The film Ronin had some really good car chases.

I know what that's like. Local businesses near me are daft. Antiquated processes and will almost ask where are you from. I don't want to mention the business or it's type but I had a two month long saga with a local business. I ordered online for pick up, it was I stock and I was to pick it up when ...

ESB Group posted a profit of 390M after tax.
That's triple on last year according to the Journo:

https://www.thejournal.ie/esb-group-aft ... 2-Sep2022/

At this stage, I'd vote for anyone who puts the people first.

If the country votes for someone, and they rise to power, that's democracy in action, but there are countries not a million (or even one hundred) miles from Ireland where the majority of the electorate don't vote for a particular party, but that party repeatedly clings on to power to the detriment ...

I hope the time-wasting penalties are something that will applied to all matches going forward.

Best RC I watched in a while i.e. its keeping my attention.

So if a country votes for someone the EU doesn't like, it's not a democracy.
I find it very hard to take seriously any moral instruction from any European country.

I always wonder how people get all the time off to attend all these protests.
Anyway, regarding these type of groups - let them eat themselves and each other. It is the way of things.

The Swedish General Elections started earlier this week. The centre-left PM Magdalena Andersson has conceded victory and resigned. She headed up a coalition of Left Party, Greens, Centrists, and Social Democrats. The victorious alliance is made up of the Liberals, Christian Dems, Moderate Party and ...

Catch 22 by whatever the ballbag was who wrote it. It reads like a bad vaudeville gag. Same gag, same perspective, same style, same monotony. Over and over again. Probably the only book I threw away. I put it in the recycling bin with hopes it with get made into something useful. Toilet paper perhaps.

I was stuck behind a small hedgecutter machine on the way to work. He couldn't really do anything because a cyclist was on the right hand side of the lane, blocking the road. Meanwhile a ballbag in white VW decides he is too important to wait; overtakes me at speed only to jam on his brakes and get ...

La Marseillaise has been stuck in my head for the last two weeks.
It may be a sign

I read 12 Rules for Life. It was ok. Some good stuff and some waffle. I think it could be of benefit to certain folk. I don't mind the man himself. I don't think he's a bad cat and I like that he offers a different, mostly measured, perspective. However, at times, willfully or no, he can come across...

I remember, years ago when I worked maintenance in a large med-tech facility. Our dept. worked to schedules for the most part. The work was prioritized according to urgency, importance etc. One particular week we were rushing to get a new clean-room up and running. We ore or less did it on out own w...

My WTF moment of the day is just the complete state of our country. Its everything - incompetence everywhere. The complete lack of any joined up thinking, planning or any semblance of project management. I think what set me off is Eamon Ryan announcing the The North Seas Energy Cooperation group and...

I think there should be a probationary period in which weed is allowed to be sold by specific regulated vendors. For now, we'll ignore the fact that this will inevitably be a quango-type enterprise. During the probationary period: Gardai, health professionals, government types etc; can monitor the v...

Their behavior screams of moralistic self-righteousness. I not really concerned about their beliefs, there are plenty non-religious people equally as sententious. They have absolutely no problem with having a go at anyone for perceived slights. They all live in an ego bubble and they get a brain-wro...

Thanks Del.Monte and gugleguy.

I used to buy a paper everyday, sometimes two.
I had a few online subscriptions over the years, newspapers and news magazines mostly.

I don't buy any papers or subscriptions anymore.

Im not paying to be an captive audience member for whatever fashionable agenda is being sold.