saint patrick's day Archives

Science

Tiny meteorite puts a huge dent in the Lunar surface

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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A tiny meteorite has made a huge impact on the Lunar surface and NASA is currently hunting for it.

Entertainment

15 year old student gets the chance to redesign Google’s logo for a day

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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A 15 year old student from Donegal in Ireland has won the 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition. Her version of the Google logo will appear on google.ie tomorrow

Mobile

“Made for the iPad – 1,200 years ago” – the ancient Book of Kells is released for the iPad

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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One of Ireland's national treasures, the 1,200 year old Book of Kells, as been digitised for the iPad for the first time. We were at the app's launch

Social Media

Céad míle fáilte Twitter, welcome to Dublin

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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As Ireland celebrates St. Patrick's Day Twitter's Ireland staff set up the company's office in Dublin.

Ireland's 2012 Doodle 4 Google winner, Patrick Horan

Web

One school in Ireland keeps creating winning Doodles 4 Google

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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St. Munchin’s College's Patrick Horan wins 2012's Doodle 4 Google Ireland competition - the second win for the Limerick Secondary School.

Web

How to watch, follow and game this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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People around the world will be able watch Dublin's St. Patrick's Day Parade live online this year. RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster will be live-streaming the parade through their free international on demand player.

Gaming

Angry Birds St. Patrick’s Day special, fun but still very, very annoying

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Here in Ireland we will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in the usual web (we’ll let you guess what that is) but if you can’t make it to Dublin for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade then you can take your frustration out with the Angry Birds St. Patrick’s Day special.

Mobile

St. Patrick’s Festival Android and iPhone apps released

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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iPhone and Android users will be able to watch live streaming video Dublin City’s St Patrick’s Day parade thanks to their updated iPhone and Android apps.

Social Media

Tweeting as Gaeilge: Social networking and the Irish language

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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What place does Irish hold in the social media age? Is it being drowned out on Twitter or Facebook by English or will social media cultivate the language?

Web

What’s happening online for the 2011 St Patrick’s Festival

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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You would think that the Irish would have little reason to celebrate the son of a European tax collector but, come March 17, that is just what the country, and the world, will do. To find out what is happening online we spoke to the organisers of the 2011 St Patrick’s Festival to see what digital events are planned this March.

Brains Byte Back

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You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.