Customise your IKEA furniture!

Check out www.thisismykea.com an online store selling custom graphics which allows you to customise your IKEA furniture! Maybe not for everyone but if you fancy something a little different it could be good 🙂

Email Campaign?

I got a letter addressed to my current dwelling and not me today from a well known estate agent so decided to send my own spam back 😛 Hi Nicola, I received a letter in the post today about some rental tenant thingy, didn’t really read it actually and was about to feed it to […]

Commercial Tax Renewal Heads Up!

There always seems to be some issue every time I go to the tax office. I’ve had to get a declaration stating an Astra coming from private tax to commercial when I bought it was for commercial use, so had to go to the Garda station to get a form stamped etc, that was fine. […]

€0 Rate to Check Inflate! Free Tyre Gauge!

Here’s a nice freebie, get a free tyre gauge here: http://tyresafety.eu/order to easily check and keep your tyre pressure at the correct levels!

Tyre Blow Out!

Watch in HD here!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh3WEUWL0kM&fmt=22 4 New Nokian W+ tyres, driven less than 40 miles/60km and a risky blowout! After fitting, I didn’t adjust the pressure from what the fitter prescribed and drove from Sandyford, to Dun Laoghaire, then from Dun Laoghaire to the applegreen on the N7 just passed Rathcoole (less than 50km total) […]

Truck Overturned on M50 Flyover Spills Sand to Southbound lanes

Truck Overturned on M50 Flyover Spills Sand to Southbound lanes Quick post just publishing a video taken today with my dash cam on the M50 after a truck overturned on the N7 outbound with a load of sand. The sand spilled over onto the lanes of the M50 southbound below. It’s just lucky it wasn’t […]

Google Street View Hits Ireland!

Google Street View is now Live on Irish maps, after a bit of browsing, I’ve already seen the same van twice, in two completely different locations! Some are concerned about privacy but it will have some great uses like familiarising your self with a destination location etc before you even leave the house!

Revenue to clamp down on VRT workaround.

From the Irish Times it appears that Revenue are clamping down to cut out the trick of getting a vehicle into Ireland with the minimum VRT price by converting to a commercial and then back to a passenger vehicle. DAVID LABANYI Changes to Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) rules for commercial vehicle to be introduced next […]

Be careful who you hire 😉

Two great clips taken from the brilliant show “Trigger Happy TV”. I think a police man actually went over to the guy at the lights in the original footage 😛

Drink Driving Limit Lowered

Last night, the drink driving limit was lowered in the Dáil. From RTE.ie: Thursday, 24 June 2010 08:42 The new lower drink-driving limit was passed in the Dáil last night. Provision for a new acceptable blood alcohol limit of 50mg, replacing the current 80mg, is contained in the Road Traffic Bill. The Bill passed through […]

A Vision of Bruce Springsteen/Tom Jones 😛

On Sunday the 6th of June 2010, after a night of adventurous and whacky dreams, I woke up with a familiar face staring at me out of the bottle of water I keep beside my bed. Bruce Springsteen had appeared! When my eyes cleared, I realised my vision was not but a remnant of a […]

VanTasks tour With Dance Theatre of Ireland’s BLOCK PARTY!

After touring with Block Party in 2009 throughout Ireland and the UK, VanTasks have once again been called into action for 2010. With shows so far in Longford and Bray, Co. Wicklow and more to come including Spain and Italy.

VanTasks tour With Dance Theatre of Ireland's BLOCK PARTY!

After touring with Block Party in 2009 throughout Ireland and the UK, VanTasks have once again been called into action for 2010. With shows so far in Longford and Bray, Co. Wicklow and more to come including Spain and Italy.

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