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The thoughts of Daragh Mc Grath

Browsing Posts published in May, 2003

Ok, I’m not long in from Rosy’s 21st, not much point in me going to bed seen as everyone’s alarms were set for an hour after I got in, so I decided to upload the pictures that I took at the party tonight instead and put them up here. T’was a great night all in [...]

Well that’s it, work’s now over for the next two weeks, and I’m away outta here to have a ball with a bit of luck, I’m well excited now! Hopefully I’ll be getting some sort of net access to update the blog and upload a few pictures, I’ll have a dialup connection with the mobile, [...]

Ooppss , I forgot to mention the other day that Susan and Ian from here in work got engaged recently and kept it all hidden from us for a while, but now we all know and I’d like to wish em all the best!

Heh, got a good email today which was an article taken from the Lonely Planet Guide to Ireland, in which they describe hurling. The full article is available here, but below is a quick excerpt from it. A hurling match is perhaps the fastest spectator sport in the world (with only ice hockey matching it [...]

I quite like this pic which shows normal traffic in Monaco alongside the pitlane and all that goes on within it

Well that’s it, it’s finally the day before the holidays! Starting to get excited about it now, I’ve had a bit of a mad week so haven’t had much time to think about it, but got a lot of things sorted out now so I can start thinking about it and looking forward to it! [...]

Ok, am I the only one who thinks this photo looks well dodgy! U.S. Army Special Janet Sutter of Bloomington, Illinois searches an Iraqi woman at a checkpoint yesterday in Baghdad. The searches in western Baghdad were part of a military sweep in response to a spate of attacks against American soldiers in the area.

I’ve just found out from the BBC Sports page that biking star David Jeffries was killed in an accident today in the Isle of Man, and Jim Moodie was seriously injured in the same crash Isle of Man TT star David Jefferies has been killed in an accident during a practice session for this year’s [...]

Some things never change, Schumacher is on Provisional Pole for the Grand Prix on Sunday: Driver Team Fastest Lap Deficit Laps Completed 1 M. Schumacher FER 1:16.305 0.000 3 2 R. Barrichello FER 1:16.636 0.331 3 3 J. Button BAR 1:16.895 0.590 3 4 J. Trulli REN 1:16.905 0.600 3 5 D. Coulthard MLA 1:17.059 [...]

There’s one thing that drives me mad (ok, there’s plenty, but this is one of them!) and that’s journalists writing incorrect technical articles when they really don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. While I admit there are plenty of excellent tech journalists writing for Irish media, there are some that come out with [...]