Today’s Irish Independent (free subscription required) reports that there are signs that the Irish property market may finally be starting to slow up just a little. Certainly, there has been evidence of a major cooling off in Dublin within the last few weeks. (NB I am touching anything that looks remotely wooden as I type!) [...]

Aside from the brilliant boards.ie, the Irish site I find most useful at the moment is the Dublin Journey Planner from the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO). I thought I had blogged about this ages ago but apparently not! You enter a start and end address in Dublin, and it will map out the route by [...]

On passing another couple on the scenic coastline walk between Dalkey and Killiney: “I can reply to e-mails OK…. I just can’t instigate an e-mail” Well, it made us chuckle anyway…

And not very sensible either. Wise words from the Kaiser Chiefs in the light of Saturday’s Dublin riots. 9.5 Saturdays out of 10, I head into Dublin city centre but not last weekend. I deliberately stayed out of town to avoid any trouble that I feared the Love Belfast parade could cause. Chicken Licken that [...]