No experience required, though good sporting knowledge an advantage particularly an understanding of the Offside Rule.
Good communication skills and infacta command of the English language useful.
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A good memory is essential.
[http://www.recruitireland.com/job/?jobID=10012942]

Here’s what happens when you make a political appointment to a position like Ceann Comhairle (Chairman of Ireland’s Dail) instead of
electing somebody respected on all sides of the house. The man in question is John O’Donoghue and he is useless.

More on this over at twentymajor.net.

On the day of Ireland’s victory over England in rugby’s 2007 Six Nations Championship, that famous group of bright sparks that is Republican Sinn Fein staged a protest.
A protest against foreign games.
This picture says it all.
[courtesy of slugger and The ToryGraph]

You just can’t make this up.
Michael “Looney Loyalist” Stone, he of the recent “I am here to kill Gerry Adams” visit to Stormont, has said (via his solicitor) that his sojourn to the hill equipped with nothing but his wit (and an axe, a garrot, some guns and a handful of nailbombs) was not an [...]

There’s quite a good posting on slugger o’toole today, in relation to the activities (or lack thereof) of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Council’s two-day conference, Building a Human Rights Culture in Northern Ireland, starts today. The NIHRC says its role is “to ensure that the human rights [...]

Slugger O’Toole is reporting on the Irish Government’s plans to remove 2,300 archaic laws from the Statue Book. So, no more dropping suspected theives in deep water attached to millstones, or charging Frenchmen discriminatory taxes.

“We signed (in favour of the pipeline), but they didn’t tell us what it was about.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E2E7117F-1390-4BD1-808E-EF06CD260F42.htm

Looks like the Irish Government have been up to their old tricks again. Although officially neutral, Ireland allowed itself to be used as a refuelling point for United States military before, during and after the Iraq war. Even today there is a large amount of American military traffic though Shannon Airport. All of this was [...]