No Ferries Today via glasseyalley . com
Back to Inishmore for one. On a cycle around (part of) the island, we came across this dock area for fishing boats. Who can resist fishing nets and piles of worn rope? Not me anyway. Taken back in August. Seems like so much has happened since then. Well, so much has happened since then!... teacher training in ireland via A Langers Blog
So now I need some teacher training, to become a teacher and all!
There are a few courses around Ireland that will train you to become a teacher. The main 4 are through the National University of Ireland. Cork (UCC), Galway (NUIG), Maynooth (NUIM) and Dublin (UCD). DCU and Trinity (TCD) also run courses and Limerick (UL) does a nice Business Teacher course too.
So to apply for one the NUI courses, you have to go through a similar process to that of the CAO, through PAC (Postgratuate Applications Centre). You apply for an application form pack and receive it in the post. No online applications here, these guys want to keep it old school!
Be warned, the closing date for entry into the 2009/10 course is December 1st 2008! A whole 9 months before hand.
Photo owned by germanium (cc)... Girl in the Hoop via In Photos dot org
A running girl is framed by a hoop thrown into the air alongside her in Bishop Lucey Park during the “Peace in the Park” event 2 months ago.
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Tags: Bishop Lucey Park, Canon 10-22, Canon 40D, children, Cork, Cork Photos, girls, hoop, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, oil, People, Photography, Photos, Street, Urban... Housing bubble downfall via Gavin's Blog
The one with whats wrong with some of you!!! via Down with my Life by Vic Barry
Fluffy Links - Thursday 20th November 2008 via Damien Mulley
Life images via Gavin's Blog
Check out me in a music video! via BifSniff » Frank
Recently I got the opportunity to catch up with an old school friend I hadn’t seen in waaaaay too long, thanks to FaceBook we got back in touch and he asked me to take part in the making of a music video. I was only too happy to get involved and the result is a great looking video promo for Nassau’s ‘Funderland Fan’ directed by Mairtin de Barra - check it out, I’m the one with the knife
Funderland Fan Music Promo from Mairtin de Barra on...... Monty Python comes to YouTube via Gavin's Blog
Hotel Budapest via Despod's photo and comment blog.
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Windsor Castle via In Photos dot org
Windsor Castle, as seen from the pavement outside with benches going off into the distance like a moat stopping the tourists trampling on the lawn.
More corrupted images this evening and a few I didn’t want to lose including family shots and a couple of long exposure night scene. Email sent off to Warehouseexpress looking for a replacement. Will keep you posted.
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Tags: back and white, benches, Canon 10-22, Canon 40D, Castle, irishblogs, Photography, Photos, seats, Street, United Kingdom, Windsor, Windsor Castle... Curious Wines launches via Conor's Bandon Blog
You eagle-eyed West Cork drivers may have noticed a big new sign on the back of one of the units behind Great Gas on the Bandon Bypass. It is the retail/warehouse outlet of newly launched Curious Wines. Mike Kane, the owner, has put together a brilliant selection of wines which are not your usual supermarket generic stuff.
Their web-site has just gone live and it’s a corker (boom! boom!). Another stunning creation by the shockingly talented Ms Dent. I think it’s probably the best looking and most effective wine web-site in the country and puts the major chains to shame. The wine value is also fantastic and you really should buy by the case and save even more.
I’m just looking forward to the tastings that Mike has planned since I’ll be able to walk to them!... Budapest via Despod's photo and comment blog.
Sitting in Cafe Martinelli about to have a mocha in cold dry Budapest.
Interesting city - modern buildings and restored buildings jostle with ramshackle buildings that haven't been looked after since Communist days.
Modern trams run beside ancient tarta trams and rusty metro trains run through refurbished stations.
Marks and Spencer is near Saturn. Tesco, Cora and Auchan fight it out for business.
