If you are looking for car insurance for a car that is not registered in Ireland, i.e. a car that does not have an Irish licence plate you will not find it in Ireland.
A few years ago when I was a student here it was possible to bring a car to Ireland and insurance it here with a local insurance company, for some reason this has stopped.
I tried to get car insurance for a non-Irish car last year and found that there is no insurance company now offering this. I found it strange and slightly annoying so I dug a little to see what had happened.
It appears that the Irish police have asked the insurance companies now to insure any non Irish registered cars. This is not law, but it seems like the insurance companies instead of acting like businesses are acting like agents to the state. The car insurance industry is turning away business, I would how their shareholders view this bit of compliance? [click to continue…]
I read an article around Easter that let me know about the above YouTube video, written by Tom McGurk in the Sunday Business Post – sorry SBS but I have stopped buying you due to me trying to stop all the bad news getting me down.
Anyway, he normally writes on finance, politics, etc, but that week he talked about this video. I went and watched it, it convinced me that some sugar, (fructose), could be toxic and I decided to put into practice what Robert Lustig argues for. First I started looking at all the food we had in the kitchen, my healthy fruit juices in the fridge to the healthy brown bread. I was amazed at the amount of sugar in all these products, as much sugar in my fruit juice as there is in a can of coke – and I would never draem of drinking a full sugar coke – more on coke and the diet stuff later. [click to continue…]
As can be seen I have not written here for a while, sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say and at others I have too much and saying it would just get me in trouble – some bloggers don’t mind that and even chase it – but I do like a quiet life a lot of the time.
I watched Dragons Den last weekend for the first time in an age. When it was on in the UK I never used to miss it and then it was the same in Ireland, but I seemed to have went off TV for quite a while preferring my TV to come by broadband and watch what I want when I want. [click to continue…]
I watched Brian Cowen just today on the RTE player as during the week I decided I had enough of being lied to by this government. However I read a bit in the paper today where the FF TD’s seem to be quite happy that the “old” Brian is back and fighting their corner.
I watched this arrogant aggressive Prime Minster, and thought – is this best that Ireland has to offer? I know it is not, however this party was voted back into power by Irish people voting for their own greed. Social justice does not exist in Ireland, I have always been very surprised at how right wing most people are here.
I don’t think I have ever wanted a person to suffer as much as I want him to suffer. He sits and refuses to answer the questions and continually justifies everything that he does. What a wanker.
I had a discussion with a friend recently about the student riots in London. He was disgusted by the damage they caused and said that this type of violence can never be justified. I disagreed – as is my tendency.
I have seen more civil unrest this year in the UK and Ireland than I have seen since Margaret Thatcher used her police army against the civil population when they march on London against the Poll Tax and Miners Strikes.
Back then the police were used to stop buses going to London to demonstrate against both issues. However it has to be remembered that governments of all side have used their own police as an internal civil army against their own populations many times during the twentieth century.
This week in Dublin a man was arrested for blocking traffic and protesting against the government’s budget and policies. He used a cherry picker truck to block the road and had hung political posters to his truck. One of the first things the police did was take down the posters, before they had even arrested the man or moved the truck. Is this part of their job to stop posters being displayed to the media? [click to continue…]
Well here we go, I agreed to growing a Mo for Movember. I though what an easy way to just not shave for the month, have some fun, and raise money for a good cause. I though got to the point of wishing for the end of the month to come quickly – my face has been itchy all bloody month.
Please give as much as is comfortable – follow this link to Movember and click at the top left button of either give to me or give to my team. All the money raised goes to help Irish Cancer Society and promote awareness of Prostate Cancer. To date my team has raised more than €1000 – great.
As an added incentive for you to give some money, if I raise more than €500 I will keep the razor going on Thursday and have a completely shaved head. So go for it and give as much as you can. Thanks
So here I was for most of the month, must admit I hate this photo. [click to continue…]
I have not written here for an age, so now that I am on holiday and doing my best to try and not work, here goes.
We are staying in this pension in Bohemia, it is a converted farm house, A and I would both love one, we have looked before we came here – but we are unsure about country living – that would be such a shock to us. The pension is great, large rooms, friendly and for my Irish money very reasonable.
So here I am lying in bed on the best day so far this week. We were busy yesterday and went and bought a new bed frame last night and did not get back in until nearly 9. So I suggested we get a pizza and a DVD.
The DVD was good, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – though I do think the book is much better. The pizza was fine, your usual local stuff, because I was sharing the piazza I decided on some garlic bread and chicken wing. It was the bloody chicken wings that did it.
I was quite lucky while I was a student in that I did not have to stay around during the summer and work, I managed to get away every summer. However I had some problems with storage for my stuff and lost some of my precious books.
I would move out of my apartment some time in June and not move back until Uni was starting back at the end of September. So there was always the problem of where all my stuff was going to live for the summer.
I don’t know what happened but writing for fun stopped some time ago. It used to be easy to just sit down and pour out my mind. But now it is one of the main things in my work life and so maybe there is less fun.
Stop Thinking and Do It
So I have been wondering, thinking, how do I get back into writing again? I rack my brain, lying here on the couch thinking to myself – why don’t I write any more? And eventually the solution comes back to me again.
I would move out of my apartment some time in June and not move back until Uni was starting back at the end of September. So there was always the problem of where all my stuff was going to live for the summer.
