The wild garlic is in flower again and, though some people think it’s a weed, I love to see it spreading around the garden. It tells me Summer can’t be far away.
Wild garlic spreads at a gigantic rate and it fills the garden with delicate white flowers through March and April. Every part of the [...]
What do the Irish Times, the Independent, RTE, the BBC, the Daily Mail, the Irish Examiner, the Guardian and Sky News have in common?
Will I tell you?
They all come behind Bock the Robber (at No 1) in Google.ie searches for Josef Fritzl or Elisabeth Fritzl, with this post:
Josef Fritzl, Elisabeth Fritzl and Echoes of [...]
Some stories defeat the imagination, and I think the news coming from Amstetten in Austria is one of those stories. The depravity of this man, who imprisoned and raped his own daughter for 31 years, quite properly leaves all decent people baffled. No matter how I try, I can’t get my brain to process this [...]
Eolaà finally got his gallery organised and he has paintings on sale for two weeks only at hugely reduced prices .
Here’s the intro and here’s the gallery.
EolaÃ’s offering free shipping worldwide, and the paintings are great value for money.
This one, for example, is painted on a panel, and Eolaà will ship it straight to your [...]
Right.
Many of our people are already in place at the Ricoh stadium, and I’m receiving communications from Coventry by the minute. There are 5,000 Saracens. There are 20,000 of us.
Here in Limerick, a group of highly-trained special forces drinkers have taken control of strategic pubs with large screens and the logistics effort has swung into [...]
They dug up Padre Pio after forty years and put him in a glass box so the faithful can trudge past and see the great man in the flesh. I understand they’re booked out for years in advance with people who want to see their favourite old fraud.
Wonderful.
I was listening to people on a [...]
Look, I just wanted to explain. This weekend is an important one here in Limerick, as Munster go to meet Saracens in the semi-final of the Heineken Cup. That would be the European Cup, y’know?
We won it two years ago, and I was there, at the final in Cardiff with my boy, the Bullet. I [...]