There's a fine songwriter here in this town who's been writing songs for a hundred years, and I'm glad to include him among my friends. Eamonn Hehir is his name, [...]

I've been thinking about this recent court case involving the two women who want to be married, and it's bothering me. These women, it seems, want to be married like [...]

Can't remember if I posted this or not. Captain Kirk singing Pulp's Common People with Joe Jackson and Ben Folds. No doubt somebody will point out the mistake if I [...]

. . . and a stand in the street at the turn of a joke. (As the great Guy Clark once wrote). I sat in last night with the Bullet [...]

There's an article in today's Irish Times about the decline of B&Bs in Ireland. A worrying article. A deeply worrying article, pointing to a potential collapse in one of our [...]

America exists because the English and the French killed all the local people and took over their land. Isn't that obvious? Fair fuckin play to them. If there were enough [...]

In Dublin, an entirely blameless Lithuanian man died when he attempted to stop four people siphoning diesel from his truck. He was an honest man, well-regarded in the transport business, [...]

In the morning, we hit the road for Dublin, me and the kid and about eight million other Limerick people as well. Better make sure the old red shirt isn't [...]

Question: What's the difference between Serbian, Croatian, Serbo-Croat and Bosnian? Answer: None. Linguistically, it's about the same as the difference between Dublin English and Cork English, except there's no Yugoslav [...]

I love Lidl. Their special offers are just great, and they manage to keep us in a constant state of joyous expectation, but it would be hard to beat next [...]