I was thinking there, you know, after that Monica Leech business, what other construction – apart from sipping his Coke – could be put on a newspaper article that said [...]

I see a headline on the front page of today's Irish Times: Women injecting cocaine have had legs amputated. Now! You see? That's the way to clamp down on crime. [...]

Jesus, I hate it when my dinner looks back at me. I was at a barbecue recently where they roasted a whole sheep, and that would have been fine by [...]

I got this from Gráinne . Thanks Gráinne .

Tony Blair is going to be appointed Peace Envoy to the Middle East. He's going to represent something calling itself the Quartet of Mideast peace mediators: the USA, the EU, [...]

Oh, you're going to love this. Do you know Damien Mulley, Irish blogging guru and All-Round Wonderful Person For Organising the Irish Blog Awards and Getting All of Us Drunk [...]

Late-night flight through dark and brooding country. A ceaseless whisper of cicadas. Dubious men in linen suits who smile too much and call you my very good friend. A shipwreck. [...]

The first truck made it through the crossing without trouble. Then the second. As we approached the checkpoint, the young border guard raised a flashlight to halt us. I cursed [...]

Ok. Now listen up. I managed to escape the Monastery with Disparager. Repeat: I have Disparager. I have taken him to The Island where he will be kept by our [...]

I have climbed to the mountain-top monastery on the road north from N and I am now hiding in a cavern beneath the High Altar. Dear God, the sights I [...]