Quotation Of The Week # 12

'What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!'

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotation Of The Week # 11

'Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotation Of The Week # 10

'It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.'

Abraham Lincoln

Absence

Dear reader

I will hit the road and travel until end of June this year. 'Wide Angle' will be off air for this period. See below blog for updates.

Along The Way

Bye for now..

Quotation Of The Week # 9

'We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are...'
Eduardo Galeano

Quotaion Of The Week # 8

'Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.'
Leonardo da Vinci

Quotation Of The Week # 7

'We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves'

Galileo Galilei

Quotation Of The Week Special Edition: Italy's 150th Anniversary 17.March

'I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.'

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Enda Kenny in Washington; Barack Obama surprises

Enda Kenny met with Barack Obama at the White House during the St.Patrick's Celebrations. After performing friendly exchanges Obama confirmed his intent to visit Ireland in May this year. What an eventful month this is going to be since the English Queen Elizabeth II will also come to town. The former will receive an enthusiastic and warm welcoming from the local crowd, the latter less so. He will be loved, she will be respected.

Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Disaster

I keep watching the broadcasts from Japan. I see the pictures. I read the reports. But I am still struggling to comprehend the extent of the disaster. Many lives have been lost. For all advances in research and technology human beings remain vulnerable creatures when nature flexes its muscles. Earthquakes and tsunamis are natural phenomenons that we can predict with some certainty but not prevent from happening.

Quotation Of The Week # 6

'Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day'
Charles Kingsley

General Elections Ireland 2011 - Results and Opinions

See: results

The dust has settled. The Irish electorate voted for change. Fine Gael (FG) and Labour (LAB) have formed a coalition government. Fianna Fáil (FF) and the Greens got a hammering. That are the facts. But what are the implications?

Quotation Of The Week # 5

'Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least'
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

Quotation Of The Week # 4

'Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim'
George Santayana

Quotation Of The Week # 3

'Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?'
Jean Harlow

General Elections In Ireland

This blog now deserves its first proper article. It coincides with the upcoming general election in Ireland on the 25/02/2011. The campaign has just entered its final week. The most likely outcome is a coalition government comprised of Fine Gael (FG) and the Labour Party (LAB). There is also a growing possibility that FG might me able to achieve an overall majority in the next Dáil Éireann (first chamber of the Irish parliament). The once mighty party Fianna Fáil (FF) will fight with Sinn Féin for third place. This would be a landslide in Irish politics.

Quotation Of The Week # 2

'What I tell I tell for precisely what it is'
Walt Whitman

Quotation Of The Week # 1

'Ego cogito, ergo sum'
(I think, therefore I am)

Rene' Descartes