Archive for September, 2007
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. – Leo Buscaglia
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
There was so much anticipation for Ireland having a successful Rugby World Cup campaign that you would think that a national tragedy has taken place by their failure to notch up significant results in their games so far.
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Age old problems
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
A recent YouGov survey has shown that only 5% of people consider themselves well informed in relation to illnesses such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
In the UK alone there is said to be 700,000 people who suffer from some form of these diseases and I can only imagine how difficult it is for a family to [...]
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On The Lighter Side
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Well it’s Friday so it’s time for some funnier and light hearted stories doing the rounds.
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An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere – Samuel Johnson
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
“You have 10 minutes to go home or be shot” that’s what protestors in Yangon were reportedly told by Myanmar troops. It was the 200 soldiers reaction to 1,000 chanting protesters that hurled stones and water bottles at them.
I’m not sure if there can ever be something as simple as a peaceful protest, someone from [...]
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Nothing will change
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Do we really think anything will happen to our “beloved” Taoiseach after the Mahon Tribunal questioning?
Listening to the radio on the way home last night the same questions seemed to keep getting asked by the same people who thankfully pushed hard enough for this to be brought to light. If it was 20 years ago [...]
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Lethal Lottery
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
“When I win the lottery I will buy…” we hear that all the time from our friends and family. It is mostly just an off the cuff remark, but I often wonder about our desperation especially when it comes to greed.
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Monday, September 24th, 2007
It does baffle me sometimes how there are people in positions of power that will abuse the trust that is placed in them. Politicians, police and solicitors are just some of those we look to when we need help of a serious nature. So it was with some shock to see how there are doctors [...]
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TRUTH
Monday, September 24th, 2007
I recently listened to a lecture about the media which was given by a spokesperson for the Rossport Five, Dr Mark Garavan. In it, he spoke about about the pressure to translate people’s motives into categories which ‘the media’ can readily understand.
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“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” Benjamin Franklin
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
I’ve often wondered about the way that we put faith in people and forces of nature. Sometimes I think we do it because we just have a need to feel better about ourselves because if we stopped to think about it all long enough, we might not like the person we see in the mirror [...]
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Do we like it when the Bad Guys win?
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
I tend to believe the notion of ying and yang: that for every good person there is a little bad and for every bad person there is a little good. It struck me this week watching the hoopla of Mr Ahern once again at the Mahon Tribunal that we sometimes like to see the bad [...]
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