I’ve had a lot of complaints from Dublin people about my last post on the Munster-Leinster game. I realise now that my comments caused great offence and I thought I should try to make it up to them.
So here are a few pictures to cheer them up.
Suppose you woke up one morning and discovered you were a brutal dictator. Never mind how it happened – maybe aliens caused it or it was by magic. One day, you were an obscure but diligent Post Office clerk or something, and the next day you’re the brutal dictator of a medium-sized country. [...]
Some years back, I called to see the Scientologists in Florida. Lovely people. Here’s my diary from that experience:
I’m getting truly sick of all these eighty-mile round trips to Tampa. It’s good for the novelty of the thing, but the American road-laws become harder and harder to understand. Where are all these cops they told [...]
Big weekend coming up now for the Scunts.
Here’s the table:
Last game played on
Tuesday 26th December 2006
Pld
Home
Away
Overall
Pts
GD
W
D
L
F
A
W
D
L
F
A
W
D
L
F
A
Now then. Tomorrow, Scun play bottom-of-the-table Bournemouth, and they’re at the bottom for a very good reason. They’re shite. However, they won’t want to go even lower, and therefore could be dangerous. Given Scun’s habit of [...]
I see the new Anti-social Behaviour Orders are ready to roll. According to today’s papers, the adult version will be available for the new year, with children’s asbos following in a couple of months. I see also, however, that the Guards won’t be ready to implement it because their Fancy-Dan computer system isn’t [...]
Years and years ago, our house in Dublin was broken into. The thief didn’t get much because we didn’t have much, but he took a treasured clock which was a present from a relative.
Police came.
They took measurements and photos. They took fingerprints. They took notes and statements.
They caught somebody.
I received a summons [...]
Listen to all this talk about soft landings. Hard landings. Negative equity. It’s all bollocks. As far as I’m concerned, the crash can’t come soon enough.
If you have a house to live in, it doesn’t matter a shit what it’s worth. It’s a house, it keeps you dry and [...]
Wrinkly Paddy points out that a small fire in a large apartment block merited headline news on our national broadcaster, RTE.
Parochial?
Ah, go on, then. Yeah!
Well, there you go.
About 500 of their supporters made the arduous two-hour journey from Mount Merrion to Limerick, where they were promptly stuffed 25 – 11. What do you think was the best chant these intrepid supporters could could come up with? Would you believe Boring Boring Munster!
In reply, you had about [...]
