Today is a big one for the Iron. If they beat Huddersfield this afternoon, Scunthorpe United are guaranteed promotion to the Championship. Next season, if all goes well, they'll be [...]

I've just watched Pat Kenny interviewing Bill O'Reilly, and I have to admit it isn't really clear to me what just happened. Was that the finest piece of satire ever [...]

It's a strange expression, isn't it? Working class. What does it mean? I've always had a problem with it, even though I've always vaguely understood its thrust. It's very British. [...]

Do you ever talk to yourself out loud? You know, like when you're completely pissed off for no particular reason that you can put your finger on, and you wander [...]

Update 16th April 2007 When I wrote this post, I didn't realise what would happen a week later. ======================================================= Original post Washington DC had a ban on citizens owning handguns. [...]

You might have heard of the recent Fitzgerald Report on regenerating a number of troubled areas in Limerick. Squid included some local reaction to it, including this gem from a [...]

For years, we have celebrated Good Friday by heading up to Lough Derg and going across the lake on boats, from Garrykennedy to Mountshannon. In keeping with tradition, we bring [...]

I bumped into my friend Hopkins this morning. Morning, Boss, I greeted him. Grand weather for Good Friday. Hopkins stared at me manically. What none would have known of it, [...]

KLAKK-KLONKK!! Another shell slid into the breech of the Roman-built MkXIII Praetor assault cannon. KLANKK! The noise echoed off the cold stone walls of the cave. Too loud. Goddamn ! [...]

I decided to see what all this was about so I went to the Government web site and downloaded an impenetrable document which I spent a couple of hours going [...]