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IT WAS A week when the Irish Water protests intensified, John McNulty lost the Seanad by-election, and Roy Keane released his long-awaited autobiography.
All that, and more, in the week in quotes.
So I got Robbie’s mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail. ‘Hi, it’s Robbie – whazzup!’ like in the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: ‘I can’t be fucking signing that.’
Roy Keane explains in his autobiography how he came close to signing Robbie Savage for Sunderland - but changed his mind.
I will die upstairs in my bedroom with my husband, mother, stepfather and best friend by my side, and pass peacefully
29-year-old Brittany Maynard who has terminal cancer and has arranged her own death for 1 November.
It is not that they don’t want to pay, it is the case that they simply don’t have the money to.
Sinn Féin councillor Eoin Ó Broin after protesters in Clondalkin burned their Irish Water registration packs in a bathtub on Thursday night.
It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s advice to women on looking for a raise. He later apologised for the comment.
Malala will make her first statement on winning the Nobel Peace Prize after school.
Press release after 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai was announced as the joint winner of the prestigious award on Friday afternoon.
Will he legacy be that a little Irish is now enough, and that great proficiency is only required to demonstrate one’s superior fluency to Gerry Adams?
Former head of RTÉ and TG4 Cathal Goan criticises Taoiseach Enda Kenny for appointing TD Joe McHugh as Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs despite not having fluent Irish.
A lot of middle and low income people and I fully support any relief that can be given to them. but to reduce the top rate of tax excludes those people and only provides benefit to those that are better-off in society – and I find that pretty obnoxious.
Campaigner Fr Peter McVerry on what he thinks of the Government’s possible plan to cut the top rate of income tax in Tuesday’s Budget.
For us though, we tend to suffer in silence, or stubbornness. Mortified, we hope it’ll be grand, next week, or next month, or next year, when it will go away. Only it won’t.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny on the stigma attached towards men seeking help for mental health problems.
As a woman, I’m fearful because of the social set up where men are frightening. Women should not have to change their attire because men can’t ‘control themselves’. ‘Boys will be boys’. No, I’m sorry, that’s not the way it works.
Dublin poet and rapper Temper-Mental Miss Elayneous on RTE 2′s Connected programme talking about street harassment.
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Congratulations and a fantastic idea.
I only wish this was around when I was in school.
I spent years typing in basic code from computer weekly for simple games, and there was nobody else doing it at the time and I dropped it after school. Would have taken a different path if this had been around.
Well done, hobby today, career tomorrow.
perhaps something like this could be done for adults too? i know id be interested
@Abi, I just did a crash course in scratch programming, you can download it free from scratch.mit.edu, check out a few videos on how to do it and you can look at what others have made and how they made it, and you can copy and evolve their code, ideas etc.. works a bit like Lego, the more you play with it the better you get. It’s quite basic at the start but you can do some cool stuff once you get good
Fair f*cks to him. Also, there’s Enda Kenny, as usual embarrassing everyone like your cheesy Dad at Christmas dinner.
Well done James. I’ll be bringing my young fella along to the cork dojo in September. he’s only 7 but already made a simple game and a calculator in Python :)
Well done, I’m firmly convinced everyone has their ‘speciality’, be that an academic thing, a caring thing, or an arty thing, etc…all should be applauded in equal measure, all are of equal importance, in the greater scheme of things. This is a superb idea, fair fu.ks to you, you’ll go far and so you should’
A simple solution to a complex problem. Brilliant. Pity this couldn’t be encompassed in the schools curriculum and genuinely teach this stuff to the kids a few times a week, not for an hour a week by someone who’s a few years from retirement and afraid of computers. He’s right, he and others like him are filling a void in our educational system that has been there for years. The trouble is now that he’s doing it, the void will still be left there.
Great idea, we’ll done James.
Great success story congratulations James . Great to see someone who enjoys teaching and passing on a skill that could be life changing for some of the children .maybe the next bill gates is out there amongst them. Continued success for the future
That picture was taken at a special sitting of the CoderDojo which took place in the Dail. We are the first country to hold a “class” in their parliament buildings as far as I gather. CoderDojo is amazing and it’s scary how much some the kids know at them. God help the lecturers in third level when the kids eventually meet them.
Would love to be able to attend something like this. Shame I’m well out of school :(
absolutely brilliant idea and badly needed in Ireland. got to say the pic of cash-in-kenny made me sick because this stuff should be part of the everyday curriculum imo. govt are totally dragging their feet on this to the detriment of Ireland.
I think dojo came from the Japanese meaning of “place to learn” and then coder as in they are training to become “Ninja” Coders. I would imagine it was an interesting process picking that name.
I agree this is a great idea. I think it should be kept outside the education system and sponsored/funded like a charity. This will allow the people running it full freedom to let it develop in any direction it wants. I love the idea that google has given it a facility to use. The kick a kid must get out of walking into that building like that. It gives it a real buzz feeling.
I never thought of it that way, I guess you have a point there Robert, I still think if these folks are giving up their time to fill a void in our education system, the least the state can do is help them, maybe with equipment or premises.
I have to ask, where did you get the name CoderDojo from?
I cannot understand why you got a single down vote, why would people be against such an overwhelmingly positive idea? Does anybody stand to lose anything?
people scrolling down on mobile devices tapping the thumbs up/down by accident, I suspect as much as 50% of the ups and down’s here are unintentional.
Such an uplifting story. Well done and may you continue to grow.
This is a great idea, and it has really taken off. Well done James!
Well done. A brilliant idea.
Would work for all ages
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