I wandered towards Bombay Mick’s this evening and bumped into Mr Darwin, a frequent contributor to this organ.
Mr Darwin engages, among other things, inter alia, and so forth, in playing the jazz guitar, and he’s involved in the Limerick Acoustic Guitar Festival, taking place for the next while or so. Check it out if [...]

Help me out here, would you?
I’m not an international rugby manager, you see, and so I’m not fully up to date with modern management techniques, unlike Eddie O Sullivan, the Irish coach.
So let me just get this straight, now. Is this how it goes?
When preparing for the World Cup, you ask yourself which country [...]

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I stir in the bed but I do not move, for I have experienced this before, many years ago in the Aran Islands. Sane men don’t move until this ritual has passed, for it is the waking-up rite of the [...]

So Bush’s Brain has deserted him. Hmmm. What a shame.
Here’s Martyn Turner’s take on it, from the Irish Times.
Yuk. Yuk. Yuk.

I bought a new computer a couple of months ago.  It isn’t massively powerful, because I didn’t need anything spectacular.  All I needed was a PC to do this kind of thing and a bit of word-processing.
It freezes.  It hangs.  It locks up.  My programs are constantly Not Responding.
This thing locks up when you try [...]

Riddle me this: how do you know if something is located in Dublin?
Simple: it’ll have the word National at the start of its name.
The National Gallery.
The National Aquatic Centre.
The national broadcasting station.
The National College of Art and Design.
The National Museum.
The National Theatre.
The National Maternity Hospital.
The National Botanic Gardens.
The National Library.
The National Rehabilitation Hospital.
The National Concert [...]

People are so desperate they’ll believe any shit. Isn’t it true? Of course it is, and in evidence, I bring forward the matter of BSc degrees in Alternative Medicine. Now there’s an idea for you.
Let’s juxtapose those words for a minute while we contemplate their contradictory meaning.
Bachelor of Science. Alternative medicine.
Hmm.
They’re [...]

Isn’t it great?  We’re back into this shit again.  As the Dickler was remarking to me last week, it’s nine full months of rugby, but that’s because he’s a rural fucker in a rural fucking place where they play only rugby, so he can fuck off.  In other rural parts of County Limerick, it might [...]

Aer Lingus operates full flights into and out of Shannon every day. It will also operate full flights into and out of Belfast every day.
So what’s the difference?
Tickets.
The Shannon route carries a mix of passengers, some of whom have just arrived at the ticket desk and bought a fare at the top price. [...]

Am I the only one worried about the fact that Britain’s fight against foot & mouth disease is being led by someone called Debbie Reynolds?