donal's blog

just finished uploading a video from Ian's gig in early May. Enjoy!

I just had a read of an interesting report by DCC on Apartment Living - they served nearly 200 schemes across the Dublin area and looked at a number of items regarding management of the schemes. The 2 areas that interested me were the fire standards of apartment schemes and noise complaints. Fire standards for apartments are extremely low with poor signage and equipment. Noise is a large percentage of complaint to management companies but only 6 (yes 6!!) complaints were made to DCC in relation to apartment complex noise. The full report (which includes the checklist they used) is available here: http://www.dublincity.ie/Images/Apartment%20Living%20Part%202%20Oct%2007_tcm35-57039.pdf The checklist might be useful for folk renting/buying apartments so do check it out - page 116.

as sinéad puts it "i got tickets, up yours!"... haha The last time REM played in Ireland was back in 1999 iirc - in Landsdowne Road. I fell out with a guy I went to school with over that gig - we were meant to go and get tickets together and he went off and bought the tickets without talking to me. I never went to the concert... so now that they've announced 5 nights in the Olympia, I'm delighted. It will be a preview of new material which is being recorded this spring. I love the intimacy of the Olympia so this will be a real treat... We've got tickets for sunday and thursday night. see you there...