Posts Tagged airports

Ireland: 22nd Most Competitive?

(Hat tip to Aidan) In the category of ‘Quality of Overall Infrastructure’ we rank 64th in the world.  64th!  64th out of 134 countries.  Our infrastructural quality ranks behind Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Azerbaijan, Jordan and Jamaica.  We are one of the richest countries in the world (as measured in GDP) and,yet we still trail behind [...]

October 31st, 2008 at 17:08 in Politics (Ireland) | tags: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Places You’ve Been To Blowing Up – Part II (Marriot Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan)

At least three places I’ve been to regularly have blown up in recent months – all of them places I felt (relatively) safe in while I was there.  I’m sure this isn’t something many readers will relate to particularly.  But not many readers have the travel background I have. Two weeks ago, a truck bomb [...]

October 1st, 2008 at 12:36 in Random Rocks, Security | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment