Previously weve brought you the online beggar, a guy who uses the web as one big paper cup. Now we bring you his soul brother, The Rich Jerk.

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With gender equality a given these days, its hard to believe now but there was a time when it was considered that a woman's place was in the home.

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Ireland’s first ever International Garden Festival blooms until September in County Laois.

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We’ve all been struck down by IVR. It’s not a virus – IVR stands for interactive voice response....

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If you’re reading this, it could be from a foreign destination. In search of Summer, you may have packed your bags, loaded the saloon and lastminute.commed to hotter climes....

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Ah, the typical Irish builder - stonewashed denims hitched at halfmast, breakfast roll carried nonchalantly under the oxter, five o’clock shadow flecked with white matt emulsion, lumberjack shirt carrying three kilos worth of household debris – not exactly Brad Pitt.

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Now in the land of the free and the home of the downright crazy, you can get great online deals for the ultimate in self improvement.

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Previously the preserve of the pensioner posse, knitting has been taken out of the nursing home and onto the streets by a bunch of online stitch swizzlers..

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Budget airlines have encouraged Irish globetrotters, but delays and cancellations are often part of the package.

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Babies, what's not to love. But when it comes to putting a name to the face it can be quite contentious. One parent likes Fiona the other likes Frogmella.

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One Irish website has made it their mandate to beat the clampers... no, not literally!

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In this part of the world Noggin is a word you might associate with Sally, or the thing between your ears - but on the world wide web it's something completely different.

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There's a new hero in town - a caped consumerist known as Blagman. A bloke who has dedicated his blog not to fighting crime but to the even more exciting pursuit of getting free stuff.

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This cool tool uses the ultimate non-impact no-contact weapon: Google, to compare and contrast two topics - or even the two alternative spellings of the same word.

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Not Leaving on a Jet Plane:If you're travelling abroad but don't fancy having your personal belonging re-classified as terrorist weapons maybe you should consider some words of wisdom from the mysteriously titled Man in Seat 61.

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Virtual Mothers: Sharing is caring, and now there's a community website for Mums that proves it.

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Whispers While You Work:Here's a way to make your 9 to 5 workaday a little bit more bearable - with ambient sound environments designed to deliver relaxation and solitude...

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Camera Obscured:According the Laws of Optics, Camera Obscura refers to the phenomenon of an upside down image being created when light travels through a very small hole.

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Bums on Seats: If you're a long-haired, bearded, backpacking hippy sick of slumming it in greasy cockroach-infested hostels run by greasy flea infested hostel owners then we've found the site for you.

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The Galway Races are in full swing this week – promising an exciting spectacle for thousands of visitors but a dangerous one for those few riders who fall foul of a contrary nag.

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There’s two types of traveller. The tourist type who likes gaping at old buildings, air conditioned coaches and Irish stew....

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There’s no doubt that Sudoku is the quiz du jour – the addictive number puzzler that has captured the heart and chewed the pencil of many a games boffin.

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It’s summertime, and the only thing that isn’t easy is camping.

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Do you have trouble separating head and bed every morning ?

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Whatever your mood there’s a website to match it but the question is how do you find it ?

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Remember that 25 volume, leather bound, gilt edged 5 tonne collection of Encyclopedia Brittanica we all grew up gandering at – well it’s shredder time…

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Makeup makeovers aren’t always effective but they’re usually expensive unless you go online.

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Being consistently cool and trendy isn’t easy– so any help should be welcome.

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The Reaction Time Trainer sounds like a piece of equipment pulled from the hull of the starship enterprise

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How to spend your SSIA...?

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For many of us, growing up in the good old bad old days the classroom was a place where the teacher ruled.

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Those of you considering a city break or holidays abroad may want to drum up on some background information....

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The wide web seems intent on making the world a smaller place and nowhere is this more evident than on one site that has created a photo map of the world.

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One website has a modern fairy tale for the digital age. It’s the story of George, a defeated gamer who one day turns his back on the web

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With the time of year that’s in it party season is fast approaching. Great fun for everybody but not so much fun when the host finds something congealed and crusty under a sofa cushion

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We’ve all been caught by telemarketing merchants wanting to sell us loans we don’t want and phones we don’t need and wondered what the best excuse would be…

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This is the perfect dream analysis website…..

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The Irish like nothing more than pondering the possibility of precipitation, the softness of the day or the length of stretch in the evenings….

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We’ve all heard amazing stories about road rage antics or rock stars being grounded for air rage outrages but in Ireland we have our own special breed of travelling sickness.

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If you can’t remember what colour the carpet supposed to be, if your curtains are starting to crust and the kitchen is congealing maybe you need professional help.

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