Monday

Tuesday 30 January: The Atlantic races toward you through the dirty windows from the sea and the sky, surrounding you, shading you

00:13
Oh, a hangin' is a hanging. No point telling us what your opinion of it is. What's done is done.
00:45
An American trooper with one leg blown off in a vacuous war says chasing up his benefit with the Veterans Association has him running around in circles. 
08:55
Leading US academic Noam Chomsky has said the Irish Government could be complicit in war crimes for allowing the US military to use Shannon Airport as part of its war in Iraq.
When answering questions from the floor, Prof. Chomsky suggested that the passage of US soldiers through Shannon Airport could amount to participation in a war of aggression, which the Nuremburg Tribunal declared to be "the supreme international crime which encompasses within itself all of the evil that follows".
Is the republic a victim of American aggression like the Raq? In that it could never stop them landing in Shannon Airbase even if it wanted to?
08:59
I feel better now that I've stopped indulging in the second-rate trash they call hash around here. 
09.00
1972 British army opens fire on demonstrators, killing 13, Derry


09:02
It's wet outside and the walls are cold. The Atlantic races toward you through the dirty windows from the sea and the sky, surrounding you, shading you. The seventies suck. Then this fucking happens:

A former Marist brother accused of 180 counts of indecently assaulting six pupils of a Sligo National School was found guilty on all counts at Sligo Circuit Court. Christopher Cosgrove, 61, was remanded on continuing bail for sentencing in March. Judge Anthony Kennedy said Cosgrove was undoubtedly facing a custodial sentence. Cosgrove, with an address at Ballyhaunis Road, Claremorris, Co Mayo, had pleaded not guilty to abusing the boys at St John's National School, Temple St, Sligo, between 1968 and 1977.
10.10
1984 DIED: Luke Kelly, singer, musician, The Dubliners