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Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!And we’ve an Irish Entrant in…. SWEET! >>> Red Bull X-alps [...] Read More »

It was pretty bad weather to set off in, if you can’t navigate for yourself… How do you get ‘lost’ in Wicklow anyway? Maybe easily injured, but lost? Why do people go into the hills without the knowledge to get themselves back out again!!? ffs. RTE News - Couple rescued fro[...] Read More »

OH COME ON!!! A Rock Climbing course…. wooooooooooooooooooo PRINCE HARRY - PRINCE HARRY TO DEFY CRITICS WITH MOUNTAINEERING COURSE: “British royal PRINCE HARRY has slammed reports he is too sick to continue his training at Sandhurst Military Academy in England by embarking on a tough mo[...] Read More »

Was in Notting Hill Underground! “A Bit Foreign!” I ask you!! [...] Read More »

ok, so it’s just an old sat image, but still!!http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_deletes_aple/ Also, the twin towers are there too… v old imagery.. and in B&W. Not half as impressive as Google Earth (GE). [...] Read More »

Google Earth has been really impressing me. Especially as with Plus for $20 you can upload all your GPS Waypoints onto the 3D Sat Images and spin them around and around.  [...] Read More »

UPDATE January 2006: This is the top google entry on the web for ‘Google Maps Dublin’ so I thought I had better provide a link direct to it: Click Here to Open Google Maps Over Dublin, Ireland! – Google Maps - dublin sorry, I take that back Google!! You have got Hybrid Mode in I[...] Read More »

Google Maps - new york Google Launches Hybrid Mode… v cool! COME ON GUYS, GET IRELAND COVERED!!! [...] Read More »

CAN YOU CALL A PERSON STROLLING UP ‘HUNGRY HILL’ A CLIMBER? RTE News - Climber airlifted after Cork fall: “A climber who was injured in a fall on a hillside near Castletownbere in Co Cork, was airlifted by coastguard helicopter to Cork University hospital early today. The local man[...] Read More »

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Good Story at Gear Live | How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket [...] Read More »

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites: “Welcome to Google Moon In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More about G[...] Read More »

Very Sad… Gelndalough is known to be dodgy with under currents I know. Which youth group? RTE News - Girl drowns in Co Wicklow lake: “A 12-year-old girl has drowned in a lake in Co Wicklow. It is understood the youngster got into difficulty when either paddling or swimming at Glendaloug[...] Read More »

GRRR! RTE News - Waste dumped at Wicklow beauty spot: “The Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, is to ask Wicklow County Council to work as quickly as possible to clean up 100 tonnes of waste dumped at the back of the Sugar Loaf Mountain in Co Wicklow. The waste is all that remains after [...] Read More »

Google tracks Hitler to San Diego | The Register hidden swastikas on Google Maps [...] Read More »

What was a non-swimmer doing without a lifejacket on out at sea on a doughnut ring? Come on!!! online.ie: news: “A lifeboat was launched and a Coastguard officer who had been dealing with an earlier emergency involving two children on the same East Strand grabbed a canoe and tried to reach him[...] Read More »