Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!The photoshop heads have been at it on the Creative Ireland Forums spoofing Dublin riot photos… classics! Click this link and have a look at them! [...] Read More »

Screenshot by Geared Up This is the first time I’ve ever seen the Irish news make the Flickr Tags. Wow… most searched phrases on Flickr in the last 24hrs, that’s notable. [...] Read More »

I couldn’t resist posting these: Dublin riots video footage via Danger @ The Community At Large (fitting title!) It appears the internet (search riot on flickr.com!) is proving powerful in street journalism on this one. Way better footage than media networks. I wonder, could a possie of net he[...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up Charity hikers are set to raise over €500,000 for the homeless as they scale the island’s four highest mountains in one weekend. Focus Ireland’s ’Four Peaks Challenge’ in June features climbs of Carrauntoohil in Co Kerry, Co Mayo’s Mweel[...] Read More »

UPDATE: Call was a Hoax. Silly silly person. I don’t know how the Helicopter even flew in that weather. The major sea and shore search on Dublin Bay for a missing person has been called off after Dun Laoghaire lifeboat declared the alert a hoax. The search operation was launched early this mor[...] Read More »

Via The Red Ferret Journal, I found this 2ft long shark! It is able to gracefully maneuver up, down, left, right, and even backwards through water, in depths up to 9′. The shark can swim up to 40′ from its handheld remote unit which is also submersible, allowing you to swim with your s[...] Read More »

I’m working on a new little project, I’ll announce it here soon :-) Should be a good source on info for marine goer’s in North Dublin. Watch this space. Sorry on the quiet patch at Geared Up at the moment! [...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up (Not at the Olympics!) NBC (Private American Broadcaster) apparently have 2700 staff in Torino, RTE (National Irish Broadcaster) have 1. God we’re a small country! [...] Read More »

Found this via: Geeky Traveller - A Travel Blog for Nerds. It is basically a small fan with blades of 10 cms diameter connected to a generator with an output wire which connects to your mobile phone. The average efficiency of windmills is found to be 35 per cent as compared with five to 15 per cent[...] Read More »

Photo By Geared Up The RNLI, which operates more than 40 lifeboat stations in Ireland, says it needs increased donations to continue its life saving efforts. More than 1,100 people were rescued by the organisation last year. The Kilmore Quay and Dún Laoghaire stations were the busiest in the coun[...] Read More »

There’s a guy on Newstalk FM discussing his proposal for the 2026 Winter Olympics in the ‘Les Alps Des Mayo’… seriously! Read it on: Winter Olympics 2026 (It’s actually a clever campaign to get the government thinking about Global Warming) [...] Read More »

Received by email this morning: Hi there I wanted to ask you a favour if you are on any climbing mailing lists / know some people who might be interested. We are shooting an ad next week and we need people to be in it. We are particularly looking for a couple of people in their late 20s - 30s, and[...] Read More »

RTE News - Kerry mountain rescuers find lost couple The Kerry mountain rescue team has found a couple who lost their way while climbing the McGillycuddy Reeks near Killarney. The 35-year-old man and 29-year-old woman from Co Wicklow raised the alarm yesterday evening using a mobile phone. Rescuers[...] Read More »

This story is unbelievable! Read it and see what you think… Here’s the start of it: click Read More at the bottom. I hadn’t posted here in a while, because just after the last post, I got a call from an excited park ranger in Hawaii that “a nice Canadian couple reported that [...] Read More »

Found this on TechWire: Crash, bang, wallop — Panasonic’s new Toughbook laptop Panasonic has added a new model to its Toughbook laptop range. For those unfamiliar with the computers, they can be dropped, splattered, sprayed and generally tossed around. They’re used by constructio[...] Read More »

It’s on, and I’ve spent the day there, meeting many old friends… and a number of blog readers (hi there!) who approached me! It was good to see there IS a readership out there. Weldone to the team who pulled the show off (Outsider) good job. It seemed this year (while the entry fee[...] Read More »