I'm really ticked off at the moment with AIB and in particular AIB Merchant services.  Every time you look deeper into the bureacucracy it reveals...

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Received as a gift, I look forward immediately to devouring this book as an avid Pixies fan. With the exception of a foreward written by...

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Matter is the latest in Ian M. Banks Culture novel. It follows the usual format for Culture novels: weaving a very personal story into a...

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I have selected gardens… whose design clearly illustrates a particular period of garden history, and whose plantings demonstrate an almost obsessional love of plants and the surrounding Irish landscape irish gardens by olda fitzgerald The...

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What distinguishes Ian M. Banks's novel is the shear scale of the universes he creates. He paints a picutre not just of the his characters...

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book review - food for free At €17.60 - this ‘life enhancing classic' could nearly buy you a good meal and a glass of fine wine… In the scheme of things it's pricy. But is it well worth it? From revealing the...

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T photo credit: houseoftext My 3 primary school going kids got their book lists for next September a week or so ago and having learnt my lesson from previous years of leaving their purchase till August, I decided to get it all done and dusted...

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Fantastic UK based printer. Great label design tool, best prices and I received tiny round gold labels in 3 days.

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One of the best things about living in Ireland is the availability and choice of butchers.   This was simply not an option when we lived in the US and we ended up having to buy the dubious supermarket meat.  We've lived in three towns in Ireland now...

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