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Jun 28, 2011, 8:12 pm
http://www.shelltosea.com/content/peoples-forum-ten-years-corrib-gas-great-gas-whom
PEOPLES’ FORUM
TEN YEARS ON; CORRIB GAS – GREAT GAS FOR WHOM?
Friday 1- Saturday 2nd July
Retrospect and Prospect
VENUE: INVER COMMUNITY CENTRE
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Jun 23, 2011, 6:00 pm
When I was getting tests in the hospital following a complete health breakdown caused by my recklessly pushing the boundaries in an attempt to will myself normal again, a consultant put me under pressure to agree to see a well-known psychiatrist. I agreed with reluctance, but wrote to him as soon as... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2011, 8:16 pm
‘Autism Speaks’ is a U.S.-based charity which has the stated aim of “funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families”.
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Jun 7, 2011, 7:25 pm
For those who expressed an interest, I received my copy of With Casement’s Irish Brigade in the post, I am thoroughly enjoying it and expect to write my review very soon.
This weekend, I had a throwback to my days of chronic insomnia. To elaborate, sleep dysfunction is one of the main symptoms of... Comment - Like
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May 12, 2011, 7:18 pm
For M.E./Fibro Awareness Day 2010, I wrote a piece entitled In Denial, in which I described some of the methods used to discredit M.E. patients. In the wake of a medical breakthrough which linked M.E to a retrovirus, and the starkly contrasting PACE Trial, which purported to show that a complete rec... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2011, 10:22 am
Fibromyalgia Galway reports that fibromyalgia has been recognised as a Disabling Disease, meaning that those affected are now able to claim Disability Allowance. A member of XMRV Global Action further clarifies that M.E. has also been recognised as a disability as of 11 April 2011 and a medical exam... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 6:27 pm
The doctor in question has no expertise with M.E., or neurology, or cardiology, or virology, nor does he have anything constructive or useful to say in his letter to the Irish Medical Times, posted online on 15 April. The good doctor does have a degree in psychobabble, however, and he’s determined... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 12:20 pm
Via the Irish M.E. Trust: the Irish Blood Transfusion Board website now shows that a ban on blood donations from people who currently have M.E./C.F.S. or have had it in the past has been in place since 9 August 2010. This means that Ireland took this step before the U.S. or Britain. The Irish M.E. T... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 7:18 pm
While I wait for With Casement’s Irish Brigade, I’ll get back to some of several talks I attended during the last few months. Specifically, I’ll try to cover some of the memorable series of lectures that accompanied a major exhibition of Sir John Lavery‘s works hosted by the Hugh Lane Galler... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2011, 6:12 pm
Hello,
We need your help. Last week, the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee met to discuss the future of medical coding in the United States. The ICD-9-CM stands for the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, and is the US government’s off... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2011, 9:17 pm
A Professor of Sociology tells us that social isolation can be the most distressing aspect of chronic illness. This point is debatable in the case of M.E., given that many patients relate that the worst part is not being believed, and the social, medical and psychological damage that inevitably ensu... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2011, 11:52 am
As requested, here is a translation of Táimse im’ Chodladh.
Source of text: “Jimmy Crowley’s Irish Songbook”, Cork, Ireland: Mercier, 1986 and Seán & Mánus Ó Baoill, “Ceolta Gael”, Mercier, first ed. 1975 (via Mudcat.org). The second verse is not always used for obvious reasons.... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2011, 7:40 pm
Veering away from sean-nós a little in this post to songs as Gaeilge in general, with a Tipperary bias.
Óró mo bhaidín by Patrick Pearse, a song taught to children. Lyrics.
Éamonn a’ Chnoic, aka Ned of the Hill, a song about Éamonn Ryan who lost his land in the wake of the Cromwellian conq... Comment - Like
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Feb 18, 2011, 6:36 pm
Cognitive behavioural therapy as it should be applied is a therapy which can aid sufferers of many serious illnesses by working through distress and managing the changes imposed by the severity of the illness on the life of the patient. However, some governments have caught at CBT as an alternative ... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2011, 7:22 pm
It is a common misconception that fatigue is a defining feature of M.E. This is not the case: fatigue is a feature of several chronic illnesses, and while it is probably more severe in M.E. than in most, countless symptoms combine and conspire to rob most sufferers of anything approaching a normal l... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2011, 6:23 pm
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Jan 20, 2011, 6:44 pm
In 2009, Whittemore Peterson Institute scientists discovered a significant link between a newly-found retrovirus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV), and the neuroimmune disease, ME/CFS. Their ground-breaking discovery was published in the journal Science, on 8th October, 2010.... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2011, 6:24 pm
Next in the series of reviews of Hollywood films is Last of the Mohicans. This review focuses on the film’s portrayal of native Americans. Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 8:07 pm
pp.159-60:
One morning they received news of a terrible ambush of Cadets, and on arriving at the scene of the ambush Blake found the dead bodies of the Cadets still lying on the road. All their equipment and personal effects had been stolen, and their faces smashed in with an axe. Probably in sever... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2011, 10:22 pm
Summary.
Part I.
