Douglas Weekly Newsletter - Noticeboard, reviews, local news and views, and local sporting activity from Douglas in Cork.
Cork Radio Station Listings - Radio stations in Cork including licenced, pirate stations, and cable FM radio.
Cork Cable TV Channels - Details of television channels available on Irish Multichannel's MMDS and Cable TV services.
Cork Radio and TV - Lots of information on stations past and present in Cork.
Cork Campus Radio - University College Cork's college radio station.
CUHFM - A weekly radio show on CUHFM 107.8 promising music to "Pick you up and make you feel good."
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin News and Media "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) News and Media
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) News and Media Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And News and Media
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? News and Media We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher News and Media
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker News and Media "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg News and Media When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. News and Media
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe News and Media "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death News and Media
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) News and Media "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore News and Media
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. News and Media If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp News and Media
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller News and Media The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi News and Media
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz News and Media
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) News and Media Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media
