Kildoon, Co. Kildare, Summer 1979

The sun was like honey on our faces as we piled out of the car onto hard dry caked clay. No rain in weeks. The dust trail of the car now half way across the field and as if we were in Texas. Flat and wide, the fields that surround the meagre cottage with small [...]

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Whooaah!

So there I am this morning, having a cheerful shower in the sunny bathroom, fresh air breezing in through the window. Oh what’s that tickling on my chest? Oh a hair. Oh not a hair, too thick and stiff, oh fuck, a spider’s leg. Oh and there’s another one on my leg, ah jesus there’s [...]

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Isla Fisher moving to Dublin

Yes Maxi, you read it right the minx herself is going to be all over me very soon. I hereby bags her in advance, both home and away.
Read all about it here.
 

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Grand canal thoughts

 
 
 
I’ve written about it before here. I never tire of it though, this man-made wonder, a former highway of trade. Today on the way in to work, the water was a milky green, like pea soup only not really but kind of. I drifted off… I imagined how I’d love to take a big old [...]

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The stoning of a muslim woman

She first started acting in television shows, most notably about a bengali rock band which was frowned upon for the child of a muslim parent in Calcutta. Following this, she was only 20 when she acted in India’s first digitally shot feature film in which she has a lesbian kissing scene with the leading actress. [...]

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About bloody time

At long last, people who cannot pay their debts, will no longer go to jail thanks to this court case. The only people who ever went to jail were ordinary joes and janes who probably only owed a few grand to the bank but never a white collar gangster who owed millions. Proof that the [...]

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The new sectarianism

For thirty years or more, sectarian flames of hatred were fanned by wealthy business and land owners in Northern Ireland in order to distract from the real trouble there which was in fact oppression of the working class of both religions. But the legacy of all that blind hatred seems to be the playing out [...]

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The barbers

Went to the barber today. He’s an old codger in Ranelagh. His shop is tiny with two chairs and a waiting bench with car magazines. The bottom half of the walls are dark paneled wood. The top half are rough painted plaster. There’s pictures, posters, postcards and stuff adorning them. I never have to wait [...]

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Xbox to be a Dad

I just discovered that XBox is going to be a Dad and his missus a Mam after a long time trying. His brilliant blog detailed the trials and tribulations of trying to conceive. As far as I can make out, they have been trying since 2007. So congratulations to Mr and Mrs XBox on their [...]

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