Enda Kenny, leader of Fine Gael, proposed that Irish should be an optional subject in the Leaving Cert before the annual party conference this weekend.
The Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, is not too happy about this and has accused Fine Gael of electioneering and using the Irish language as a political football.
Enda is clearly [...]

Update: You can now buy the Bosco DVD online at the RTE shop!
I spotted The Best of RTE’s Bosco Volume 1 in Tower Records last night and handed over my €20 euro quicker than I can devour 6 Chicken McNuggets.
You get 7 episodes on it plus a bonus Christmas edition! It’s 3 hours and [...]

I heard an interview on Spin last weekend with a lady from Topshop HQ about the new flagship Dublin store. It will open this Friday (11 November) on St Stephen’s Green in the large building formerly occupied by Habitat and it promises to be 3 floors of shopping heaven!
The new Topshop store will include [...]

Update August 2006: A revised Movies@ site has now been launched. It’s still far from perfect, but it is a huge improvement on the original eyesore. I wish I had taken some screen shots, but you really had to browse the original version to truly experience the horror!
I have not got around to [...]