February 27, 2011 – 11:04 pm
So yeah, there’s been an election in Ireland. The main gist of what happened is the following: the Fianna Fáil party, having rode the country like a horny fat man on a lame donkey for decades, has been well and truly shat on. Their share of the vote dropped from around 40% to under 20% and they [...]
October 2, 2010 – 3:33 pm
You just have to love the Irish (something you’d all do well to remember, let me mysteriously add). The Irish taxpayers are now the proud owners of two fucked-up financial institutions, which might require cash injections of up to 50 billion euro to keep their greasy bosses in Guinness and Irish-dancer hookers. One individual decided [...]
The big news today of course is the vast cloud of volcanic nastiness heading across the Atlantic, taking every plane out of the sky because of the risk of ash particles clogging the engines, turning to glass and causing quite a mess. Among the travel refugees are H10 and his mum, stuck in Dublin for a few [...]
I have asked my cousin to do a guest post. This is my first guest post ever, because I was lazy and because my cousin amuses me greatly with her writings on Facebook. So here we go. Enjoy. And forgive me for my laziness. I come from the Country but I live in the City. [...]
The Catholic church just doesn’t want you to leave. They baptise you before you can make a decision for yourself, and then make it artificially difficult for you to extricate yourself, so difficult that most people just don’t bother. And this leads to the Catholic church being able to boast a “membership” that is nothing at all like the actual [...]
January 4, 2010 – 12:40 am
I won’t rant I won’t rant I won’t rant… Irish Christmas. Idiot Catholic priests. Grrrr. Horrible Irish architecture. Gzzrrrr. Potatoes done in a billion ways. Mmrrtrtrt. Total lack of physical motion. Hmmrrrrt. Horribly depressing English soap operas. Nnnggggggn. And the rain the rain the rain the damp the rain… So, yes, I was in Ireland [...]
December 24, 2009 – 12:49 am
Tomorrow sees me and H10 heading off to Ireland for the Christmas. The last time such a thing was attempted was five years ago, when after two days in Kerry the lad came down with a very bad stomach bug and had to be transported to the hospital in Tralee where he lay with a [...]
October 5, 2009 – 11:11 pm
All the newspapers today (well, yesterday, when I started writing this) are spouting off about the Lisbon treaty, about the “landslide” YES vote in Ireland. And about the “great day” for Europe. Well it isn’t a “great day” for anything; in fact it was a tragic day that demonstrates the staggering failure of democracy in Europe. Do [...]
September 23, 2009 – 2:15 pm
I had to charge home to Ireland over the weekend, due to a family medical emergency. And yesterday, 4 days later, I made my way back to Dublin, a bit dazed and head-spacey but very glad that things are improving. Jumping into a taxi at the train station in Dublin I was informed by the [...]
August 31, 2009 – 10:14 am
Two weeks ago saw the end of my favourite bottle of perfume. It was an end both natural and unnatural, in that it ran out but also happened to fall into the hand basin and smash into indelicate shards. So that was that then – time to get a new scent. I remember when I [...]
August 1, 2009 – 10:54 am
It’s nice to know that Ireland is keeping up with the times. The economy is in good shape; priests no longer sexually molest children; the right to abortion is recognised and defended; people hold politicians responsible and vote them out when they deserve it; money no longer talks; gay people can live lives free of [...]
January 11, 2009 – 6:00 pm
If you would have asked me 15 years ago what I would be doing as I stumbled towards my late 30s, I would probably have answered, with cringing naivety: “saving the world”. If that failed, perchance a writer of some renown. Or some kind of respected scientist pointing expensive lasers at things and wearing tweed. [...]
