I’m running a competition on FestivalShirts.net where you can win a t-shirt of your choice very very easily.

All you have to do is link to FestivalShirts and then comment on the blog post I linked to above… check it out.

Thanks to Green Ink and Twenty Major for posting these videos. My God. This is Ireland.

Welcome aboard Dave! Dave has been commenting on political posts in particular here on BifSniff for quite some time now. You might remember him from such posts as Redefining Honour, We got it wrong. Can we have another go?, and of course the classic Vote to minimise ethnic and racial differences in ireland which got 92 comments.

Dave will mostly be posting current afairsy type stuff I imagine, political stuff and the like. Dave is a self professed FG man and he and I don’t always see eye to eye but we have enough common ground that I think we can all coexist peacefully enough here on BifSniff.com.

Besides, it’s better when we argue because it makes for long comment threads which makes the place seem more lively!

So welcome Dave, now that you’ve lost your blog post virginity it’s all plain sailing from here!

My friend Eagle Eye Jeremy sent me this gem he spotted on breakingnews.ie, it seems Fianna Fail’s Pat Carey will be having a party to celebrate his recent appointment.

You know if you have a TV, you must have a TV licence? Well you must, that’s the law. The government spend quiet a few quid sending out inspectors to make sure we all cough up. It’s fair enough really, even if it’s a little expensive. If you are a bold boy or girl however and “forget� to pay you licence fee… well then as those expensive ads with Podge and Rodge tell us you can face a fine or even jail. And yes they actually do send people to jail for not paying their licence fee a mere €130 or there about!

But if you are a TD, returning to the bosom of the Fianna Fail party (after being thrown out for the minor matter of facilitating tax evasion) and you own, lets say €2.5m… well then you get your bill halved, your boyfriend pays for it, the tax payer pays the rest and you get a junior ministry! What a country… good job the Greens are there cleaning up the Fianna Fail act.