I like Presbyterians.
I like their casual, devil-may-care attitude to life. I enjoy the way they sing and dance in the streets with their brightly-coloured costumes and their all-night partying.
I love the way they live for today with never a thought for what the future might bring. I like their sense of humour and their [...]
We all know about Sick Building Syndrome, but this is the first time I ever heard of a mentally ill building.
Dr Michael Shine, who used to be a consultant surgeon at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda, has been struck off the medical register for professional misconduct after a number of men made allegations [...]
Now that the world’s economy has collapsed, they’re saying we’re headed back to the eighties, and I’m telling you, I won’t stand for it.
If you think I’m putting up with Adam Ant, or Duran Duran or Kenny fucking Rogers, you’re bonkers. I won’t put up with it. Imagine having to live through another decade [...]
I’m in no fuckin mood to write anything today. Let me alone.
It’s been a non-day in many ways and it looks like getting even nonner as the evening wears on. A bland, grey, overcast ripple in the space-beer continuum.
I didn’t even manage to crawl out of bed until about eleven, which was not unconnected with [...]
Isn’t it great to see pirates back in business?
No, seriously, I mean that. Isn’t it a great thing to revive the old traditions, as they’re doing in Somalia? I’d love to visit that town, Eyl, where all the Somali pirates live.
Ahoy, me maties, I’d say, even though that would probably be the wrong thing to [...]
Soweto Connection (http://www.sowetoconnection.org ) is an Irish-registered charity set up after a Limerick couple spent a year living in South Africa, and became involved with township community groups who don’t normally get access to funding from overseas. These are small groups – women’s groups, daycare centres for AIDS orphans, shelters for street kids, run by [...]
Is Munster the best team in the world to follow?
Well, let me put it to you this way: do you know of another team where every man will put his body on the line rather than disappoint the supporters?
Where every man will fight to the death for his team-mates?
And as Mick Galwey once [...]
You might be wondering what sort of people we have in Limerick.
Well here they are:
UPDATE
19th November 2008: Munster 16 – All Blacks 18
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I have the tickets here in my hand. I’m looking at them.
They’re saying, You know what, Bock? You could probably sell us for a large amount of cash.
And I’m replying Yes. You’re right of course, but I’ll never sell you. I’m going to hold you close. [...]
I was feeling a little peckish, so I nipped into a chipper.
Gimme a bag of chips there, my good man.
Certainly Sir. That’ll be two euros.
Look, I said. I seem to have forgotten my wallet, but I just happen to have a wheelbarrow overflowing with Bank of Ireland shares. Two million of them.
He snatched the bag [...]
