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The Jack and Jill Childrens Foundation - A registered charity set up to help young children who are born with or develop brain damage, and who suffer severe intellectual and physical developmental delay as a result, and their families. Explains the work, provides contact details and a form for offline donations.
The Barretstown Gang Camp - An operation which offers life-enhancing programmes for seriously ill children, and support for parents and carers. Includes map, history and donation information.
Barnardos  - One of the largest and most active organisations working for children in Ireland, offering information on activities, relevant current topics and ways to help, as well as contact details.
CARI Online - An organisation providing therapy to children who have experienced sexual abuse, and support services, including counselling, to families and groups affected by the abuse. A telephone helpline is offered and training and information services provided, dealing with the effects and dynamics of child sexual abuse.
The School and University Internet Awards - Awards prize money to students in primary, secondary, and third-level school who develop winning Web sites. Includes general information, rules, prize details, sponsors, and organisers.
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Since its completion, it cost a fortune The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Organisations Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Organisations Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Organisations Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 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 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) Organisations 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Organisations Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Organisations Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Organisations "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken 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) Organisations After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Organisations University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Organisations "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Organisations To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Organisations When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Organisations "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Organisations I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Organisations "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organisations For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Organisations
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