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Well 2007 is on the way out. And as usual in Ireland, all things come to a halt for a while. Christmas is a scary time of the year because, usually, everything gets changed this week. This is probably the reason why resolutions are saved for this time of the year in this part of the world. You've just survived one week of changes intact. Why not make more...For some people, this is a time of the year when they are handed responsibilities that they normally don't look after. (Some even learned new skills this way). These people (of which I'm one) have their lives thrown a little off kilter for a while. And they have to consider what's important and what needs to change.For others everything comes to a stop. Work stops. The life of the office stops (and some people try to hide the evidence...

Today's Science Week question is "In your opinion what was the best invention in 2007".I've been looking in to this, partly to see what exactly was invented in 2007. The US Patent search revealed a few things ( like this completely not work safe item), ah. No.With 20/20 hindsight we might declare Bruce Crower's improved engine design the eventual winner. Or given the popularity of Lego as the best invention of people's childhood the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT software as the best. Given my data loss, I'm tempted to award the linkable USB hard disk as the winner, but no.As Conor asked "How many people are going to plump for the jesusphone in their posts?" Well no. The iPhone simply has one of the best user interfaces on a touch screen created. However the phone itself , without Bluetooth, may...

Well the last of the Prizes have been announced today.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 jointly to Leonid Hurwicz, University of Minnesota, MN, USA, Eric S. Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, and Roger B. Myerson, University of Chicago, IL, USA, "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".Press...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.Must say didnt expect that!Press ReleaseAny way on to LiteratureThe Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007 is awarded to the English writer Doris Lessing"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".BioEconomics on...

Well i didnt blog about Physics yesterday as I had work and stuff so here it is!The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, and Peter Grünberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance". Press ReleaseAnd Chemistry was announced this morningThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 to Gerhard Ertl, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces".Press ReleaseNext up is literature which is...

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to awardThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007 jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for their discoveries of "principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"For more info see the press release hereThe Time line for the other announcements are as follows: Physics - Tuesday, October 9, 11:45 a.m. CET (at the earliest)Chemistry - Wednesday, October 10, 11:45 a.m. CET (at the earliest)Peace - Friday, October 12, 11:00 a.m. CETEconomics - Monday, October 15, 1:00 p.m. CET (at the earliest)Literature is still to be...

Nuff said! Get your Rebel desktop wallpaper here. 2007, all irealnd, animals, ciarrai, Corcaigh, Corcaigh Abú, Cork, cork county board, final, gaa, kerry, Up the...

Every September, hundreds (sometimes thousands but this is rare) of Kerry Animals form a mega-herd and make their way northwards to the metropolis of Dublin. Each year when the mega herd arrives on the outskirts and in the centre of Dublin city, visitors and locals alike look on in astonishment at the their backward ways and struggle to understand their thick unintelligible accents. Scientists have long studied the migratory habits of the Kerry Animal but the details of this remarkable transeprovincial migration are only now emerging from a study using electronic tracking tags to follow individual Kerry Animals. The Kerry Animal’s Migratory Path The migration period can last up to 2 days but many make the migratory round trip in one day (the shortest know cycle for any migratory...

Well the 1st of September (8pm) sees the first Eurovision Dance Contest taking place in London. The website was launched on Wednesday, linky. A lot of stuff is still coming soon.16 countries are taking part. They are: Austria (ORF), Denmark (DR), Finland (YLE), Germany (ARD/WDR), Greece (ERT), Ireland (RTE), Lithuania (LRT), the Netherlands (NPO/TROS), Poland (TVP), Portugal (RTP), Russia (RTR), Spain (TVE), Sweden (TV4), Switzerland (SRG-SSR), Ukraine (NTU), the United Kingdom (BBC)Ireland will be represented by Nicola Byrne & Mick Donegan, who still have to announce their dance styles. The voting is in the usual eurovision style so it should be fun! Oh, also its being hosted by Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman, in English and French! PS this is the second Eurovision post alluded to...

Bhí lá mór amugh i Bodenstown Dé Domhnaigh seo caite. Suas le cupla cead duine, ceol, máirseáil, caint agus speech-aling! Is feidir leat an óráid a thug Gerry Adams le hais uaigh Wolf Tone a íoslódáil Anseo. (.wav 18MB) You can download the graveside oration given by Gerry Adams at this years commemoration Here. (.wav 18MB) (íoslódáilthesaitheithesithe 12 uair) (downloaded 12 times) 2007, Bodenstown, commemoration, gerry adams, kildare, oration, sallins, sinn fein, Speech, wolf...

Well last nights semi was very surprising, only 1 of my predictions got through and that was Turkey, which means no Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Denmark or Andorra (my favourites). I voted for Andorra and Denmark, I think my predictions are a kiss of death. I got 4 right last year. Anyway the final is on tomorrow night on RTÉ2 and BBC 2 at 8:00pm. I shall be Instinct watching it on the big screen, so if your around come say hi! Now I'll run through the finalists, with links to their songs and their betting odds from paddypower.com.Bosnia & Herzegovina (Youtube) 80-1This year Bosnia and Herzegovina is represented by Marija Sestic with 'Rijeka Bez Imena'. A nice uplifting song. Don't think it will do well.Spain (Youtube) 66-1Spain is represented by D'nash with 'I love you mi...

Well its nearly time wooo! The 52nd Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast from the Hartswall Areena, Helsinki, Finland and will be shown on RTÉ 2 and BBC Three at 8.00pm. This is the largest contest ever, so this will be a long post on the Semi-Finalist. The countries are listed in running order.Bulgaria (Song on youtube)Bulgaria this year is being represented by Elitsa TODOROVA and Stoyan YANKOULOV with a song called 'Water'. Its is a very rhythmic song with haunting singing. Its fast paced so should go down well. Just not my cup of tea.Israel (Song on youtube)Israel is being represented by a group called Teapacks with a song called 'Push the Button'. A very strong about terrorist's (Israel knows all about this). Its in English and French. I don't like it. Its not very often I like...

