Fústar has an interesting little experiment you might like to check out.
He’s asking his readers to buy a cheap, crappy toy and send him their pics and comments.  As the night goes on, he’ll weave the lot into a single, live post.
Full details HERE

Christmas is the day we remember that Santa died on the cross to save the world, and we all honour the memory of that wonderful moment by going out and getting shit-faced drunk.

I wasn’t going to be caught out like last year and the year before that and the year before that and the [...]

… said Bertie Ahern to the Tribunal.

None of the Tribunal’s damned business that he had a safe in his office stuffed full of the cash he managed to save during his separation.
None of the Tribunal’s business and therefore none of your damned business and none of my damned business.
I see.
Perhaps somebody should remind Bertie of [...]

The Bullet went out and bought himself a Les Paul. Now, admittedly, it isn’t a Gibson. It’s an Epiphone, but hey, what the fuck? He’s fifteen, for fucksake!

He doesn’t put it down. He sleeps with it. We need a surgeon. A guitar surgeon: Doctor Feelgood.
Well, Bullet, I [...]

You might remember our friend Adam Keane, the rapist, who received a suspended three-year sentence from Mr Justice Paul Carney back in March. At the time, Keane’s suspended sentence was activated when he contemptuously flicked a cigarette butt at his victim after the trial.
Well, today, following the DPP’s appeal against the leniency of [...]

Well done, guys, for getting rid of that fool, Thabo Mbeki, who thinks that AIDS has nothing to do with HIV.
Well done for electing Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC.  This is a man who avoided AIDS by having a shower after sex with somebody who had HIV.
Real progress there for South Africa.
Great hope [...]

Irish Eagle
Associate Notes
Bart Busschots
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness
Parson to Person
Grandad
Jack McMad
Darwin (back from expedition)

Why shouldn’t schools pay water charges?
After all, the bishops, rabbis and mullahs will be very quick to remind you that the State doesn’t own the schools. They’ll be very quick indeed to remind you that the schools are in fact owned and run by the various religious denominations, and not by the State (though [...]

Mulley suggested it. 
Twenty ran with it.
Here’s my list.  Every one’s a winner.
The Brothers of Charity.  For abusing countless children, for taking hundreds of millions from the taxpayer and for sacking employees who objected  to cooperating with the authorities.
The Health Service Executive.  For treating women like shit and not giving a flying fuck how many [...]