The word 'robot' is derived from the Czech word 'robotnik', meaning serf or servant, as coined by a Czech writer in 1920.
10:12
When the gardai say the victim was "known to them", it means "he had it coming".
14:47
Look who's coming to breakfastdinnerteasupperandsnacks:
The Health Ministry has weighed in her two grammes worth in the rush to blame for the Ambaree gots shot by Dwayne the Insane debacle. Has been suggested that the Gardai should have acted on a warrant on Dwayne Kid that was outstanding but didn't because of the infamous 'lack of resources'. To paraphrase the Ministry: You're looking for someone to blame? Shop around. It's the person's own fault for firing the gun. If Anne Marie hadn't a been out she wouldn't a been shot. The Ministry said there was no point blaming the gardai or anyone else - the person responsible for the murder was the person who pulled the trigger. Who is dead. In police custody. Case closed.
14:51
In the meantime, de leader of de Oirish Peeple, Dr. Right Hon Bertie Ahern, has agreed with cabinet that the time to do nothing has come again:
Earlier, a Government spokeswoman said the Taoiseach did not have any particular initiative in mind on the issue of sentencing in the Dail yesterday, as none is necessary.In fairness to his T-ness, he doesn't mind contradicting himself day to day. I suppose we should all be worried but it's kind of cute, like your dear old granny forgetting to wash herself for a month:
Speaking in the Dail yesterday, the Taoiseach said a life sentence should mean life, adding that he did not think that a term of 13 years served for a life sentence was enough, nor was the 15-year term proposed by the life sentence review group.13:50
Joe, what did the caller say who's brother was shot by a drugs dealer after a row outside the chipper?
14:58
Proof if it was needed that hatred is learned behaviour, not genetic:
Northern Ireland's Chief Constable, Sir Hugh Orde, has lost a High Court bid in Belfast to have the leading loyalist, Ihab Shoukri, returned to prison.15:00
Which doctor? Remind me not to go to him for me annual checkup. Mr D'Insane, 24, died in garda custody in the early hours of yesterday morning even though he had seen a doctor three times in Coolock Garda Station and was treated in Beaumont Hospital.
18:02
They slapped it to Slab Murphy. Sooner 400 of them than me. I wouldn't want to end up with a nailbar in my face.
Up to 400 gardaí, PSNI, customs officers and military personnel from Northern Ireland and the Republic were involved in the search.18:07
About a dozen properties have been searched in what is described as one of the biggest ever cross-border raids.
At one stage, an area around the family home of Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, allegedly a former IRA chief of staff, was sealed off.
The cops applied for search warrants. 'Twas all logged and filed and duly noted. The file room was burgled a few hours later and the files removed before they were to swoop over Slab's farm. It's an invasion really, one Republic flung upon another, one statelet backing up the armed forces of another. Spies and incursions. Chief of Staff and Chief Superintendent.
18:14
Minister for Accepting Cheques says:
I thought the money came from a fundraising Progressive 25 game. I was just a postman.22:32
Taxes of Evil:
Gardai in Dublin have launched a murder investigation following a gangland-style shooting in the Kilmainham area of the city early this morning.
