Down With That Sort Of Thing is up and away

Last Wednesday, after another day of protests in Dublin, I decided to start a new blog - Down With That Sort Of Thing. We're living in uncertain, uneasy and unusual times, particularly in Ireland where we're all coming down to earth after the heady days of the "boom-time noughties (or naughties as I like to call them). I'm in a fairly unique position given I work on the corner of Nassau St and Dawson St and over the past few months have had many days interupted by various groups of angry protesteres making their way to government buildings. 

It's not going to be political, it's not going to be from any particular point of view other than my office window. Hopefully it will serve these purposes: 1. to document the protests/strikes happening in Ireland, 2. to provide useful information in advance of protests/strikes (e.g. if there's a bus strike, what services are affected etc), 3. to help me satisfy some of this blogging bug I've picked up at the Irish Blog Awards last weekend.

http://www.downwiththatsortofthing.com/

Goodbye Aya

I was never much of a fan of their food but sushi places are few and far between in Ireland and Im a sushi addict so I gave in from time to time. My last visit was about 2 months ago, I desperately wanted sushi & had precious time to get it so I popped into Aya. For a Thursday night half the conveyor belt was shut off & the handful of cutomers squished to one side. The sushi was the worst ever, most of it was deep fried somethingorother and the sashimi was like skinny smoked salmon. Don't get me started on the state of the wasabi & ginger pots, dirty would be a mild description.

If the recession is good for one thing alone, hopefully it will weed out some of the cowboys that have been skipping through the last decade making a nice living out of mediocre services. Goodbye Aya, the best of luck to all who sailed in her but you shall not be missed by this food-lover.

Penthouses for rent

No photos up of the inside so it must be a dive. But in case you're interested, here's the link http://www.daft.ie/2574359

Fuck the recession indeed.

Transport cuts - who cares?!

Following on from a post at An Spáilpin Fánach regarding the rather quiet coverage of the job cuts at CIE, I decided to have a look around to find out what routes and services would be affected. So far I haven't found very much.

Dublin Bus website: 

CIE website:

So are we going to be finding out the hard way by being left at the bus stop for an hour longer? And what about timetables? The annual re-print was only distributed in the past few weeks, will another lump of cash will have to be doled out on re-printing the? If CIE don't seem to be bothered about the cut-backs how the heck do we expect their customers or the media to be?