A busy sporting weekend. Munster had a good win, didn't they?  We beat Cardiff Blues 28-20 to take top place in the league table, with the delicious prospect of meeting [...]

I wandered into town this morning and came across a nice lady in the market selling traditional wooden toys, which is a thing you don't see much of these days. [...]

This looks like a great offer. It came today by email and I'm just bowled over by the poor woman's generosity at what must be a very difficult time personally. [...]

When Aer Lingus decided to pull out of the Shannon region, we in Limerick were treated to an array of patronising Dublin-based commentators explaining to us that something called the [...]

(With the usual thanks to Achilles for doing the graphics)

Tough old night for all of us … It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

This one is probably meant mainly for people who write crap and put it on the net like I do. I've been using Sitemeter for a while now to count [...]

Why do some people think they only have to sing Summertime and everyone will believe they're Bessie fucking Smith? Is it liquor? You know what I'm talking about: those people [...]

There was a shocking figure in yesterday's Irish Times.  According to figures in Fintan O Toole's article, the police are spending almost as much of their budget on keeping protesters [...]

I bumped into Mr Darwin recently in — of all places! — a pub. He was playing piano in a band, and we had a brief chat during the break.  [...]