information. It’s not just [...]