Bock was born six years ago today and what a bouncing baby he turned out to be, but after 3,630 posts, working out at an average of 605 a year, [...]

Michael Duffy was a decent man who helped his intellectually-disabled son, Francis, to buy a house so he could have some independence.  Michael paid the electricity and gas bills while [...]

I'm moving out of the Bockschloss and I'm trying to decide what small nation to annex.  I no longer need the vast underground caverns, hewn from the living rock by [...]

Still surfing the wave of positivity from last night's meeting, I decided to practise what I preach and come up with some sort of a framework that might help us [...]

When you manage to pack 500 people into a room and everybody agrees with the point of the meeting, it has to count as a big success.  When people contribute [...]

As I flipped idly through the Forbes list of billionaires, alternating between astonishment and sheer, venomous resentment, I found myself searching for some kind of relief from the endless carousel [...]

I know someone who is more than an acquaintance but less than a friend. He's an insecure snob, but still I like him.  I don't see so much of him [...]

Beer is to thirst as fillet steak is to hunger.  In both cases, you could have something lighter to sate your desire, but nothing more complex, nothing richer, nothing more [...]

The Library Phantom A local on-line newspaper produced by University of Limerick students.  Local but not parochial.  Much better than the commercial efforts, which has to tell you something about [...]

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