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Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 3 – Great Coffee, Great Friends

Look, we all hate ourselves. You. Me. The postman. The elderly woman you sat beside on the bus this morning. We all sob ourselves to...

Early yesterday morning – as the wife the daughter, and the husband/father (i.e. myself) strode (and rolled) towards the Milk...

Back in 1983, while in Mrs. Clifford's third class, I won a copy of The Citadel of Chaos for drawing a picture of an elephant. Then,...

The “recession chic�? juggernaut of journalistic puke has no doubt inspired hacks to spew forth acres of “content�? detailing...

This lunchtime, while the rest of you stuffed your faces with fancy sangwiches, I went on a not-very-dangerous, undercover, guerilla...

5 minutes after reading Suzy's post on nekkid Brian Cowen "picturegate" (and RTÉ's craven and vomit-inducing climb down) I distilled...

Earlier this afternoon, as Jess & I sat watching a Kerrywoman pull a plastic baby out of a woolen womb, a single A4 sheet was...

And so the brother (he who used to love jam sandwiches more than life itself) is married. Saturday's celebratory fancy dress part-tay...

This Halloween sees me (somewhat reluctantly) abandoning my usual routine. There'll be no carving of turnips,1 no careful choosing...

1) "What Was it?" (pdf) (html) (Google Books) Despite being described variously as "a lion of literary New York", "a Poe in the...

If there's one lesson I've learned from my numerous trips to charity shops (on both sides of the Irish sea) it is (alas) to expect...

An alarming headline from today's Limerick Post. While I know that Tesco have (over the last number of years) been aggressively seeking...

After a very pleasant 10 days spent holidaying in beautiful Kerry, I've passed the last 72 hours (and counting) laid up in bed with...

Apologies if you've just spurted your precious morning coffee all over your keyboard, but the above graffito does indeed say what...

I'm not sure to what extent "Grafitti Studies" has (as a discipline) permeated academic institutions, but I'd be surprised if the...

brynh: It wasn't first and as I see nor the last time that Italy pl...
Pat: I cannot wait till that gobshite Cathal Crowe calls to my do...
Wayne Flanagan Tobin: hahaha!!! YAWN !!! :-)...
louise le bas: Thank you for a fabulous chat with Eugene Lambert R.I.P. it...
fústar: John - Thanks. Might try and float it round, if time permits...

@Fergal I have an old dog-eared, yellowing-paged Faber & Faber complete Emily D volume. It means a lot to me. Like a comfort blanket. # 22 mins ago

@Fergal We're heading toward "Sure I haven't studied either" levels of mutual set-your-mind-at-ease-ment. # 42 mins ago

I think I may write a blog post. The old place is looking neglected. Like a rusting Austin Princess. Or a damp red wheelbarrow. # 50 mins ago

@Tupp_Ed My dinner was a melange of Eastern & Western influences. So you're not far wrong. # 53 mins ago