Xander Clayton’s Aud (a second edition of which is soon to be released) contains every conceivable detail about the ship, its journey and its crew. His talk was entitled ‘The Casement Ship’. The ship in which 20,000 rifles, 10 light machine guns, 1 million rounds of ammunit... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2010, 5:24 pm
Felix M Larkin gave a short talk in the National Library on Friday about the “Shemus” cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal (1920-1924). “Shemus” was the pseudonym of Ernest Forbes, an English cartoonist who had come to Ireland in 1920 for unspecified reasons and left in 1924 to work for Engli... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 8:12 am
I visited the Alice Milligan exhibition at the National Library of Ireland last Friday. (Note: to view items from the exhibition, go to the link above, click ‘Launch the Online Discover Exhibition’ ->Collection Area->Alice Milligan.) It’s a nice collection, if fairly small, and the best part i... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2010, 6:53 pm
“Markets may not bear a grudge but they know their enemies.” – Financial Times Columnist on the market’s reaction to the death of Kirchner.
On Wednesday, October 27th 2010, the former President of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, died suddenly. A Reuter’s article, published on the 28th, accur... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2010, 5:31 pm
I’ve been ordered requested to link a two-part review of Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins. It is the first in a series of film reviews which aim to deal with certain political themes in Hollywood film. (Warning: graphic violence and strong language.) Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2010, 5:43 pm
Courtesy of The Pipe The Film Facebook page:
The makers of The Pipe want people from all around Ireland to contact them at thepipethefilm@gmail.com so they can make arrangements to screen it where there is demand. The Irish release date should be 3 December.
A screening will take place in the Nerv... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2010, 10:02 am
Back in 2003, I amused myself by writing a parody of Michael Collins (1996) in the style of The Editing Room (“short, satirical Abridged Scripts for terrible popular movies”). Here is the strange result. Apologies for the formatting problems.
1916. It is a dark time for the
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Oct 12, 2010, 3:57 pm
I’d like to recommend the Random House Irish language course, Spoken World: Irish (disclaimer: I know the author, Caroline Guerin Nic Craith). It is aimed at complete beginners, and is based on the official standard of Irish rather than any one dialect. Some libraries may have it in stock, but it ... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2010, 3:35 pm
James Connolly was a very quiet man at the time I met him, quiet and tense. He was short and thick-set, with a shrewd eye and determined speech. He proved a genius at organization, and this was lucky, for in Dublin there are no great factories, except Guinness’s, to employ large numbers of ... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2010, 5:29 pm
nighearain.wordpress.com is probably written by a male somewhere between 66-100 years old. The writing style is academic and upset most of the time.
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Oct 7, 2010, 11:50 am
Apologies for the length of time it has taken me to write the promised report, which isn’t as coherent as I could have wished, but should be subject to edits later. As I was only at the evening session, I’ll start with that and write up the rest in another post.
Leo Keohane’s talk was entitle... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2010, 3:24 pm
“The National Graves Association and the Save 16 Moore Street Committee cordially invite you to an information meeting on Thursday 14th October 8pm at Wynns Hotel, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin. It is essential that as many people as possible attend this event. TDs, special guests and relatives of... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2010, 10:04 am
For a long time I believed there was no group more wretched and abandoned by mainstream medicine than children with autism and their families.
However, after reading the magnificent book Osler’s Web – Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic by Hillary Johnson I have foun... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2010, 2:53 pm
Professor Simon Wessely has worked for many years to discredit M.E. and Gulf War Syndrome as physiological illnesses, often using extremely ugly tactics. In 2000, Wessely authored a “Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care” which was subsided by the UK Department of Health. This stated that M.E. ... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2010, 4:22 pm
Niall Hartnett has been released from Castlereagh prison after 118 days in prison. According to the Shell to Sea website, Niall was sentenced to six months for “putting his hand on Garda Egan while Garda Egan was pulling out of a fellow protestor whose leg was caught on Shell’s illegally con... Comment - Like
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Aug 7, 2010, 3:13 pm
The Irish feature documentary The Pipe, directed by Risteard O’Domhnall, has been officially selected for the Real to Reel section of the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, which takes place from 9th – 19th September.
This emotional documentary chronicles local farmers and fisherm... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2010, 7:03 pm
The 2nd annual Roger Casement August Gathering was held in the Mount Brandon Hotel, Tralee on Monday 2 August 2010. I attended some of it during my stay. (Tralee is somewhat dead; the country surrounding Daingean Uí Chúis is lovely, but best avoided during tourist season, I think.)
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Jun 2, 2010, 9:35 pm
Last Sunday, Newstalk’s Talking History had a special edition on T.E. Lawrence. As I was on the go at the time, I couldn’t take down any names, but there were some interesting speakers, and much good discussion. What I waited for in vain, however, was some acknowledgement of LawrenceR... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 9:06 am
Why is it important to raise awareness about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)?
by Nicola K. Reiss MSc, MA. 12/05/2010
Why am I making such a fuss about this disease and why should you listen to me? The first reason is that this is an illness, most likely caused by either an enterovirus (like polio) ... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2010, 9:39 pm
Coneycat on Livejournal wrote a blog post about the tendency of some people (often women) to berate others for complaining about what they deem “First World problems”. The problem being that problems are problems, and feeling guilty about having them doesn’t have the slightest effe... Comment - Like
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