Dave’s Rants

I’m a big proponent of nuclear power and always point out to people that due to the interconnector between Ireland and Britain we already use nuclear power. So it was facinating to hear Eamonn Ryan talking about his denial of a uranium mining licence as this would be ‘hypocritical’.
Surely actually using nuclear energy is far […]

You get this screen when you make a query/complaint on the BT Ireland website. Looks like you’re all done right, nope, you’ve got to click that button at the bottom to actually submit the query. The submit on the previous screen dones nothing except bring you to this screen!

After what I thought was a clever ‘Paisean Faisean’ advert was banned by the ASAI I started paying more attention to their complaints bulletin. I noticed a pattern where anything remotely sexualising women was getting banned and to be honest I just thought it hysterical.
So when Aero launched their ‘Bubbles’ ad campaign I decided to […]

So I was driving home on Wednesday evening having seen the blood on the ISEQ after Bank of Ireland released their results and someone from Davy’s Stockbrokers was on the radio recommending that everyone pile into the banking shares because they are such a good buy. Now this may be true, I for the record […]

This is from the Audi website, looks like the Government here are going to have to start reclassifying what broadband is because other countries are moving so far ahead that sub 4 Mbps isn’t satisfactory anymore.

I loved this story Damien linked me to the other day. I was hoping it would get wider coverage so I was happy when I saw it in the Daily Mail today, which is great. Unfortunately as usual with any story taken from a blog they didn’t bother to credit the source. Pathetic…

All Games:
All games will be on Setanta and ITV. ITV will broadcast some games on ITV 1 and others on ITV 4. ITV is available on many platforms in Ireland. If you have Sky Digital, here are the instructions for adding ITV 1 and ITV 4 to your channel list
Ireland Games, Knock Out Rounds:
All […]

It’s rare I bother writing to the editor but poor research always irks me. Had the author of the Independent piece that Sarah pointed out bothered to research the issue he’d have found the obvious reason why the number of atheists in Ireland appears to be so small. So in case the paper doesn’t print […]