The Telegraph’s Sophie Butler reels off a list of tour operators offering quite a variety of fall-winter air-hotel packages from London to cities all over Europe. Most are relatively short jaunts (three to five nights) in good-to-upscale hotels. The majority of the deals require travel to conclude before the end of the year.
The essential checklist […]
Left: One of the tastefully furnished, prostitute-free rooms at the Hilton Dublin.
A lawyer upset at the Hilton Dublin
s policy regarding in-room prostitutes was so infuriated that he wrote the mighty Gawker Empire about it. Dublin
s our turf, our sweet liquor and Shane MacGowan-lookalike filled turf—We need to share.
Reader complaints about the Dublin Hilton’s policies after […]
Some guy named VittlesVamp is taking a weeklong European vacation and, since the year is 2005 and nothing actually happens unless it happens online, he’s giving us a full tour of a weeklong pub crawl. Fittingly enough, he’s starting his sojourn in Dublin, and, like we would probably do if we were in Dublin, he’s […]
As anyone who ever has sat through an endless world literature class in college can probably tell you that tomorrow is Bloomsday. It’s the 101st anniversary of the day when the protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” spends a day single-handedly destroying Dublin’s entire future tourism industry.
In Paris tomorrow, English-language bookstore Shakespeare And Co. hosts […]
Tuesday, 11th March 2008 – The Mayor of Clare today said that the ending of Aer Lingus’s direct service between Shannon and Chicago had caused numerous problems for members of the Irish-American and business community in the US Midwest.
The March Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, March 27th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Michael Strelow, Hedy Gibbons Lynott & John Corless
The March Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, March 27th, 6.30-8pm. […]
Tonight the BBC will air the first part of their 2008 “Passion” drama in which Simon Elliott the production designer has chosen to depict a “historically accurate” crucifixion as possible. “”He was probably put on a crude wooden gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position. It was fiendishly designed.”” says Mr Elliott […]
will bert send in the helicopter money?
Concern is also growing that, after Northern Rock and Bear Stearns, another bank casualty is looming on this side of the Atlantic. Many are now focusing on Irish banks, which have lent aggressively during the property boom. Irish Nationwide, which was recently given a ‘C’ rating from Moody’s - […]
Have heard from two reliable sources that Squeek has left the tunnel at Rath Lugh. She left with Gardai and some of her family present. The Gardai have taken her away from the site as far as I am aware.
Here’s hoping for 100 to take her place. Tara is THE symbol of dead-end corruption and […]
A filmmaker team propose to free the copyright of their documentaries about non-violent struggles in India
A professional filmmaker team recently came back from India with a set of documentaries about non-violent movements in this country.
From the 70’s to « Janadesh » the largest non-violent struggle since the independence, where 25,000 landless farmers walked 350km […]
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