Posted in Lithuania, Bohemians, immigration, football on Sep 9th, 2008 9 Comments »
I noticed this by accident while looking over a Guardian article on the biggest surprise in Saturday’s round of World Cup qualifying matches - Lithuania’s 3 nil away victory over Romania in the lovely sounding Cluj ( Jonathan Wilson on Romanian defeat ) I thought that the name of the scorer of the third […]
Posted in Literature, immigration, Film, music, Ireland on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
OK, I may have been looking for that famous footage of Bonnie Langford in a Youghal-stitching monokini but what I actually came up with was far more interesting. Somehow or other, I recently stumbled across the below clip on YouTube :
I often curse the damn things but, yet again, thanks to a mobile phone, I […]
Posted in Education, immigration, Government, Migrant Rights on Nov 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this via the BBC (Gawd bless ‘em). It a new online interactive game to help educate and inform people (especially young people) about the realities of being a refugee. The website, run by the UNHCR (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), states the point of the game as such:
In “Against […]
Posted in immigration, Property, Ireland on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Immigrant. immigrants, everywhere. Well they were on telly last night, at least. TV usually holds few surprises and even fewer delights, but last night saw a stack of decent programs clashing annoyingly. The last installment of Prosperity, maligned and defended here, featured the ups and downs, mainly downs it seems, of a Nigerian immigrant in […]
Posted in Religion, Education, immigration on Sep 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
It’s early September, the beginning of the school year and the resulting increase in the number of cars filled with parents and their children plumps out the summer’s steady stream of traffic into fat ribbons of congestion. With this of course, we also have the news that once again there are not enough school places […]
Posted in immigration, politics/Ireland, Ireland on Jul 13th, 2007 6 Comments »
the CSO has just released (12 July) a breakdown of nationalities in Ireland as recorded in the 2006 census. It makes for fascinating reading. The figures are far more modest than recent newspaper reports would have us believe. For a start, the actual number of Polish people in Ireland on the night of the census […]