Movember Ireland 2008 – Do Your Bit
Friday, October 10th, 2008Go to ie.movember.com and sign up. Start your own team, join a team or just donate. As usual, it’s for a good cause, but it’s a bit of fun too.
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Giving 5% Of Your O2 Bill To Irish Autism Action Costs You One Text
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
You can give 5% of your O2 phone bill to Irish Autism Action.
When I read about this I thought it was just another scam, but apparently if you are an O2 customer in Ireland and text “Autism” to 50308, O2 will give 5% of your monthly bill (less data and roaming charges) to Irish Autism Action in your county. I really can’t see the downside. I do wonder what other charities have similar deals in place that I don’t know about, but for today I’m more than happy to donate this money to IAA.
It costs you one text to 50308, and to be honest I’m not sure how much this text costs, but it’s a small price to pay to get O2 to pony up 5% of your bill and donate it to charity. There are the usual corporate terms and conditions but I don’t see anything to worry about.
So if you’re with O2 Ireland, and you’re not already using an Affinity scheme to donate to another charity, text “Autism” to 50308 and let O2 donate 5% of your bill to Irish Autism Action in your area.
More Tina Fey As Sarah Palin
Monday, October 6th, 2008Tina Fey must be thanking her lucky stars that Sarah Palin was picked as the Republican candidate for Vice President in the US… These skits are great. I just hope that the Americans don’t get confused and vote for Palin because of how much they like Tina!
My phil-arious new housemate
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Give Us The Night
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Hopefully most of you in Ireland will be aware of this, but it’s worth talking about again and again and again. The government here are again trying to go backwards instead of forwards with the latest changes to the licencing laws with regard to the sale of alcohol. They are trying to move all closing times everywhere back to 2.30am, meaning the entire drinking population of the country will be forced out onto the streets at the same time, and will end up literally fighting for taxis, buses and burgers.
Added to this, they are also trying to close all bars and clubs at 1am on Sundays, apparently to encourage us to show up for work on Mondays…
There are so many flaws in this reasoning that it just makes me angry. Angry enough to go out today and protest about it in front of the Dáil, and write for the first time in my life to my local politicians. These are small steps by me, but part of a bigger concerted effort spearheaded by the great people at Give Us The Night.
If you have any regard for music, live entertainment, DJs, clubs, bars, and the people that work in them you really should spend a couple of minutes writing, phoning or visiting your local TD and raising the issue. The more of us that are heard, the more chance that they will listen.
Aren’t we a bit old to be needing a nanny state?