Tom Raftery has an interesting post about Remarkable Customer Service.
I could rave all day about the remarkable service from my host letshost.ie.
Always patient, interested and understanding beyond the call of duty, the guys get the problem solved with utmost courtesy.
Plus of course the sheer value of their single package. No irritating ‘home’ packages [...]

If, according to Teilhard de Chardin, love is the “most universal, the most
tremendous, the most mysterious of the cosmic forces”, why on earth is it so difficult?
Throughout the ages poets and mystics, spiritual leaders and philosophers have sought to understand love and see how it connects to human freedom, peace, joy, suffering, [...]

I was so preoccupied with getting my appreciation of Jim Greeley online (see previous entry), I forgot to link to Morag Prunty’s beautiful trubute in The Sunday Tribune. I don’t have permission to reproduce it here, but if you are one of Jim’s family or his legion of friends, you might think it worth [...]

Jim in mid-Seventies, courtesy Paddy Doyle

Perhaps the best legacy of all is laughter. When Jim Greeley died suddenly, having just turned 53, his partner, his family and huge circle of friends were devastated. Yet when they came together to console each other, within minutes, memories of Jim released serial, healing [...]

A life-long friend of mine died suddenly early yesterday morning, collapsing on a street in Dublin near his place of work.
Obviously it is a great shock, but his many friends have gathered round to talk about him, celebrate his life and his gift of making us laugh - among his many qualities. That, [...]

I’ve come to realise that people I actually know, ie friends and acquaintances, read this blog and some have strong opinions, for and against.
If you have a strong opinion about something written here, please say so in the comments. Even if you’ve vehemently the opposite opinion to what I express here, say so. If you’re [...]

Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with Mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism.
Needless to say, the locals were not pleased. (short video)

There were nasty scenes in North Mayo early this morning, when the Gardaí (Irish Police) baton-charged local residents and supporters when they tried to block a convoy of Shell construction workers building a gas pipeline near their homes.
It seems extraordinary that the Irish police would baton-charge its own people to allow a multinational company [...]

There’s a superb time-lapse video of the demolition of the Ballymun flats over on the Dublin Community blog

The Glen Dimplex New Writer Awards are for the best book published in the last year in Ireland and the United Kingdom by a first-time author. Each category winner receives €5,000.
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a native of Co Waterford who lives in Bucharest, won the fiction award for his short story collection Notes From a [...]