Seatbelts don't seem to be used. Drivers seem mad. Traffic police patrol tram junctions in the morning (an idea for Dublin maybe ?). Its like home with the poor information at tram/bus stops.
Prices ? Beer last night was around 3.50 for half a litre. Tram tickets are just over 1euro and just like home if you change tram or bus you have to buy a new one. This mocha is around 2.10 and...
becoming a teacher via A Langers Blog
Since I don’t have much to blog about these days, I’m going to bring you on the journey of becoming a teacher in Ireland.
First of all, why do I want to become a teacher? Lets look at the pros and cons of going down the road of teaching.
The Cons
Dealing with kids all day
Some kids don’t like to learn
The pay
Bureaucracy
The nicknames
Dealing with parents
Lack of respect among other educated professionals
Car getting keyed
Early mornings
Uncertainty in the current economic climate
The Pros
Teaching people
June
Influencing them to do my bidding once they have grown up (may involve subliminal messaging in my teaching methods.. haven’t quite figured this one out yet.. I’ll keep you posted)
July
Job satisfaction
August
Job security once you have one
Photo owned by sridgway...... Putting Manners on the Banks via Of Laws and Men
Chartered accountant Kieran O'Donnell T.D., Willie O'Dea's gift to the Fine Gael parliamentary party, has been expressing himself on the banking crisis. I am going to criticise Mr O'Donnell below, but it is only fair to observe that he is making the best of his opportunities, and that he is clearly not lacking in either political perspicacity or expertise in financial matters. His questions to the Financial Regulator last month were often intelligent and incisive, even if the politician in him was winning out over the financial analyst, in my humble opinion.However, his political side seemed to be hold pretty monopolistic sway for the entire of his contribution to the George Hook programme last night. In his view - which in essence is not too different to views also expressed by Henry...
The Celts and the Hindus: the cognate cultures of Ireland and India via Metro Gael
Am gaeth i mmuirAm tond trethanAm fuaim maraAm dan secht ndrennAm séig i n-aillAm dér gréne. Song of Amhairghin.I am the self establishedIn the heart of all contingent beings;Also, I am the beginning, middle and endOf all contingent beings. Rig-VedaThe Poet WB Yeats once remarked that up until the battle of the Boyne Ireland belonged to Asia. A nineteenth century scholar by the name of Charles Mackay wrote an etymological dictionary of Gaelic in which he surmised that the origin of the word Asia itself could be derived from the old Irish ais meaning back and ia meaning country or land, Asia being the ‘back land’, the land from which we are derived. I do not wish to go into the relative merits or validity of Mackay’s linguistic...
Irish iPhone user? Take the survey, win €50 via Damien Mulley
i’m running a survey to find out the habits of iPhone users in Ireland. How you use the phone, what you spend, feedback on the phone etc. If you fill in the survey you’ll be entered into a draw to win a voucher for €50 worth of iTunes vouchers or if you send an iPhone owner to the survey and they fill it in, you’ll be entered into another draw for a €50 voucher.
The Irish iPhone survey is here.
If you have any issues with the server etc. please let me know.
Photo owned by kleinman (cc)... Patrick Stewart Plays Carrot Clarinet via Riemann's Cut
Blog post of the year via Conor's Bandon Blog
Fluffy Links - Wednesday November 19th 2008 via Damien Mulley
The one where Mr.Motivator has an accident and the OAP Hip Hop choir via Down with my Life by Vic Barry
Watch How These People Vote via Of Laws and Men
Last month, I remarked that there will always be banking crises. Readers may have been sceptical, but wisely did not dare to say so.Via Paul Kedrosky (again) I learn of the tired fool site which reproduces Tacitus in regard to a banking crisis two millenia ago.Tacitus refers to the fact that every member of the Senate was involved in banking abuses. This prompted me to look at the Register of Members Interests for the Irish legislature. Here is the list of the 20 or so of our representatives who admit to being bank...
OF via In Photos dot org
Sign spotted on a garage door in Taplow, in the UK.
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