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A 26 year old Irish man living in Warsaw blabbering on about social justice, current affairs, jam sandwiches, Polish and Irish news, Iraq war, cat food, etc.
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Floods in Banagher, Ireland
We live 11 floors up in Warsaw so there's no chance we'll ever get flooded like many unfortunate people in Ireland have recently. Record levels of rainfall have fallen and though the waters have been receding a bit over the past few days there's boun...
Ireland's Recession Hits Pubs
TuesdayLad goes into a bar, says: "Any chance of a pint?"Barman: "Sure, that's what I'm here for."Customer in raggy trousers, unshaven face: "Just one problem, I've got no money."Barman, already pulling the pint: "That's no problem, I'll give you a g...
Ireland's recession - My late awakening! (Part II)
Only kidding about the book - the story is a freesome; no one in their right mind would dole out cash to buy a book I had written I was acutely aware for some time that since leaving the seminary in 2003, my hair had begun to recede in rapid fashion....
Back in Ireland - The Masterplan
There is nothing worse than coming on to a blog and seeing it hasn't be updated.Usually there are good excuses - Optically, your eyes just can't take the web anymore; your relationship is beginning to suffer; you haven't been outside for a few weeks;...
Will the Irish kill the Lisbon Treaty?
Pulling the piss out of the Labour PartyThe Irish are a funny sort. Having a long history of not doing what their next door neighbours wanted them to do (sit back, suffer and enjoy British imperialism), despite famines and awful repression lasting ce...
Poles scapegoated and exploited - left, right and centre!
As I was browsing Polish news tonight on that time consuming masterful source of information, the interet, I came across a number of things connected to Polish migrants abroad. Beatroot's blog links to a Guardian article debunking common myths and sc...
Halloween in Ireland, Halloween in Poland
I've been introducing my students to the traditions of Halloween this in week at work, so I'd thought I'd share some reflections here about how I used to spend it as a boy in Ireland. Unlike my ancestors, I didn't have the hardship of hollowing out a...
Will Polish be the 3rd official language of Ireland?
Some advice - it's a beautiful but tough language to tacklePoles are certainly making their mark in Ireland. The masses have integrated very well into Irish culture and daily life especially since the colossal exodus after May 1st 2004, the day Polan...
Poland 61st in worldwide corruption report - alongside Cuba!
I know, I know, I know!I'm an efficient agent for the extended transmittance and deposition of shitty news about Poland! The balls of the matter seems to lie with the fact that it's hard enough to source good news here nowadays, or at least we all ju...
Reflections from Palestine - Part II
First published on Indymedia IrelandPart IIAnyhow, enough about soldiers. Thankfully I was free to come here, albeit for a short period of time, having no mortgage, kids (the only part of this triangle I would like to have) nor gas-guzzling car - and...
Poles head over heels about Britain and Ireland
Image from IndymediaJobs, jobs, and more jobs!Unemployment levels just keep going down, down, down over here in Poland. The June '07 figures stand at 12.4%, compared to 18% about 12 months ago. The Labour Ministry believe that the level may fall as l...
Serratia marcescens - A Mouldy Corpus Christi
First Published on IndymediasWaving the Papal FlagRecent First Communion recipients last Thursday got donned out in their frocks and mini-suits, wiped their faces of chocolate and discarded their new gameboys and mobile phones to participate in the m...
Polish Workers Break their Backs to Feed the Irish
A report in Poland's daily Gazeta Wyborcza newpaper that the Irish grocery distributor Musgrave Group has been exploiting Polish warehouse workers will come as no surprise to Poles who remember how their fellow countrymen and women also exposed unfai...
Polish Police Stop Irish Woman's Abortion
So it seems like Britain isn't the only place to be chosen by Irish women who want an abortion procedure. News outlets in Warsaw reported that police raided a house yesterday where an Irish woman was undergoing an abortion. She was detained for an un...
