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President of Poland is going to visit Ireland on February the 17th.

This Saturday, Ireland will have a pleasure to guest a great or a little father of all “true Poles”, a president of Ceathrú Poblacht na Pholainn (the 3d, a period between the 1989- 2005 was bad and a full of communistic enemies of Poland).

This little man is worldwide well known for his spectacular actions:

1. Baning a legal gay and lesbian parade in Warsaw (while he was a president of Warsaw), which was against the Polish law.
To be honest I am not a big supporter of gay and lesbian movements but they had right to organize the parade.

2. Canceling the summit with German prime minister and French president due to a ironic critique in the German newspaper. Official cause of canceling the summit was an upset president’s stomach.
3. Calling journalist “monkey in red” during the press conference.

4. Saying “spieprzaj dziadu” (“f..k off you f…ing old bastard”) to an old homeless man once in Poland during his presidency.

5. Ignorance (ok, maybe slip of the tongue) of Polish national anthemsinging “from land of Poland to land of Italy” instead of a proper original version of words “from land of Italy to land of Poland” , which is meaningful considering a massive emigration. To be honest, I am not so sure, was it hi or just his brother - prime minister. They are very similar to each other (they are twins).
And what is his biggest fault, at least in the relation to Polish emigrants:

6 . calling Polish emigrants in UK and Ireland “born losers” or “feckless” (according to English newspaper). You will probably ask why? The answer is very simple… Poland under rule of the twins (president and prime minister) would have been a paradise, catholic, far right land of clear wealthy and rich Poles, but unfortunately present Poland still suffers high rate of unemployment (it is decreasing due to massive emigration), killing taxation and growing expenses of the bureaucracy of our authorities.

The rate of the emigration is very inconvenient to Kaczynski brothers (p. minister and president) and to their imagination of national socialistic Poland – one folk, one idea, one though and one (or two, twins) father of the nation.

There is a big anger among the Polish emigrants. They blame both brothers and their party in rule for wasting time on hunting spies, communistic collaborators and destroying the worldwide regard for Poland.

Will there be a demonstration of Polish emigrants in Dublin during visit of the president?

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Nomination for The Irish Blog Awards

irish blog awardsYesterday I learned (thanx to Primalsneeze) that my blog has been nominated for Irish Blog Awards in two categories: best photo blog and best newcomer blog.
Apart of the question will I win in those votes I am just glad to know that my blog (English eddition in fact) has some readers and viewers and a lot of feedback on the questions and issues I describe. I must admit I have never before suspected that due to my bloging activity I got some opportunities to became a journalist/columnist for both Polish and Irish press. Thanks to that blog I got 4 columns and pages in Polski Hearald (Friday Evening Herald supplement), got an interview on air of Today FM, and give my opinions to the journalist of Irish Examiner and Metro Eireann. Moreover, thanks to being a bloger I have discovered so many other blogs and people in fact.

Go raibh maith agat! Bhi sé go hiontach!

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Pros of waking up early - sunrise sky over Borrisokane

In my photo archive I have just found one photo I took on the road from Nenagh to Tullamore, just in the outskirts of Borrisokane. We were on the way to work (had some digs in Tullamore), and I forced my colleague to stop our van.

I like the the moment just before the sunrise, when the clouds are lighten by a sunbeams that are coming from behind of the horizon. (click to enlarge)
ireland, sunrise, irlandia

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Nenagh - St Mary’s of the Rosary - Beauty of the neogothic churches

While I was working on Polish web community portal www.nenagh.pl I took many pictures to add them to the text content of that service. Yesterday I was dealing with those photos and I have realized that I had some good shots of catholic church St Mary’s of the Rosary, the tall one in Nenagh.

Here are those photos (click to enlarge):

nenagh, ireland, irlandia, church

nenagh, ireland, irlandia, church

nenagh, ireland, irlandia, church

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Backwater or virginland? Thinking about my own business in Ireland

As I wrote a couple of days ago, Ireland is an Internet backwater despite of being a European centre of great IT and computer brands.

I haven’t changed my opinion about the very low quality of Internet services, especially about the helpless quality of Vodafone 3G. The reality in the other parts of IT is not good as well. In Ireland, Internet as a medium seems to be a unwanted child by many, especially by some of the local authorities - in example Nenagh.

Have you visited official Nenagh website - www.nenagh.ie? Apart of some usefull information about accommodation and buses it is not a convincing promo of the town. There is not so many photos showing tourist attractions in the town and its vicinity.

Apart of small forum on boards.ie Nenagh has no local coumunity web service (we call it portal in Polish) - kind of a local newspaper and forum online.

It concerns not only Nenagh and not only Irish community but Polish too. Apart of some good - let me call it - nationwide “Polish in Ireland” webservices there is no local ones that aim at the Polish communities of small towns - like Nenagh.

Ireland compared to Poland, seems to be a virgin land to start its own IT or electronic media business. For the last couple of weeks I have been thinking about that very much and about setting up my private, self-employed business.

Meanwhile, for the last 10 days I have been working (mostly at night) on a first community webservice (Portal) of Polish community in Nenagh. Due to my experiences in bloging (I got lot of e-mails full of thanks for providing information about Carlow and Nenagh) my intention is to provide as much as possible up to date data and information about Nenagh and to create a web platform that will assemble Polish community and maybe will help in its integration in Irish society.

It is still under construction, and it needs about one or two weeks of work, but the service is operating and providing some useful information for local Polish community. Check this out: www.nenagh.pl

It is based on Drupal 5.1 engine.

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