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Category: Living in Ireland
Gunfire in Ballyhaunis via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Ballyhaunis is on RTE again today - twice in one week !
First this week we had the O’Gorman half hour visit to Ballyhaunis - which didn’t do the town many favours. He must have been on a tight budget and a short timescale. He showed us two grocery shops that look like they haven’t...
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Ballyhaunis on RTE via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Ballyhaunis on RTE tonight at 7pm . Paddy O’Gorman visits Ballyhaunis in Co Mayo, where one shopkeeper worries that the number of local businesses closing will lead to dereliction and disrepair - but the roving reporter also discovers a halal meat shop that is thriving.
RTE One 7:00pm-7:30pm (30 minutes) Sun 15...
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Newspapers and Larry Murphy via Work at Home Dad,
I bought a Sunday newspaper today - and my main criteria for choosing a paper today was one that didn’t have Larry Murphy on the front page. That narowed the choice down to just 2 - The Sunday Business Post or the Independent on Sunday. ended up getting the Sunday Business Post.
Why are the papers so bothered about this released prisoner called Larry Murphy who has served his sentence for rape? They are following him everywhere and encouraging people to do the same. I do not condone what he did - but he has served the sentence he was given and is entitled to his freedom.
The tabloid papers stirring up hatred as...
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Ballyhaunis Bank Holiday Weekend Festival via Ballyhaunis Blog,
This SAturday and Sunday sees the annual Ballyhaunis Festival back again for 2010.
On Saturday June 5th there will be displays and exhibitions by local sports clubs both in the new multi-purpose sports complex and in the Friary grounds.
At 1:30pm there will be children’s street art in the Friary grounds – with four sections...
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What’s that Smell ? via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Dawn Country Meats Ltd, trading as Western Proteins in Ballyhaunis, had the highest number of complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2009 .
The Ballyhaunis meat plant had 436 complaints about smells - accounting for 25% of all complaints in Ireland in 2009 about companies which need pollution control licences.
There were just 9...
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What Really Matters? via Ballyhaunis Blog,
WHAT WILL MATTER
by Michael Josephson
I found this here and thought is was worth sharing.
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power...
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Buy Icelandic Volcanic Ash via Ballyhaunis Blog,
You can buy your own volcanic ash - fresh from the volcano that is causing all the flight disruptions.
Volcanic Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull Glacier Eruption – own a piece of modern history.
Buy it...
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Top 20 Secondary Schools in Ireland via Irish Towns Guide,
According to the Sunday Times – these are the top 20 secondary schools in Ireland.
They base their results on the numbers of students gaining places in autumn 2008 and 2009 at one of the nine universities on the island of Ireland, main teacher training colleges, Royal College of Surgeons, National College of Art and Design or any English,Welsh or Scottish university or equivalent.
This may not be the best measure of school performance – but since the Irish government and the Irish teachers don’t want to publish exam results or carry out proper inspections with meaningful comparable results – these figures are all we have.
Top 20 Schools
1 Gonzaga College, Ranelagh, Dublin
2 Colaiste Iosagain, Booterstown, Co Dublin
3 Glenstal Abbey School, Murroe, Co......
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Moan of the Day - Bottled Water - via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Bottled water - you can’t go far these days without seeing someone wandering around like an overgrown baby, clutching plastic sucky-bottles of water.
Do people think that if they go for more than ten minutes without consuming some form of beverage, they’ll shrivel up and die?
I remember when the first thing...
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Headstone Prices Reduced via Ballyhaunis Blog,
The cost of dying in Ballyhaunis is getting cheaper - which should be good news I suppose? Then again - the dead person won’t really care how much it costs.
Headstones are reduced by 20% at Gavins undertakers on Knox Street . Hurry now before it’s too late...
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NCT Delays could mean a free test via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Trying to book an NCT test in Castlerea is almost impossible at the moment. The online NCT booking system has no dates available in the next 6 weeks. If you ring the NCT you are told there are no appointments available in Castlerea - but they offer to put you on a list and to...
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More Top Tips via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Top Tips April 9th
MEN. WHEN listening to your favourite CD, simply turn up the sound to the volume you desire; then turn it down three notches. This will save your wife/girlfriend/mother from having to do it.
