220 Children to get Chest X-Rays
due to the TB outbreak in Cork.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs. But, TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain. If not treated properly, TB disease can be fatal. TB disease was once the leading cause of death in the United States.
TB is spread through the air from one person to another.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 20, 2007
Nostalgia Week at conoroneill.com
Given that this blog is six years old this week and we’ve started reminiscing about the good old days of Engineering in Merrion Street and Earlsfort Terrace, I’ve decided that it’s officially Nostalgia Week here at O’Neill Towers.
Knarf reminded me of Jimmy Jamjars at the gates to Merrion Street. Catherine reminded me of The Jimmy Jamjar Awards. I think Teresa won one in 1991 for the largest number of PFOs of any Engineering student.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 19, 2007
I'm playing GAA like Rooney
So he is only five years old and this was his first ever GAA session.
He reported back that he played hurling and soccer. His Nana from Meath better have a word with him about Gaelic Football.
Next week we are sending him in Kilkenny gear to shake things up a bit ;-)
Bloody hell, now I have two hurlers in the house. Who would ever have thought?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The ArseEnd Moves to Cork!
The Swearing Gentleman has just been offered a job in Cork so it looks like South Galway’s loss is the PROC’s gain with the imminent arrival of The Swearing Lady, TSG and Mini Me. The ladies of Montenotte will be scandalised.
Time to break out the Babycham and Marietta.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Six Years a-Bloggin today!
17th April 2001, I got an account on this thing I probably heard about on Slashdot called Blogger. I just saw it as an easier way of keeping my personal homepage (which I think I started in 1996 on Indigo) up-to-date.
How wrong I was. The second blog post was 7th August 2001.
For the first 4 years, the blog mainly consisted of baby announcements of my friends and my job situation.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Kilkenny to Cape Town
Paul Brennan let me know the other day about a very worthwhile effort by his friend Hugh Bergin. Hugh is doing a motorbike trip from Kilkenny to Capetown. It is a personal trip but he’s trying to raise some money for the charity Self Help. Self Help is an Irish development agency engaged in promoting and implementing integrated sustainable development programmes in rural Africa.
He started his journey late in 2006 and he is currently in the Congo region, still going strong and keeping a diary of his adventure.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Universities belong inside cities
I was a bit sad today to read this from the UCD Alumni office:
UCD will soon be saying goodbye to Earlsfort Terrace and completing the move to Belfield. Generations of students spent their university years at the Terrace and hold fond memories of that time. This year, the last medical and engineering students will make the journey to Belfield and the Terrace will transfer to the National Concert Hall for major redevelopment as a multipurpose concert venue.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Try voting for informed people
Justin has done a great post on Patricia McKenna of the Green Party trying to justify non-vaccination of children on The Last Word radio show. The transcript shows what Cooper is capable of when he puts his mind to it. He slays the idiot and her nonsense.
If your child dies from the side-effects of measles, it’ll be due to you listening to uniformed clueless dimwits like her. Remember that when you are casting your vote.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Quicker than I thought
I’ve set-up a new blog which consists entirely of daily digests of my tweets. So rather than seeing every tweet as a separate feed item, this groups them together into more manageable chunks. You can get to it either via www.conoroneill.com/twitter or www.conoroneill.name
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Daily Tweets turned off
It was an interesting bit of fun but I don’t think the daily Tweet digest was a great addition to this blog. However, if you are still interested in the Tweets themselves, you can subscribe via RSS to the feed here. I may set up a separate simple blog which does the daily digest. If I do, I’ll pop a link here.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 10, 2007