Well the counting is back under way since midday in the UK Elections that took place last night. Of course there is huge issues with the number of spoiled votes in the Scottish Elections. The State of the Partiesat this timeLabour 32 SeatsScottish National Party 30 SeatsLiberal Democrats 12 seatsConservatives 7Green 1The SNP have had a huge up surge in results taken a number of new constituency seats, including Alaxander Salamond, the leader taking Gordon from the Liberal Democrats. The SNP are also doing very well on ths lists have been declared getting 14 out of the 21 seats declared. What will Gordon Brown do with the Nationalists in...

Well I've already mentioned Scotland and Wales but by far the biggest test was the Local Elections in England. This was test for all the main parties in the UK, Tony Blair's final hours as Prime Minister and David Cameron as Leader of the Conservatives.The state of the PartiesConservatives 92 CouncilsLabour 27Liberal Democrats 14Other 2No Over-all Control 55Ill be updating throughout the day on all the elections and will do a round-up tonight after...

Well all of the constituencies in Wales have declared and four of the five lists have also been declared.The state of the PartiesLabour 26Plaid Cymru 13Conservatives 11Liberal Democrats 5Others 1Thats means its a coalition government for Cardiff Bay, just like Holyrood. Likly Coalitions include Lab/LD and Lab/PC of course once the final list is known you could have a grand coalition of PC/Con/LD/Oth. There will be interesting negotiations...

The GAA have redesigned their website yet again www.gaa.ie. At least whoever put it together for them this time got the provinces right!! Ill reserve judgement on it for now, but it doesnt look too bad at first glance. 2007, design, gaa, launch, redesign,...

I’m From Barcelona, The Village, Dublin, 02.03.07 Vid 1 / Vid 2 / Vid 3 / Vid 4 / Vid 5 2007, Dublin, gig, Im From Barcelona, Live, march, the...

Flew into Dublin on Friday morning and the phone was hopping from 8am til midnight. RTE filmed me in the Alexander at 1130am and it went well. Philip that interviewed me was fantastic to chat to. Someone who knows his subject matter and gets blogs. We had a good discussion after the interview where we talked about media and technology and he educated me a little on what he does. Chatted to a few journalists by phone all day and then rushed to Trinity for 1830 so I could give a talk about IrelandOffline and lobby groups. Thanks to the 6-7 people that turned up on a Friday night. Glad I could answer everyone’s questions. After Trinity I headed over to the Village to see “I’m from Barcelona” play. They eventually took to the stage at 2130 and I was so physically...

Ná déan dearmad go bhfuil Sheachtain na Gaeilge ag rith ón 3ú lá go dtí an 17ú lá don mí seo. Tá a lán imeachtaí ar siúl ar fuid na tíre mar is gnath agus go hidirnaisiunta chomh maith. 2007, gaeilge, imeachtaí, Márta, Seachtain na...

100 seats left for the Blog Awards. Not registered? Do so now. Sponsorship slots left too. Edelman Dublin has started a blog. Hooray. Well done to “No. 1 on Google for my first name” Piaras and the others in Edelman for that. Hopefully they might show up in the top ten Google search for Irish Public Relations Company. Piaras owns the phrase “Irish public relations” you’ll notice I shall call this photo “Where is the love?”. As Suzy points out, some previous blogging regulars are back again. Jeez. Matty Kiely’s is closed. Matt was great. He’d go on holiday and put a sign in the window “On holiday” and leave it at that. Fantastic fish and chips in there though. Microsoft Paint on an ATM. Hah. Via Fred, Arcade Fire...

Picture taken of the exact same spot in Moscow in January 2006 and again in January 2007. Can you spot the difference? Pic from englishrussia.com. 2006, 2007, englishrussia.com, Global warming, January, moscow, spot the difference,...

Plan your year with AGH. Full listing of the years main events (Sports, Cinema, Festivals, Gigs, Holidays…etc). For the full list click here or click on the individual months below. January February March April May June July August September October November/December 2007, 2007 Year Planner, cinema festivals, gigs, holidays, january february march, Planner, sports, Year...

Preparations are underway for the YFG Pre-Election Conference and 30th Anniversary Banquet 2007. This will be the main event in the YFG calendar before the next election and our last chance to get together to set out what we will deliver for young people at the election.This year also marks 30 years since Ireland’s largest political youth wing was established, we will be marking this with a special celebration. What: YFG Pre-Election Conference and 30th Anniversary dinner 2007.When: 10am Saturday 3, February 2007.Where: Jury’s Hotel Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.Deadlines:Submission of motions relating to the areas of The Environment, Health and Education: Friday 16 January 2007.Submission of nominations to contest Senate elections on behalf of YFG on the NUI Panel: Tuesday 23 January...

Hello Europe, this is Cork Calling!Well its getting closer! The year 2007 that is and im already getting my fill of updates from esctoday.com and eurovision.tv but i hadnt realisied that this year a record 42 countries will be taking part in the competition. God the voting will be even longer. This year Hungary and Austria (dropped out for 2006) return to the competition and teh Czech Republic and Georgia join the ESC Family. Also this year with the seperation of Montenegro from Serbia, they are competing as seperate countries. The contest could have been bigger but Monaco has decided not to take part this yearThe line up for the 52nd Edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, so far isSemi-Final: Thursday 10th of May, 2007Participating countries (28):...