I expect to be a little busy for the next week or thereabouts, so posting might be sporadic at best.
Don’t celebrate yet : I haven’t gone away.

I know what we should do! said Wrinkly Joe. We’ll open the whiskey!
That was at five o’clock this morning when a taxi delivered us home, babbling and drooling after Gerry Soprano’s mega-housewarming-party, involving a free bar (free fucking bar!!), an eight-piece blues band, free grub (free fucking grub!!)
Open the whiskey? Are you mad?? [...]

Lately, in this little God-fearing country, a new language seems to be evolving to categorise all the new immigrants we have these days, and for some reason, it always seems to involve the word National.
You hear it in news bulletins, you read it in the papers. People you bump into on the street use [...]

If you already had a link to Tim Ruttledge’s adventures on board ship, now is the time to update it. Tim has moved address to here : http://timstimes.net
If you didn’t have a link, now is the time to visit and see what you think.

You want to know what it’s like when some fucker decides to set off a bomb?
OK. Read THIS
With thanks to MacDara for the link

I see Bertie has managed to cobble together a new coalition, with a very green tinge indeed.
You have the Greens, the Greens-With-Envy and the Folding Greens. These are supported by maniac independents like Jackie Healy-Rae, or as they’re known, the Wigs on the Green.
Of the three parties, the Greens are probably the greenest having [...]

I thought you might like to hear Jock reading THIS

Well, the Limerick photos were a great success, and thanks very much for your participation.
A while back, I came across a comment about Limerick on Kav’s blog, by Twenty Major, and I reacted to it because I thought it was a particularly idiotic and gratuitous slur on a town he clearly knew nothing about [...]

I see that a man had to be removed from a flight between Mexico and Manchester because he became abusive to fellow passengers, engaged in threatening behaviour, was intoxicated and failed to follow the cabin crew’s directions. The plane landed at Shannon, and the man is due to appear before an Irish court soon.
Had [...]