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As I said in a recent tweet (wow, I’m so up to date… like, using Twitter, man! That was even on CSI!), … today I was a bar manager - tomorrow I’m teaching 5th class in a local primary school (just standing in, “natch”), tomorrow night, I’m a footballer (getting better at that recently), on Thursday I’m a DJ in (the same) local bar - (YES, my Outlook calendar is gone into overdrive) … may be spreading myself a little thin (hah!)… but hey, at the weekend (well, Friday excluded), I’m free!

So… all that, combined with my recent conversion to “single” status means that after over 5 years of absence from “Boards Beers” (pissups organised by the ‘citizens’ of Boards.ie), this Saturday, I’m going to Boards Beer 19 in Dublin (and I’m dragging my brother along too)…

I’m totally assuming, of course, that it’ll look just like this picture (- that’d be me in the middle)…

Should be fun

By all means, draw your own conclusions, - but it would seem to me that Jim Corr, guitarist with Dundalk based band “The Corrs”, has far too much time, money and Internet access on his hands.

In a radio interview on Today FM’s “The Last Word” yesterday, he went on a well rehearsed rant about the Lisbon Treaty and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Apparently, he got on the air thanks to his buddy Tony Fenton (pictured with him here).

During his rant, he claimed that:

The Bush administration, with the help of the intelligence community - the CIA, etc., carried out the atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania

Explosives were planted in the WTC towers in order to ensure that they “collapsed neatly into their own footprint”

Rudolph Guiliani, then mayor of New York, covered it up by shipping evidence (including steel from the towers) abroad

None of the hi-jackers were actually on the airline passenger manifests and at least eight are still alive and free today

We are headed towards a “new world order” culminating in a single world government which he said would be a “scientific dictatorship” - starting with Mexico, Canada and the US merging (and using one currency, the “Amero“) - and those later merging with Europe and Asia.

It all smacks quite clearly of some very well known conspiracy theories which have been circulating on the Internet for the past 6 years (including one in a Google Video which he referenced) - most of which a lot of us have heard (and laughed at, in fairness) before and most if not all of which have been comprehensively debunked.

Oh!- and he also claimed, in a roundabout way, that the Lisbon Treaty will mean the eventual introduction of the death penalty in the E.U.

They’re also talking about this on boards.ie and Damien blogged about this earlier today (but the YouTube video he referenced doesn’t have the full interview)…

So here’s the full interview now:

Oh and Jim’s not alone either…! Won’t we all be kicking ourselves if 10 or 20 years down the line, he’s found out to have been correct all along? Ray D’Arcy said on air today that if that does happen, he’ll publicly apologise to Jim Corr for not believing him but added that he didn’t think at that stage anyone would care about the Louth man’s opinion.

Do we care now? Whatever about Jim’s “sensational” outburst - everyone should get themselves properly informed - there’s only two weeks left before the country goes to the polls in the Lisbon Treaty Referendum.

If only this was around 10 years ago when Boards.ie was starting!

Via boards.ie comes the sad news that Jeremy Beadle, TV prankster, star of “Beadle’s About” and “You’ve Been Framed”, who had been suffering from leukaemia for some time, died today after slipping into a coma following a short battle with pneumonia.

May he rest in peace.

● Full story from Sky News, with video and photos
● Story from BBC News
● Story from ITV Entertainment

Some might say it’s in slightly bad taste but I’m sure Jeremy himself found this classic Spitting Image song hilarious, despite it’s name (”We All Hate Jeremy Beadle”). Check out the newspaper headline from “The Sun” held aloft half way through the song (pictured, left)…

Ouch! (This picture seems all the more prophetic to me now because of the fact that I watched it only yesterday, not knowing of his ailment.)