• Are you one of the border people? Sounds like something the village folk might alude to in hushed tones. “We don’t talk about the border people.” Anyway, www.borderpeople.info is your one stop shop if you go up north / come down south regularly.
• Wankers!
• The new Bus Éireann site has teething issues? Looks nice.
• Permanent armed response unit for Limerick starting in July.
• More on the Dublin Rap Community:
  
• If the internets seems quiet today, here’s why.

8 Mile was on TV last night. I didn’t watch it. But I did start to think about Irish Hip Hop. Which is very much alive.

8 mile let us all in on battling, in which rappers try to out slag each other to a beat. For the uninitiated, this is a style of freestyle rap. Here’s some recorded battling sessions from Irishhiphopdotcom: (Which contains, surprisingly, bad language)

Poke a little bit around irishhiphop.com, and you come up against this video, in which emcee Kounter Kulture talks all about culture, subculture and counterculture, eventually tying it in with the future of Irish hiphop. I had no idea there was so much to it. (It’s 24 minutes long.)

There’s certainly a lot of them: Irish Hip Hop on myspace. Irish Hip Hop on bebo.

Wanna a quick crash course? Try this playlist, created last year by an IrishHipHop.com poster:

More: www.irishhiphop.com.

A rap about having a lark in the town of Mullingar

Not new, but hey, it’s Mullingar, the sparkle of the Emerald Isle; there can be no argument about posting this.