Archive for May 2006

Roadblock – Irish Style

May 9th, 2006 | By Bock | Category: gardai

I’ll come back to this subject another day, cos I’m too tired now, but I just want to mention one thing: this bizarre incident in Dublin, involving the stolen bus. Like everyone else in the country, I was shocked and horrified to hear that an innocent poor woman had been killed, and the situation deserves [...]



The power of belief

May 5th, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Bock rant, Politics, Technology

I don’t know if we should develop nuclear power plants here or not.
I think there are valid reasons why we should, and I think there are equally valid reasons why we shouldn’t. I don’t know. I think we need a debate on it, for certain, but right now, I just don’t know, and why would [...]



Daingean

May 5th, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Religion, Scandal

Not everybody will want to know about this, but for those who do, check out the Vincent Browne show of the last few days. I’m not normally given to this level of hyperbole, so believe me when I say to you that I can’t remember ever hearing such powerful radio as the Vincent Browne shows [...]



Plassey

May 4th, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Limerick

Everybody in Limerick knows Plassey. If you don’t go to the nearby University, you certainly went swimming there as a teenager. You walked along the river bank there, got stoned there or laid, if you were lucky or drunk enough. I once gashed my foot there on a sharp stone, while swimming with my friends, [...]



Wrinkly Joe speaks

May 3rd, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Music

Joe sent an email about the Kilkenny trip. I thought I might share it with you:
Friday night was bad, first time playing with the drummer, his electronic kit and a small indifferent crowd. Saturday night was worse. We were playing in the Springhill Hotelwhich is about 2 miles outside the city and [...]



Patriotism

May 1st, 2006 | By Bock | Category: popular culture

America exists because the English and the French killed all the local people and took over their land. Isn’t that obvious?
Fair fuckin play to them. If there were enough Irish, we’d have killed a load of local people somewhere and we’d have taken over their land too.
People are complete bastards, but European people are [...]