The upcoming 2012 Olympics in London is set to give police ridiculous powers to act as a private army for Olympic sponsors.
They will be able to enter homes and confiscate posters or stop people having non-sponsor products attending sporting events.
“I think there will be lots of people doing things completely …

The leader of the Irish Nationalist Party, David Barrett, was on Newstalk last night to chat about his organisation.
Also on the “Coleman at Large” show was Brian Whelan, journalist for the Sunday Mirror.
Whelan has been covering stories about the far right in Ireland. Racists, neo-nazis and all sorts of other …

Following on from our coverage of recent happenings in the crazy psychedelic world of the Irish headshop, we bring you the news that many substances from these stores is to be banned by June of this year.
The substances to be removed from the head shops shelves include synthetic cannabinoids, better …

Sad news came to us yesterday that will disappoint many Irish wildlife lovers. An Irish bred Eagle chick that was only ten months old was found dead. The Eagle is believed to have died after ingesting poison from a dead sheep.
Lorcan O’Toole, from the Golden Eagle Trust, believes the reintroduction …

I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… you’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going …

There have been a few net stories from China in the past week, so here are three that we were most interested in.
Google Hacker found

U.S. authorities tracked down the “Hacker” behind the famous Google attacks last month.
The man, who isn’t an evil Chinese spy, but instead is a freelance security …

Today Italy did something fairly weird. They found a Google Executive and two Managers guilty of privacy violations.
Now, you may think, this is it, finally we’ve caught Google out and their evil plans have come to the surface because no company can be that good…
Well, this whole thing actually stems …

So last night as I was doing boring web based tidy ups, Mr Fonnen turned on RTE’s Frontline.
Usually we don’t watch it. I’ve always felt Pat Kenny is best on radio anyway.
But last night it seemed relevant to our collective interests.
It was about us.
Well, not entirely. It wasn’t a RTE …

Pat Kenny, Sexual Dynamo
I watched the frontline last night. It was suprisingly good. My favorite bit was Bill Cullen. What with his prolific use of the phrases “back in my day” and “kids these days”. He was magnificent. Anyway Bill suggested that we all leave Ireland to get jobs.
Back in …

We’ve been kinda pushed along on this issue this week. You may remember we wanted to sit down and have a serious, neutral discussion about head shops in Ireland.
With the recent attacks on head shops and after seeing a sad post online earlier from a head shop owner about attacks, …