Old people Rule !

What a week for octogenarian's world wide.


FRENCH actress Emmanuelle Riva age 85 year old ( Bafta winner )

British David Attenborough 86 year old world ( tempeture remarks )

German Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger 85 years old ( resigns as The Pope )

Australian Rupert Murdoch 81 years old ( ditches page 3 girls )

American Hugh Marston Hefner 86 years old ( publicity with 26yo new wife )

American Warren Edward Buffett 82 years old ( hand over to son Howard )

Apps taking over

Apple are making Hugh money from Apps. There are about 49.5 million apps downloaded every day. The price of tablets will fall but Apple will make more money from the Apps. It is starting to turn. The vprice of apps are starting to rise. Here are a few prices to show the days of cheap (€0.79) are numbered.

The book of Kells €11.99
The orchestra €12.99
Omnifocus €35.99
Things for ipad €17.99
Nigella €5.99
Football manager €8.99


30 billion apps downloaded to date (excluding updates)
$5 billion paid to app developers
400 million iTunes accounts

Iraq today

What a mess the Americans made of Iraq. After Mr Bush finished his fathers work of getting rid of Sadam Hussan as President they lost control of the country by getting rid of his Army and Civil service. A lot of the Arms went missing. The country is now an ethnic mess. Iraq is a country with a Shia majority and a large Sunni minority.the Kurds dominate the north of the Country.
The rights group Iraq Body Count said


"IBC said it has now recorded between 110,937 and 121,227 civilian deaths in violent incidents since the 2003 invasion."

"A total of 4,471 civilians died in Iraq's festering "low-level war" with insurgents in 2012, the first annual climb in the death toll in three years, campaigners said today."

"2012 marks the first year since 2009 where the death toll for the year has increased," IBC said in a statement.

Rock & Roll getting old !

Bruce Springsteen, Pink, Guns N'Roses, Ringo Starr, ZZ Top, Thin Lizzy, the Steve Miller Band, Deep Purple, Santana, Status Quo, Robert Plant, Neil Young, Carole King, Paul Simon and Kiss.
This is a list of acts to appear in concert in Australia in early 2013. I'd hate to add up there ages. Boy oh boy are they getting old.

The Richest Irish Citizen, is Indian! Really.m

Who is the richest Irishman in the world !

Well you will be surprised, his name is Cyrus Mistry. Born: July 4, 1968 (age 44) He lives and works in India. He is the chairman of the massive conglomerate Tata – India's largest business the Tata group. The Family own 18% of the group and there share is worth € 7 billion. His father Pallonji became an Irish citizen in 2003 "on the basis of his marriage to an Irish-born national, Pallonji's wife, Patsy Perin Dubash, was born in September 1939 in Hatch Street Nursing House in Dublin. Cyrus, his brother Shapoor and sister Aloo are also Irish citizens by virtue of their mother's birthplace.
Cyrus Mistry is married to Rohiqa Chagla, the daughter of lawyer Iqbal Chagla and the granddaughter of renowned jurist M.C. Chagla. Together, Mistry and his wife have two sons.
He is an avid golfer.

Cooking Season

How many cooking shows can they show on UK and Irish TV channels in December 2012 ? Nearly every night. What am I saying every Morning, noon & night. On different channels. The chefs are house hold names. BBC even has repeats such as Saturday Kitchen on Sunday. Master Chef has three versions Junior, ,professional and celebrity, oh that's four when you count the one for the public. Oh yes then there is the international version's, I've seen an Irish & Australian versions.
Then you get the travel, cooking shows. Nice holidays for the chefs. Then there is the campaigning food shows, Jamie Oliver saving children from school meals ( well ,the turkey twirls ) in then UK ,and USA. "Sustainable fish, vegetables, veal " get a cause and make a food series.
Baking is the new HOT topic for the cooking shows. In a tent in the UK . It's so popular that sales of flower has increased and cake declarations are taking up more space in the supermarkets.
The advice can be interesting on Irish TV were told to put the tin foil on the Brest of the Turkey leaving the legs uncovered as they take longer to cook. In England they advise to rap the legs in foil as you want the breast to have a bronze colour.
Beware there are more to come in the new year, if you can survive the Christmas cooking season.

Getting old

I was watching TV a few weeks ago when I noticed a trend happening. Everyone was getting old. First the Pope was launching his twitter account. He's  85. Mick jagger was in London with the Rolling Stones. He's 69.  Paul McCartney launched a new Album live Kisses, He's 70.  There was a concert for the victims of hurricane Sandy including Bruce-Springsteen ( 63 ) Billy Joel  ( 63 ), the Who's Rodger   Daltry ( 68 ), Rodger Walters of Pink Floyd ( 69 ) . I will stop here, I must be getting OLD.