iPad prices world wide.

Apple The New IPad   16GB USA €396 Au    €426 Uk.   €492 Irl.  €479 Ger. €479 Fr.   €489 These are the price of the new iPad in Junen2012 from Apple online store in each country. You cannot get one direct in India or Chinaw. Buying one in a different can give you small problems such as buying goods etc.

Discovery TV at it again.

You have to question programmes on Discovery channel. Are the real or not ? Operation Repo is just recreations of actual events but you would think they were real documentaries until you read the credits . Now they have a new one. Moonshiners is an American reality-television series on the Discovery Channel that dramatizes the practice of individuals who produce moonshine, an alcoholic beverage that when made and sold without permits and taxes paid is illegal. The alcohol runs to about 180 proof. The series documents their practice, law-evading techniques and life. It looks real but it's not. No alcohol was made. Beware what your watching and don't be fooled.

Fake China

With each week the Irish customs catch fake Tobacco products and imitation products being smuggled into Ireland. This is going on in a bigger scale throughout Europe. Why don't the EU take a case against China under the World Trade Agreement. The Chineese could crack down on the production of these fake goods if they really tried. They are happy to keep this system going undermining the economies of Europe the EU is to slow in attacking this problem and Ireland to small to go against China on its Own.

Post prices ?

Is the cost of posting packets and parcels going to kill ecommerce in Ireland. It is so expensive to post anything in Ireland it is hardly cost effective to buy small amounts in Ireland on the Internet. For example sugarfree.ie sells bars of chocolate on the Net but charges a flat fee of €5. All these small Internet companies have the same problem " the cost of deliveries " . The large companies can spread the costs but are also having delivery cost problems. Amoson UK has free deliveries on the Mainland but charge in Ireland north and south. The post offices around the world are loosing millions and making thousands redundant. They can't square the circle of cheap post with high overheads and fewer posting letters more positing packets and parcels.

Pixel TV

I have noticed a big increase in television program's having people or adds being pixeled out. Children faces for years have been pixeled out and of course dead bodies, especally in news program's. Now you have adds and brands pickled out in shows like American chopper. Faces are gone in program's like Gypsy Weddings and American auctions. It's most used in police and chase program's. Road Wars, Police action cams etc. RTE television have proDuct placement warnings before shows including the Late Late show.the pixeled out will appear on RTE soon.

What's Irish

What is an Irish product Irish whiskey is owned by the French ( Pernod ) Guinness is owned by UK multi-national ( Diago ) Lyons Tea owned by UK multi-national ( Unilever ) Jacobs biscuits made in the UK. Yoplait is owned by the French. It's a very complaced issue. For example McDonald burger meat for Europe is reared and slaughtered in Ireland. Donegal catch is packed in Ireland. Cheese for pizzas in the UK comes mainly from Ireland. So Buy Irish if you solve the problem of origin.

Board of Directors

Why are the Board of Directors so old in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. It has a budget of €24 million a year. I can see that at least three are in there late 70's or Eighties. This is a very responsible positions. Yet it looks like a old folks club instead of a professional institution.