BOY RACERS. Give your car that lowered suspension, ground-hugging racing look by driving around with 12 paving slabs in...
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Class of 1990 Ballyhaunis Reunion via Ballyhaunis Blog,
There is a 20th year reunion planned for the 1990 class of Ballyhaunis Community School.
It is on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 9:30pm
Location: The Hazel, Main Street, Ballyhaunis.
More details on the Facebook Event...
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Clocks Changing March 2010 via Work at Home Dad,
Don’t forget to set your clocks forward by one hour on Sunday 28th March 2010.
The change officially takes place at 01.00 Greenwich Mean Time.
We may be losing an hour of sleep on Sunday morning but the extra hour of daylight in the evenings will be......
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Nigerians coming to Ireland will be fingerprinted via Ballyhaunis Blog,
As from March 2010 , all visa applicants aged 6 years and over, residing in Nigeria will have to provide fingerprints (irrespective of nationality)
The new rules came into force this month see...
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My life in Ireland via EIL Intercultural Learning, Hun Bin 'Jackson' Lee is a current exchange student on EIL's Secondary School Programme in Ireland. Originally from Korean, Jackson has been living with a host family and going to school in Colaiste Dun Iascaigh in Cahir since August 2009 and will stay to complete the academic year in June 2010. Here are his reflections on his time spent in Ireland:
My name is Hunbin from Korea. I’m also known as Jackson in Ireland. I am now participating in the International Student Programme by EIL in Ireland. I am a student in a secondary school ‘Colaiste dun Iascaigh’, which is located in Cahir, Co. Tipperary. The reason why I decided to become an exchange student was that I wanted to experience an entirely different life. Since I was a little child, I wondered how people living in the other...
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When is Mothers Day 2010 in Ireland and UK via Work at Home Dad,
Mothers Day is coming up soon - I know because I’ve seen a few ads online for flowers. I had to check what date Mother’s day was - it’s confusing beacuse in the USA it is on a different date to here. In America it falls on May 9th 2010 - but here in Ireland and the UK Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday falls on March 14th in 2010.
Our youngest (7) will probably make something at school for his mum - but the others (teenage boys) as usual won’t bother doing anything. I usually end up buying the card and present for my wife for them and they just sign the card. It will have to stop one day.. maybe this year?
For my own mother it’s usually flowers or a plant.
Flowers are always a safe bet for Mothers Day - and what could be easier than ordering flowers......
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Olwyn Murray through to Semi Final via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Congratulations to Ballyhaunis schoolgirl Olwyn Murray - who won last night’s All Ireland Talent Show heat - and is now through to the semi final.
The judges put her in joint third place but the public vote was enough to give her the the win. A good performance - but she will probably have to do even better to win the contest.
See Olwyn singing live on the show here (22 minutes in) (only viewable until Feb 14th)
See more about Olwyn Murray here...
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Support Olwyn Murray - All Ireland Talent Show via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Ballyhaunis Leaving Cert student - 16 year old Olwyn Murray is through to the next round of the RTE All Ireland Talent Show on 24th January 2010 at 6.30pm . The show will be coming LIVE from Dublin . Find details here of how to vote (available from Sunday at 6pm )
It is probably too late - but anyone can apply for free audience tickets by calling 01 4480500 or email audience@tyrone-productions.ie
Olwyn is one of 8 contestants left in from the West - and the only one from Co Mayo. She doesn’t seem to have got the online publicity going - not like some of the other contestants. The Leaving Cert is probably taking priority. Hopefully the publicity in the local papers and radio stations will work just as well for Olwyn.
She is up against a “novelty” gay band fronted...
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Schools can re-open on Tuesday via Ballyhaunis Blog,
Batt O’Keefe has seen sense at last and reversed his instruction to keep all schools closed until Thursday. He has said today that schools can now open if local management think it is safe to do so.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/okeeffe-to-allow-schools-to-reopen-tomorrow-441478.html
The majority of roads around here are safe - some are still icy but passable. It will be interesting to see if Ballyhaunis Community School will decide to open - hopefully they will?
Over in the UK - conditions are worse and some schools are closed - but the UK Education Secretary Ed Balls is encouraging schools to open and not focus on the negatives. He said schools need to “take a balanced view and not to overstate risks like slipping in the playground, or having slightly less...
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