The Rosie View Episode 1

Welcome to the first ever episode of The Rosie View. This is a television review podcast put together by myself and my cousin, Rosemary Mac Cabe. I’ll edit this post tomorrow to add show notes but in this episode we review The Dollhouse, a documentary entitled 100 Years of Youth Hostelling, Psychoville and House. We [...]

Uhoh! Bacardi Breezer firefighting team will be in overdrive

I cannot believe this ad and social media campaign. I think a lot of comments to the post on Jezebel – Bacardi Ad Uses Misogyny To Sell Alcohol To Women – Bacardi get an ugly girlfriend are very interesting, especially those which I will  categorise as the “beauty is not the be-all and end-all” comments. [...]

Community spirit

At the Irish Blog Awards in February I answered a call made by Red Mum. While collecting the award for Best Group Blog for the Dublin Community Blog she invited the audience, especially people from Dublin, to get involved. I volunteered. Note that was in February. I have finally written a post for the blog. [...]

Reasons to be fruitful

Just because we are in a recession doesn’t mean you should put your dynasty building plans on hold. Here are my reasons to be fruitful in reverse order. I’ve been thinking about this for some time and my recent reading of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell made me realise I’m probably not the only one. It’s [...]