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Time For A BTW?

Face — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:57:50 +0000

If you’re around Dublin next week and would like to meet some Irish based bloggers, twitterers or social media socialites, then get to the BTW event! (Blogger, Twitter, Whatever!) Organised by Jason Roe of http://jasonroe.me these events prove to be very popular.

The meet up is taking place at 7pm on Thursday 29th July in The Church Bar. More details can be found on by clicking on Jason’s site here.

Crystal Swing FTW!

Face — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:46:01 +0000

An internet sensation apparantely shot to limelight courtesy of @glinner and Sean Moncrief on Newstalk from Midleton in Cork. You know all this already of course.

Don’t know what Crystal Swing is? Then you are either dead or not from Ireland.

So just watch and enjoy…

There are no words I can add to this post. It is already… perfect.

“I’ll buy that for a dollar!”

Face — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:49:29 +0000

We all know how awesome Ben Dunne is here in Ireland. Everything the man touches turns to gold. A very successful business man having been head of Dunne Stores before handing the reigns over, he also owns a chain of gyms and I’m sure he has plenty of other very successful ventures. Watching him on The Apprentice would have been far more entertaining and worthwhile than Bill Cullen in my opinion. Anyway, more recently, it would be impossible not to have heard Mr. Dunne’s dulcet tones promoting his latest venture, bendunne.com, over the airwaves. In short its a site similar to buyandsell.ie for all our buying and selling needs. The cost of advertising on bendunne.com is very cheap.

Which probably explains why there have been many bizarre and funny ads on bendunne.com. Some clever clogs took note of this and set up beendunne.com which gives you the highlights of the best ones!

Enjoy! www.beendunne.com

Bill Shatner talks about his Tinnitus

Face — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:25:09 +0000

Stumbled across these 2 videos sponsored by the American Tinnitus Association. Unfortunately, nothing of the sort in Ireland.

#wobblybiker Motorbike Spin to Cork!

Face — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:18:55 +0000

So last week a gang of about 15 bikers took to the roads from Dublin and headed to Cork. What an overnight trip! The weather was good, the buzz was awesome and the anticipation for Cork poured beer was high! I drive a Honda Deauville myself which is a 650cc tourer. Its a big bike but was actually the smallest bike for the day, with most other riders on BMW’s or tuned road bikes.

We left Dublin via the N7 at 9:30. Unofficially marshalled by those good folks at Bike 2 Bike Training, we plotted a route over the back roads that took us from Dublin to Blessington via the Sally Gap, on over to Kilkenny city for lunch, then towards Tipperary, Clare, over the V to Waterford before finally arriving in Cork.

We didnt arrive in Cork in 6:30pm which goes to show how much of a challenge the route was. Many roads were windy, gravelly, badly marked but that didnt deter from the fun and the sights. We took a somewhat leisurely pace and safety was as always paramount. Taking the back roads reminds you of how beautiful the country really is and we dont often get to see it when bombing down the motorway in rush hour traffic!

The arrival to Cork was celebrated with lots of beer, a trip to the local pubs and then more beer to wash it the first lot down.

Myself and one of the other bikers, John Fair, tweeted the day’s exploits on Twitter with the tag #wobblybiker

Needless to say the trip home the next day in the rain was not as pleasant…

#wobblybiker – Older Men Take a Bike Ride!

Face — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:25:22 +0000

I’m excited about this weekend. Myself and a buddy, John Fair, both share a love for all things 2 wheeled with engines. (Thats a complicated way of saying we like our motorbikes) John and I are taking to the road early Saturday morning with 12 others on a long trip to Cork. By long trip, I mean Dublin to Cork via Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Lismore and Cork. Hopefully the weather keeps up.

We plan on taking lots of photos, and um, maybe washing down a beer or 2. You can follow our goings on in real time on twitter as we will be tweeting updates and photos with the hashtag search #wobblybiker

Will report back on the day’s antics next week!

CLinks – Ninja Cats

Face — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:21:53 +0000

Ok this is just for a bit of fun. Everyone knows what a lolcat is. It has inspired many a good photo but mostly crap ones to plague internet forum. However lolcat for a brief moment spurned ninja cat on youtube. Check it out:

But as with everything on the internet. There are imitators. But this one is even better than the original for all the wrong reasons! Check out the girly man scream at the end!

CLinks are back!

Face — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:18:43 +0000

Some CLinks to keep you entertained, or not, depending on what you are in to!

What an odd site. The new lolcat? Check out the adventures of Gynolamp here!

Irish Blogger Jason Row caused a bit of a stir for Ryanair this week with this blog post here.

Jack Black takes the console wars a bit too far here.

And while on the gaming theme, Whitest Kids You Know show us what its really like to playing online games below.

Attn: Entrepreneurs, Accountants, Company Directors and Business Owners! Please take a moment to complete this Survey!

Face — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:38:53 +0000

Given the existing economic climate that we’re in and the increase in company liquidations, I’ve put together a survey to assess how important cash flow is to companies at present and to determine how satisfied the decision makers are with the credit control and collections.

Please take a moment to complete this brief survey with your company’s view. All responses are taken in complete confidence and only the aggregated results will be published. User’s will not be identified.

Click Here to take survey

Thanks for your help!

Latest CLinks

Face — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:13:29 +0000

Ok so its been a while since I have put up some CLinks, let hope these are up to scratch!!

Check out Irishboy John Williams and his quest to win in the Twitter Shorty Awards here.

The recently successful Teen Camp Ireland event in Ireland has a few clips on YouTube, check them out below!

One of my favourite blogs, 2 Weeks on a Trolley can be found here. Its written by Irish people who work in the medical profession are doctors or nurses, some in Ireland and some abroad. Very interesting read.

The lads over at the excellent ifoods.tv prepare for the launch of their new name here.

BBC 3 news presenter Tasmin Lucia Khan learns that running to your desk with seconds to spare before live broadcast leaves you breathless here.