Plain People of Ireland: (brightly) "Well", as the divil once said, "That's the Christmas over for another year thank God!"

Myself: Indeed. A bloated orgy of drink, turkey and ostentatious consumption…

Plain People of Ireland: (unsure) That's …

9.00 - