I just completed my last class today.  Well, actually I showed up to class and it was cancelled.  There is a huge protest going on today in the city center by a large union in Ireland called SIPTU (not sure what the acronym stands for).  They are protesting against Irish Ferries who employ many Irish people, and are considering outsourcing their employees, and/or changing where they dock so that they don't have to pay Irish minimum wage to their employees.  The story has been all over the news.  This protest is so large that all the city buses stopped running at noon (they are on strike too), so the town's pretty much shut down.  It would have been an interesting one to go see, but since I'm still sick, marching and getting stuck in the city center wasn't for me.

I won't miss any of my classes, that's for sure, but I will miss my teacher for Irish history, Don.  He was funny.  Here are some words of wisdon from Don:

"All saints have a past and all sinners have a future."

"God may be a crutch, but he's a very good one."

"The place is so small, you couldn't swing a cat."

"Education is the one thing that can never be taken away from you.  You go to class to learn, but you come abroad to get an education."

"I'm a liberal, but not a wishy-washy bloody liberal.  I don't eat granola or wear open-toed sandals or anything."