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Patrick James | September 28, 2010

Intriguing Words – 28th September 2010

Feeling bored? While away a few minutes / hours pondering these types of government by number and decide which type of rule describes best the one we have in Ireland?
Arithmocracy – rule of the numerical majority
Democracy – government by the people as a whole
Isocracy – polity where all have equal power
Oligarchy – rule by the few
Pantarchy – same as democracy
Pantisocracy – Utopian political system wherein all are equal and all rule
Polyarchy (also polarchy, polygarchy, polycracy) – rule by the many or by a number of persons
Sociocracy – government by society as a whole

And just when you thought you’d found the answer to the Irish political situation, here’s a few more – the good, the bad and the plain ridiculous!
Angelocracy – angels
Aristarchy – the most qualified person
Aristocracy – literally the best person
Athletocracy – athletes
Foolocracy – fools
Heroarchy – heroes
Kakistocracy – the worst citizens
Meritocracy – the talented
Mobocracy / ochlocracy / pollarchy – a mob
Neocracy – amateurs
Riotocracy – violent action and disorder

Category: Intriguing Words | Tags: Aristocracy, Athletocracy, disorder, Ireland

Patrick James | June 19, 2009

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Petition To Save Foinse – The Last Irish Language Weekly Newspaper

It has come to my attention today that the Irish language weekly newspaper Foinse may only be in publication for two more editions – on the 21^st and the 28^th of this month, due to a lack of funding. Some of you may remember my post last year on the future of Lá Nua, the daily Irish language newspaper from Belfast, which sadly has since ceased to exist, again due to a lack of funding. Slowly and little by little, the support for Irish language is being destroyed by this incompetent government, but the problem is that while we hear about the “popular” news items regarding their destructive touch, issues such as the Irish language are sidelined and fail to make front news headlines.

While many of us have mixed feelings about the Irish language, we need to put aside our negative associations and realise that the termination of Ireland’s ONLY remaining Irish language newspaper has a knock-on effect for all of us, whether we speak the language or not. It affects our culture, out national pride and our identity and we should not allow that to be destroyed at the hands of an incompetent bunch of idiots – it is not theirs to ransack and destroy, no more than they have the right to build a major road practically next to the Hill of Tara. We have to ask – if this present government thinks nothing of destroying milestones of our culture, be it national newspapers or heritage sites – WHAT IS NEXT? Clearly, absolutely nothing is sacred to them – except their pensions, perhaps!

Our culture was around long before these imbeciles were and will exist long after they cease. Hopefully our language will do so too, but I don’t share the optimism of others out there in this regard. Without support our language will dwindle into oblivion forever!

SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE FOINSE

Category: Language, The Politic Body | Tags: Foinse, gaeilge, Government, Ireland, Irish, Language, news, Petition

Patrick James | March 11, 2009

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Irish & Proud & Troubled Enough… Don’t Represent Me!

Ireland has trouble enough, dealing with its share of the global credit crunch, but in good auld timely fashion there are always those who would come along to drag us further down into the quagmire. I have always been very proud of Ireland and our heritage and carried a heartfelt joy at being Irish, but lately I am finding it hard to hold my head up.

Following the recent renewed spate of violence in the North of Ireland I feel ashamed.

These murderous traitors to the Irish way-of-life, do not represent me as an Irish person nor do they reflect my views. Do these people, who are doing these terrible things, not think that Ireland has enough problems and sadness to worry about with the recession, without pilling more heartache on top of the Country’s concerns?

It’s time that it was realised that the Irish people no longer want violence… that Ireland can sort out it’s differences by other means and that these terrorists no longer represent Ireland nor will they be allowed to be the voice of it’s people!

Category: The Politic Body | Tags: Ireland, Irish, Northern Ireland, Politics, Recession

Patrick James | March 4, 2009

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Recession Ireland: The Twice-Done Country

So we all know what’s going on in the world with economics and who wants to mention the dreaded R-word again !It’s not enough either that everyone is feeling hard-done-by and World leaders have quite nicely managed to cough things up rightly but it seems to me that Ireland has been done over twice by it’s government…

Not so long ago, all the Irish could hear on the radio and read in the newspapers was THE CELTIC TIGER… The economy was booming and the under-lying message was spend, spend, spend… all was wonderful in our bright green wonderland. So good times come and bad times come and after all that is the way of things. We had our moment in the sun and this is our darker hour, so maybe no one should be all that surprised… and that line of thought might be alright if that was what had happened.

THE TRUTH IS: Our economic prosperity was only for the few, like some sort of elitist joke. Certainly, no one I ever met really benefitted from the so-called Tiger! I know I didn’t catch a glimpse of it or even get a sniff of it on someone else! Neither did we have our cake… nor are we ever likely to eat it!

Category: Something Else, The Politic Body | Tags: Celtic, Economics, Economy, Government, Ireland, Politics, Recession, Tiger, Truth, World

Patrick James | February 26, 2009

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Blackout Ireland Launch

Have a look at this extract from Blackoutireland.com Blog regarding today’s important launch of Blackoutireland.com

First, if you have no idea what is going on, you NEED to check out two places. Firstly, BlackOutIreland.com, which should hopefully be online tomorrow. This site, run by somebody with MUCH more free time then me (Ben McRedmond – He will be much more active with this then I will, due to my huge lack of free time with exams, and his over abundance of free time) will soon contain the best source of information on the blackout. Secondly my previous blog post which might answer some of your questions.

Battlestar Galactica… Sky Date – April 15th

Previousily, I posted about the new Battlestar… and I’ve just heard that it’s screening for an Irish audience on Skyone on April 15th… If you’re anything like me and are finding it hard to wait check out the Battlestar Galactica Quiz!

Category: On The Screen | Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Events, Film & Television, Ireland, Quiz, Sci-Fi, Series, Television

Patrick James | March 7, 2008

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International Women’s Day 2008 (IWD) – 8th March

Saturday 8^th March is International Women’s Day. “IWD” is the global day connecting all women around the world and has been observed since 1908, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. Great improvements have been made. We do have female astronauts and prime ministers, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work and have a family, women have real choices. And so the tone and nature of IWD has, for the past few years, moved from being a reminder about the negatives to a celebration of the positives.

A list of events taking place throughout Ireland is available from the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI).

Category: Something Else | Tags: Current Events, Events, International, Ireland, Life, Society, Women, World

Patrick James | February 25, 2008

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Tara destruction… Government on road to ruin

This week an Irish Post poll showed more than 80 per cent of respondents were in favour of halting all construction of new roads around the historic site. In one of the largest responses ever received more than 3,000 people took part. That opposition has been mirrored in previous petitions and online message boards opposing routing a motorway past this historic archaeological treasure.

Against this background the Government’s intransigence smacks of nothing more than sheer bloody-mindedness. It seems Ministers are determined not to be seen admitting they made a mistake. But there is little doubt that the route chosen for the new M3 motorway is a mistake of colossal proportions. It is akin to Britain’s Department of Transport deciding to re-route the M4 motorway so it passed close to the world famous stone circle at Avebury. To make matters worse the Irish Government could have easily ordered the route of the M3 to be altered to ensure it avoided the Hill of Tara but chose not to do so. Instead they decided it was worth risking the destruction of one of the world’s most important archaeological sites for the sake of so-called progress.

Source: Tara Watch