Well, I’ve arrived safely in Vancouver. Nothing much to report yet, but two videos for your enjoyment: And (of course!): Now, where did I put my maple syrup, eh? (Oh, and don’t worry – I’m not actually up at 2am posting this, I scheduled it so it would go out during daylight Irish time) fastswfembed(“http://www.youtube.com/v/eDeDQpIQFD0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0″,560,340,’566-0′);fastswfembed(“http://www.youtube.com/v/nYSYipouABI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0″,425,344,’566-1′);
I’m back. I’m alive. The election was won. (Thanks, Avril). Took a bit longer to get back to blogging than expected, due to a bug in the upgrade of WordPress, but all sorted now. A few online things to note from the campaign – Liveblogs and Twitter really came to life during the counts & [...]
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I was at a very interesting presentation this week (probably last week by the time you read this) at the Irish Institute for European Affairs (IIEA). They were launching Johnny Ryan‘s paper The Next Leap. It describes what we should be doing to bring Ireland into the next stage of its economic development. It would [...]
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