my favourite was ‘halloween…do you have that in Ireland?’ its our baby…all ours and we gave it to you.

The web, especially the blogosphere, works best when it grows organically. In other words don’t ask people for links - that practice largely stopped around 1999.

Just link to sites, blogs, whatever, naturally - as you write about them and maybe recommend them as you try to build a community of sites of which you are a member of. Those sites will notice you linking and will reciprocate if they believe that your site fits into the community that they and their readers are part of. That may take time, or may never happen.

Don’t tell another site that you are “open to displaying” their site - just do it; be first if you honestly think it’s a good fit - don’t worry about people linking back to you, just concentrate on linking to others - the rest will then happen organically.

And especially don’t ask for links in a comment - most people consider that tantamount to spam. Leave comments of substance that contribute to a discussion around a post.

To be honest your name doesn’t help matters being a mixture of Irish and English, and then referred to by its initials which are already in use for 125 years in Ireland and beyond by a rather large organisation.

Finally, since I appear to be a bit free with a advice today, to have an organisation’s blog considered seriously you really need to get its blog off blogspot. If you have a domain name, put it there; if not, get a domain - they’re cheap.

Thank you for taking your time to read this comment in regard to your site. We here at the GAA Ireland are a new blogspot company dedicated to working on behalf of the Gaelige society worldwide. Based in Ireland we are contact a number of organisation to obtain your support in linking into the Gaelige Athlete Alliance. Has GAA is the early stages of entering the blogsphere we would like to request your support in doing so.

We are proud to say that we are open to displaying your website with the hope that a link can be forged to allow the exchange of information for the forseeable future. If you wish to make comment on our site or give any advice it would be gratefully excepted.

All the best GAA

Slan

I’ve heard bagpipes being played at Dublin Castle while I was having a pint in Athlone. On RTE radio, of cource.

Certain times in March will be mad of course, so assuming you avoid those times, and on how many of you there are, then O’Dowd’s on the Plaza or Kelly’s of Westport might be better - and a touch more central.

Assuming you don’t want to stay in JoCo and go to The Public House (Old WJ MCBride’s) then possibly your only other central option to consider would be Raglan Road in the Power & Light district downtown.

Bear in the mind that the more Irish a pub claims to be, the more stuff will be going on there in March.

To be honest I don’t know what prime conditions would be - an assisting wind? Or no other sound whatsoever, the aural equivalent of a vacuum? I’ve certainly heard sound travel some miles when in the mountains, but I’d take some convincing on the 40 figure. And by convincing I mean somebody who cares about science telling me.

Thanks
Jeff