I was a great smoker.
I used to wake up in the morning, stretch, rub my eyes and say:
Morning again!  Time for a delicious, fibre-packed, vitamin-filled cigarette, bursting with all the essential nutrients an active adult needs!
Jesus, I loved them.  I often had three of them in bed before getting up.
Three!  Three delicious life-giving cigarettes!
Oh yes.  [...]

There was a time when newspapers cared about trivial little things like grammar and spelling, especially papers of record like the Irish Times, but not anymore.
The IT had an article today about the crooked lawyer, Michael Lynn, who scammed the banks and his clients out of millions.  The Law Society set up a disciplinary tribunal [...]

I see the Gardaí­ will be able to collect details of people’s emails and internet usage when they’re investigating a serious offence.
Serious offences, you say?
Great!  It’s about time they came down hard on drug dealers and gun smugglers and murderers and rapists and child abusers.
Well, no, actually.  Under the new rules, the government is going [...]

Well, it looks like Twenty thinks Bulimia is a fucking scream.
Who am I to disagree?

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This bit isn’t about Niall McElwee.  It’s about you and me.
It’s about finding the line between bad behaviour and becoming a despised sexual offender with a criminal record.
Tell me this honestly: did you ever make a lewd comment or suggestion to a member of the opposite sex?
That could be sexual harassment.
Did you ever make an [...]

At the slightest hint of danger, the meerkranes are on the alert.

When Niall McElwee left a reply here, this post became something different from its original version.
Originally, this post was just a reaction to a commenter on another blog who suggested I was “within a hair” of blaming the victim, and who also cast doubt on the validity of my questions about this case.
I took extreme [...]

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The Norwegian emigrant ship, Hannah Parr, bound for Quebec, put into Limerick port in May, 1868, having lost a foremast. About 400 passengers were aboard the ship, and these people found themselves having to depend on the citizens of Limerick for hospitality while repairs were carried out.
According to the Limerick Chronicle on the 9th [...]