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		<title>Irish Times article: music to my ears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an article for the Irish Times Insight supplement, which appeared last week, based on a chat with Richard Reed, a musician with a cochlear implant, who I first talked about here. Here&#8217;s the PDF First page of article Second page of article]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/01/31/irish-times-article-music-to-my-ears/</link>
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		<title>Tinny radio rocks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been just over four months since I was activated, so time for an update. I knew that my soundscape would change as soon as I got the implant, but even after four months, it’s still changing. If you’ve read previous blog entries, you’ll remember that I struggled to settle into a program that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2012/01/23/my-evolving-soundscape/</link>
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		<title>Mapping a path to a hearing sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went for my third mapping on Thursday 1st Dec, a week ago. First, a warning: what you are about to read is quite long and technical, and therefore probably quite dull and uninteresting if you’re not a CI user yourself, or at least profoundly interested in the audiological science surrounding it. Jacki, my audiologist, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/12/08/mapping-a-path-to-a-hearing-sun/</link>
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		<title>Hanging on the telephone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday I&#8217;ll be going for my second mapping session, so now seems a good time to report on progress. I had the volume turned up near to its max for the last few weeks in the assumption that I would need more volume as time goes on. But in my case, the volume seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/11/29/hanging-on-the-telephone/</link>
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		<title>Richard Reed, a musician with a cochlear implant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended a music workshop for CI implantees yesterday at Beaumont Hospital given by a chap called Richard Reed. Reed, from the USA, is a professional musician who lost his hearing several years ago and subsequently got a cochlear implant, although not until about ten years later. Since then, he has embarked on his own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/11/10/richard-reed-a-musician-with-a-cochlear-implant/</link>
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		<title>The digital TV switchover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saorview will replace all analogue TV by 2012. John Cradden looks at how this will work Get connected: Paddy Mulhern from Kinsale, Co Cork, with his many remote controls Thursday October 20 2011 It was all supposed to be a very big deal. The Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte, announced last week that the old, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/11/10/the-digital-tv-switchover/</link>
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		<title>Pondering a book, but still seeking a stable map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks since my last post. I need to go to blogging confession again. It’s not as if there isn’t plenty to say. In fact, I am thinking of writing a proper book about all this between now and next year, and have actually spent much of this morning thinking about a tentative outline and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/10/19/pondering-a-book-and-seeking-a-stable-map/</link>
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		<title>Self-assessed tax returns: DIY or use an agent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like visits from the grim reaper, there is never a convenient time for taxes. But for the nearly 300,000 among us who are self-employed, as well as the many thousands more who have non-PAYE sources of income to declare, it&#8217;s not like you haven&#8217;t been warned. The tax-return deadline date of October 31 is well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/10/19/self-assessed-tax-returns-diy-or-use-an-agent/</link>
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		<title>Early Christmas shopping &#8211; is there any point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might have to rub your eyes and wonder if you really do need to go to Specsavers. But no, there&#8217;s no mistake. We&#8217;ve just been enjoying an Indian summer, and Halloween is still a full month away, but take a walk today down certain aisles of your local supermarket and there is a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/10/19/early-christmas-shopping-is-there-any-point/</link>
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		<title>Confessions of a haggler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The very idea of bargaining sends some shoppers into a cold sweat &#8212; but there are savings to be made if you know how, writes John Cradden For the average Irish consumer, haggling is still a bit of a dirty word. Many of us are reluctant to roll up our sleeves and give it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johncradden.ie/2011/09/29/confessions-of-a-haggler/</link>
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