Category Archives: Ireland


Lake Garadice 2008 (triathlon number 2)

June 4, 2008 – 6:00 pm

On Sunday last myself and big Frank borrowed my mum’s car (as it has a hitch) and drove across to Leitrim with our bikes and butterflies in our bellies. Frank did the same race last year and said he really enjoyed and it was my first open water race. This was meant to be my […]

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Monster Commute

April 19, 2008 – 4:18 pm

Late February of this year I started back working for Karova. As I lived in Dublin at the time it meant a monster of a commute every week, staying at a friends during the week and coming back to Dublin at the weekends. I still do the same commute but I now have my own […]

By philroche | Also posted in karova, Wales | Comments (2)

IWTC 2008 - resounding success

March 4, 2008 – 12:03 pm

Last weekend I spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the Irish Web Technology Conference in Dublin. I’ve only been to one other conference (@media 2005) before and I have to say that IWTC 2008 blew it out of the water. The main reason for this is the focus on technical topics. I enjoyed all of […]

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Another site that annoys me - motortax.ie

February 7, 2008 – 3:37 pm

My motor tax is due for renewal so I phoned them up and requested a tax renewal form with pin number so I could renew it online. It arrived but without the pin of course. I phoned them today and asked if I could have the pin over the phone - no. She said just […]

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Irish Web Technology Conference 2008

February 1, 2008 – 1:59 pm

It’s now official. I am returning to Karova at the start of March. I’ll have more news later on my future role but I am excited to be going back and focussing on Karova’s projects and products.
I have a few days off in between jobs so I’ve decided to go to the Irish Web Technology […]

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Silly Season

December 21, 2007 – 11:26 am

Silly season has well and truly begun now. It’s the frist time I’ve been back in dublin for the whole christmas in about 5 or 6 years. Fun will be had - and lots of it.
I treated myself this year and bought myself an eeepc. It looks pretty sweet so I can’t wait to put […]

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Time off for a car loan - cigoL hsirI

November 12, 2007 – 12:01 pm

I am completely perplexed and baffled at the phone call I have just had. I applied for a car loan last week as I’m looking to upgrade once the burden of mortgage payments is lifted (fingers crossed this will be in the next month or so). Today I got a call saying I was approved […]

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1967 aching mammaries

August 20, 2007 – 8:48 am

I’ve been back in Ireland for about 4 months and I’ve been trying to get fit and in shape for about 2 and a half of those. I’ve been playing ball and gyming it up as much as I can. On my week off I ran (12km) quite a few times too.
I read last week […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, training | Comments (5)

Where’s clown number three

July 11, 2007 – 3:28 pm

What in the name of all things XML have I been up to. Well as y’all have probably gathered, I’ve been relatively offline, what with my new job. Trying to get settled in Ireland, trying to sell my house in Wales and generally trying to get my shit together.
I’ve been going to the gym alot […]

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Back under my mums wing

April 10, 2007 – 4:13 pm

I was away for close to four years, three of which were in the UK and one in Australia. I now find myself back in my mums house. It’s only temporary until myself and two buddies move into a friends house for at least a year (the house owner [Dan ] is on a […]

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