So, there's been, understandably, a lot of talk about con harassment policies lately, and in the run up to the 2012 Discworld Convention we suddenly realised that while we had one in the minds of the committee, we didn't have it written down, so really, like any unwritten policy, it didn't exist. Dónal, whose LJ I can't remember, wrote the first ( Read more... )

A few years ago I wrote a piece on my LJ about Gaelcon (www.gaelcon.com) and how, in the run up to the con, it filled every available space in my life and head. At this point in time the Discworld Convention 2012 (http://www.dwcon.org) is doing pretty much the same thing. The con starts on Friday ( Read more... )

During some conversation last night my feelings on Labour's current political actions finally crystalised. Since the election and through the budget I've had the sense that they were doing things because they had to and I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. However now that Seán Sherlock is proceeding with his completely unnecessary ( Read more... )

As the VAT increase lumbers closer I still can't wrap my head around why the government are doing it, or perhaps why the Troika are forcing the government to do it. I find myself presuming that it's just because they are very blinkered (yes, I'm being nice here) and choosing to forget there's a land border an hour up the road from Dublin, over ( Read more... )

Pick a preference, any preference? We're just over a week from the Irish Presidential Election 2011 and it's all still to play for. However I have no doubt you're all desperately wondering who I'm going to vote for and, if not, I'm going to tell you anyway ( Read more... )

Or some bullshit like that...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0902/1224303347904.htmlNeither the current Pope nor John Waters know anything of modern Irish society. They seem to believe that if they keep on denying the corruption at the core of the Catholic Church and keep on claiming that the repeated (and ongoing) child abuse ( Read more... )

So, I'm not working on a presidential campaign any more...

( This gets long, I do hope it is also interesting. )

Yesterday, during a debate nobody was expecting much out of, Taoiseach Enda Kenny made a very suprising, and welcome, speech. The full text can be found here and watched hereThis is ground breaking stuff as every commentator has been saying. It is, finally, an outright rejection of the lies and cover-ups that the Roman Catholic Church has been ( Read more... )

But, well, the LJ tab was just never open when I was away, which might say a lot about the site, or rather my interactions with it, right now ( Read more... )

And last, but not least, LJ.

I am be-uncled! Max Nisbet was born at 08:30, 3.63kg - Ciara and Max doing really well (according to the frazzled new Daddy :) ). Pictures etc to come later (may be tomorrow before I get to see the little guy).