Positive books- two great examples...

I heard Dr. Corina Grace chatting about her new book "Take Charge of Your Career... and Fine a Job You Really Love!" on 4FM the other day. She sounds very good and the book does as well so I went into town and bought it the other day. As I was going to buy it I saw the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle sitting idly on the bannister of the stairs. I had just heard of it recently and it was divine interention that it was so strikingly put in front of me so I bought it. I am reading this book first. I'm reading it slowly and will also with the other one. It's definitely worth reading- I can say that about it so far. Corina Grace's book also is a workbook so it will take me a couple of weeks to read the both of them...

Fianna Fáil- what they have done to us- and are still doing...???

This article by Morgan Kelly an economics professor in UCD in The Irish Times today is certainly worth reading.

Enda's speech in the Dáil today is worth watching or listening to as well.

Mr Kenny told the Dáil today: "The IMF’s recent report on Ireland, Taoiseach, is a damning indictment of your record as minister for finance. The report makes it clear that your failed policies have given Ireland the worst recession of any of the advanced economies. Thousands of people have lost their jobs because you failed to do yours.

"The IMF leaves no room for doubt. On page 8 of the report it states: 'Ireland was perhaps the most overheated of all advanced economies'. On Page 21 it argues that: 'Well before the crisis hit, public finances had developed serious structural weaknesses.'," the Fine Gael leader said.

"The current Minister for Finance [Brian Lenihan] has certainly got the point. No sooner was the report out, but he was popping up on the media like some latter-day Pontius Pilate. Yes, he told the media, the economy was overheated - and then he slyly reminded everyone that he was not a member of the Government at the time."

Mr Kenny said: "The “Lost Decade” was the term applied to Japan in the 1990s, after its economic bubble burst. . . . Ireland, it is now clear, is going the same way as Japan in the 1990s.

"Using the IMF’s own forecasts, Ireland’s GDP will not reach 2007 levels until 2017. That’s your legacy as Minister for Finance, Taoiseach. A decade of growth wiped out, and tens of thousands of long-term unemployed."

Vótáil Fine Gael agus Páirtí an Lucht Oibre... seriously...

Rap tunes that are good

Being interested in sociology as well as politics I think that these rap tracks are great. Obviously I like music and these tracks are great music tracks but they are good for what they represent sociologically also.

Tabhair suas chun dáta an-mhaith i leith margaíochta na Gaeilge

Scríobh mé i mí Samhain go bfhuil gach UMB/ATM i siopaí ó Banc na hÉireann le rogha Gaeilge anois.

Anois tá an rogha ag gach UMB ón bainc anois. Ba chóir do ghaeilgeoiri scáirt, litir nó ríomhphost a sheoladh chucu ag fáiltiú an chinnidh. Agus ba chóir an stoicearacht céanna a dhéanamh leis na bancanna eile chomh maith agus ag luaigh go mbeadh sé an-mhaith dá mbeadh comharthaí dátheangacha acu chomh maith le seirbhís i nGaeilge in mbancanna ina bhfuil gaeilgeoirí ag obair.

Is é seo forbairt an-mhaith...!!!!!!

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Edit: D'fholisigh The Indo an litir thíos asam inniu.

Bank boost for Irish speakers

A chara,

Last November Bank of Ireland made the decision to have a Gaeilge option on their ATM's in shops in Ireland.

They have now extended the option to all of their ATM's in the country.

According to the Nuacht on TG4 they said that their decision was in response to the demand from customers so it is clear that Irish speakers have been using the option since last November. Having been a member of Cork-based Irish language marketing organisation Gael-Taca I know that the support is there amongst the majority of the business community for the the Irish language. The sector though has been too often untapped by the general organisations promoting the Irish language in particular Foras na Gaeilge and indeed by the Government who funds them.

Direct lobbying by Irish speakers also affected the decision by Bank of Ireland which illustrates that good things can be achieved when gaeilgeoirí put their minds to trying to affect change for the good of the language.

I hope that this story will encourage Irish speakers to try to affect more change.

Le dea-mhéin

Darren J. Prior
Loiste an Labhrais,
Caisleán Cnucha,
Baile Átha Cliath 15

Economy in Ireland- where we are now and how we got here

This post by Harry McGee is very good.

Ice Cube/N.W.A/Snoop Dogg/Eminen

I moved out of my parents gaff in March and am now living elsewhere. I have since bought a computer also for an unbelievably low amount. Living on my own I have been watching and listening to youtube a lot. I've been typing in the names of songs that I like and that I liked years ago and haven't listened to since then. I like all kinds of music. I like songs from all different genres. I've been listening recently to some rap tracks. Generally I don't like rap overall but there are some good tracks there. The tracks I have been listening to are between a few and twenty years old. It's strking that given their professed disenfranchisement from the establishment since then that Barack Obama is now the President of the U.S. That puts their outlook and societal work into perspective. I accept though the tradition of the times and some of the tracks are good. But lets just say though that I wouldn't invite any of the said rap artists over for dinner or have anything to do with them...

I've also been watching a lot of Borat and Bruno aka Ali G on youtube. Great to see his performance at the MTV music awards in March, which I only recently saw. He is the most outrageous man in the world... Admiration there... you bastard...

Foinse

Bhí an scéal sna meáin cumarsáide Gaeilge inniu. B'é an Sathairn seo an uair deireanach a mbeidh an nuachtáin i gcló.

Déileáil mé le Seán Clancy agus Bridget Bhreathanach ón nuachtán ó thaobh Nearfm agus tá siad an-dheas agus an-mhaith mar oibrithe. Tá fíor-súil agam go mbeidh an foireann ar fad in ann postanna nua a fháil, agus sna meáin cumarsáide Gaeilge má theastaíonn uathu a bheith ag obair san earnáil fós.

Ní raibh eagarfhocal an nuachtán láidir ó thaobh smaointí i leith cur chun cinn na Gaeilge. Labhair siad faoi staid na teanga ach ní raibh smaointí acu chun na teanga a láidriú. Ach bhí iriseoirí mhaith acu ag déanamh é sin agus bhí siad oscailte ó thaobh foilsiú litreacha. Is cuimhin liom gur d'fhoilsigh siad litir asam ag déanamh léirmheas, ionraic, i leith Conradh na Gaeilge agus staid an eagraíocht sin i measc go leor lucht an pholaitíocht san Oireachtas go háirithe i bhFine Gael. Bhí iontas orm gur d'fhoilsigh siad é...!!! :)

An Druma Mór:

FOINSE - an t-eagrán deiridh Dé Sathairn.

Ráiteas ó Fhoras na Gaeilge.

Tabhair suas chun dáta: bhí agallamh agam le Seán Clancy Príomh-Fheidhmeannach an nuachtáin inniu ar Near90fm maidir leis an scéal.