One man’s anti-semitism is another man’s comedy. Context is everything and cynical hacks have no morals.

The Equal Status Act, 2000.
What the fuck is that?
It’s an act that was passed in 2000, which gives people equal status.
Hmmmm.
Do you really want to read the Equal Status Act, 2000? If you do, I can copy the whole fuckin lot here and you can wade through the entire bullshit, but I’d prefer not [...]

I hadn’t been in Bombay Mick’s for a while but the decor was the same and so were the clientele. Though the full noonday sun beat down on the street like an iron-mill hammer, the inside of the bar was dark as a coalmine twice as hot. A fan hung from the filthy [...]

I was sitting out the back with my neighbour Jimbo the other night, relaxing by the light from a pile of old tyres we were burning.
Jesus, said Jimbo, this is the life.
Indeed it is, I agreed. Slosh another gallon of diesel on that fire there.
Right, says Jimbo. I’ll just throw on some [...]

It’s a strange expression, isn’t it? Working class.
What does it mean?
I’ve always had a problem with it, even though I’ve always vaguely understood its thrust.
It’s very British. Here in Ireland, we don’t really have a well-defined class system, as they do in England or India. We all curse and swear. None of [...]

You might have heard of the recent Fitzgerald Report on regenerating a number of troubled areas in Limerick. Squid included some local reaction to it, including this gem from a Father Pat Hogan, who’s based in the Southill area.
Where you have acute income poverty, you have poor literacy, truancy, poor parenting skills and all [...]

What about the good old Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, huh? Now there’s a fearless watchdog working to keep Ireland a better place, wouldn’t you think?
I was especially taken by the BCI’s latest spectacular, where they banned an ad from the charity, Trócaire.
You might have seen it. It’s about the appalling treatment of women [...]

I don’t watch the Big Brother show, but it would be impossible to miss the controversy that’s going on at the moment over the behaviour of some participants. India is outraged at some comments which seem to be racist, though I didn’t hear them myself. People are burning effigies on the street. [...]

It seems that the tough new police action against drinking and driving has pretty much killed the rural pub, which was the last place left for people to congregate, now that the post offices are nearly extinct and people are afraid to go to the church in case a big hairy priest jumps out from [...]

The dog is my doorbell.
About an hour ago, the dog started to go crazy, but before I could get there, somebody kicked the door. Fuck this, I thought, as the dog went insane.
Now, I’m not Chuck Norris, and I’m not stupid either. If anyone is going to die here, it will be the [...]