Month: August 2007
Were Bog Bodies human sacrifices?
An article in the September 2007 edition of National Geographic puts forward some new theories to explain these...
Mystery skeleton trapped in Iceberg
Here's a story from June that I let slip by me - just saw it today. Marine scientists...
St. Patrick be damned: snakes now on menu in Keady, Northern Ireland
It's funny what makes the news. One minute you're indulging in some perfectly normal, common-or-garden domestic violence in...
Iceland to stop whaling
Result! One country down, two to go. Norway and Japan are the only two countries left flying in...
The Music of Ruairi Byrne
We stumbled across Ruairi's tunes on trig.com earlier today and heads at Blather Towers have been sagely nodding...
Getting Naked for (or against) Climate Change
Spencer Tunick, the photographer who has inspired thousands of people to strip naked in the name of art,...
The Westboro Baptist Church Would Like To Take You To A Gay Bar
Ah the Westboro Baptist Church - funnier than a Birmingham Jihadist and twice as mad as a Jehova's...
Early Irish Brewers – Bronze Age Beer!
Ireland's bronze age folk may have been as fond of their 'pint' as people are today, according to...
Save the Langer, Save the World
Blather favourite 'Heroes' is, apparently, coming to Ireland. A recent visit to the set of the next series...