Archive for August, 2005
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Just finished watching Niamh Ní Cheilleachair's semi-final race (in the women's lightweight single sculls) on the nifty online video provided at the WorldRowing.com site.
She came fifth in a time of 7:31.32, ahead of the Swiss boat. The first three go through to the A final - and there was a ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
All three Irish crews racing in the repechages have progressed to the semi-finals. More later.
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
A useful article on the Business Week site gives the latest figures for poverty in the United States, with some intereesting additional information.
The numbers in poverty increased in 2004 to 37 million, bringing the rate up to 12.7%. The authors note that It marks the fourth straight increase in the ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
The BCI has signed a new ten-year contract with Anna Livia FM, the independent public service station in Dublin, for the provision of a talk-based, broad format, special interest service in the franchise area of Dublin City.
I was involved in the station for a brief period when I lived in ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Well thank God the first day of racing is over...it is good to open the lungs, get the nerves out the system... and of course to qualify straight to the Semi... We came third in the heat in a PB of 6.57min... Only the second time ever breaking the 7 ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
Some rather annoying, as you might imagine, problems with internet access meant I didn't actually see the race live, and have only now caught up with the results.
Heather and Sinead came third in their heat, meaning they now progress to the repechage tomorrow (Wednesday). They were just over two seconds ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
The Irish men's lightweight pair came fifth in their heat earlier today (that's Tuesday in Gifu, but still Monday where I'm based in Illinois). Heather and Sinead are due to race in about 30 minutes.
I mentioned video previously. This is just available for the last fou days of racing, so ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
Greetings from Ogaki!!! I am getting too used to this heat... I love it! I think yesterday we were rowing in 37 degrees, a big change from Blessington...
Things are really heating up now, so to speak... the racing has started, and the nerves are jumping a little. Niamh raced ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, the fighting in the former Yugoslavia, or in in the Algerian civil war in the 1990s (though the killing of 'media assistants' in that last conflict brings the total past that in iraq, for now).
When ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
Heather and Sinead may not be racing until Tuesday but other members of the Irish squad are already in action. Niamh raced in the heats of the women's lightweight single sculls earlier, coming third. With the first two in each heat (there were four) going direct to the semi-finals, her ...
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