It must be the website with the greatest number of hits – Sex.com – and the sale has just been halted.
The website last sold in 2006 for $14 million and speculation was rife about what sort of money is out there in these hardened financial times for the purchase of popular or distinctive domain [...]
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Critics of the Irish financial system always said that if a banking scandal took place in the US someone was put into the back of a police car in handcuffs. In Ireland this never happened.
Well today it has as at 6.30am this morning Gardai from the Fraud Squad appeared at the Greystones home of Sean [...]
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Just as parishes accross Ireland are struggling with their finances following compensation payouts for sex scandals, a Spanish priest Fr Martin is selling his body in order to raise money.
An hour with Fr Martin will set you back €120 and he is available to both men and women.
I thought I had heard it all and [...]
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If Dan Brown wrote a novel about clerical sex abuse and how it was rampant amongst every rung of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy it would be a breathtaking read but you would put the book down at the end and say that at least it’s a work of fiction.
But is it?
I’m not for one [...]
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Do you remember the dot com bubble bursting? Are you old enough to remember it?, I am and although my great idea never got beyond that I was devastated by the crash.
Devastated?, but how you ask?. My devastation was based on the knowledge that a useless idea is financially worth bugger [...]
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This will probably shock a lot of my friends but a new study has revealed that their wives are better at managing money that they are.
They would say that their wives would blow it all on shoes and handbags but statistically they are wrong just like those men that I know that currently manage the [...]
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Every night before my kids go to bed I tell them a story. Adults wouldn’t believe my tales but kids love them.
Take for instance the time we dug a hole in the garden and ended up in Sydney Harbour or the time we planted the beanstalk tree only to have to cut it down before [...]
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I can’t say that I agree with Winnie Mandela – but how am I to know, I’m just an outsider looking in.
It would appear that Winnie Mandela doesn’t approve of her former husbands status as being a hero for South Africa. Maybe she doesn’t approve of how he brought both sides together rather than throw [...]
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China really is an oppressive aggressive nation but we in the west pander to their ways because let’s face facts they are the worlds only superpower.
They violate human rights and encourage child labour. Just look at Tibet which they claim to be theirs while controlling the Dalai Lama and restricting his [...]
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Interesting financial news from Argentina where it looks like a deal has been done on a debt swap which will enable the South American country to borrow again on the international markets.
Reuters reports from Buenos Aires:
Argentina econ min: SEC may OK debt swap this week
Reuters
BUENOS AIRES, March 7 (Reuters) – Argentine Economy Minister Amado Boudou [...]
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I’m always one to write about the latest gadget but I don’t often write about get fit tools so I make an exception as today I’m reviewing a get fit gadget.
I Know I will bore a lot of people on this topic but I won’t apologise for being a gadget geek.
So today’s must have is [...]
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Iceland is a country with long dark days in winter and long bright days and nights in summer.
As the seasons change and summer is soon upon us there is little chance of this country’s future brightening given that the citizens of this remote island have voted to reject plans to repay Britain and the Netherlands [...]
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I can’t wait. If it wasn’t for my dire economic circumstances I would be booking my transathlantic flight now to get a iPad in the US.
But that is for dreams and the nearest I will get to what is going to be the coolest gadget on the planet will be when I go into an [...]
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You can choose your enemies but you can’t choose your friends, they choose you.
David Cameron must be wishing he had one less friend after Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe backed him in the British General Election.
Funny that given that it was the Tories who backed Mugabe in the early days of the African tyrants rein.
Saying that [...]
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I will never forget Christmas 1984.
A song dominated the airwaves and I bought the single.
I remember the words like it was only yesterday yet it was 26 years ago.
As the words said:
It’s Christmastime
There’s no need to be afraid
At Christmastime, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty we can spread [...]
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This story has been reported all around the world today – it really has hit the headlines.
I have reported on the story quoting the Aljazeera slant on it but also read it from the Israeli viewpoint.
Monaghan Town Council have voted to remove the page from the towns visitor book which the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland [...]
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I remember when I travelled by Ryanair after a 10 year boycott of the no frills airline.
My boycott related to my distaste of uncomfortable travel when for only a few quid more I could travel Aer Lingus which offered a full service airline, frills and all for really not that much more than the discount [...]
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I remember the first time I saw a DeLorean, they are just the business when it comes to motoring, cool really cool.
The street presence that they behold is more than a Ferrari, a Porsche and a Lotus together because the DeLorean is crude, mean and a stainless steel machine.
The Northern Ireland Industrial Development – whatever [...]
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