Leaving Again

It is an important day for many young people in Ireland because the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate examinations both start today, so the first thing I need to do is wish everyone starting their examinations the very best of luck! Among other things, the results of the leaving certificate examinations are important for September’s […]

On Blow-Ins

At the start of the spring gardening season I decided to leave a bed that I had cleared unplanted to see what would grow there of its own accord. I expected standard weeds like dandelions, and did get a few of those, but more recently I have a considerable number of Ox-eye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare). […]

On My Knees

It has taken a bit longer that I expected to get this far but I have now completed the grading of one of my modules. It wasn’t the written examination that took all the time, but the marking of the computational physics projects. This is always a slow job but for some reason it took […]

The Sharp End of Term

So here I am, sitting in the (empty) Physics Computer Lab. The formal Computational Physics lab sessions are over, but I’m on duty to provide help the students with their project work, which will take up the remaining two-and-a-bit weeks of term. It’s a lovely day outside which explains why there are very few people […]

Double Standards and Ireland’s “Fuel Protests”

James Geoghegan is a "farm contractor" who passes himself off as an upstanding fellow but it turns out he has numerous judgements against him for non-payment of tax and cruelty to animals. He chose to put himself forward as the "PRO" of the protestors, which doesn't seem very wise given that it was inevitable his substantial sack of dirty laundry would get a very public airing.

A Gulf in the Airspace

So Operation Epstein Furore is in full swing, and already US and Israeli forces have scored some notable successes in the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians – the attack on a school in southern Iran that killed over 150 people, many of them children, stands out so far although it is certain that many more Iranian […]

The Alex Blue Case

One of the curiosities that sometimes arise from running a blog is that old posts suddenly start generating new traffic. This happened again yesterday when after lying dormant for many years, this post suddenly got a large number of hits after lying dormant for many years. The reason for its reactivation is that it concerns […]

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