Ask Ireland - Ask Ireland provides access to Irish government agencies and departments, with information on investing, working or travelling in Ireland.
An Garda Siochana - News, information, statistics, careers and history.
Election Database - View Irish election results graphically and predict future election results by altering party support and transfer patterns. Includes Dail, N.I. Assembly, Euro and Presidential election results.
Teagasc - The national body providing integrated research, advisory and training services to agriculture and the food industry.
Infrastructure - Information and maps on the physical and social infrastructure of Ireland. Includes employment and sectoral information on companies.
North/South Ministerial Council - Aims to develop consultation, co-operation and action within the island of Ireland. Includes information about meetings, publications and contacts.
Southern & Eastern (S&E) Regional Assembly Ireland - Providing information on tourism development enterprise and investment agriculture infrastructure in south, south west and eastern counties of Ireland.
EU Cohesino Fund - Information on EU cohesion fund water and waste water projects, and road development and improvement projects in Ireland.
Valuation Tribunal - Handles all appeals against rateable valuations on commercial property throughout Ireland.
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Government "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Government
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Government See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Government
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "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) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Government Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Government
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Government "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Government
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Government A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Government
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Government
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Government
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Government "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Government
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Government Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Government
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Government Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Government "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Government
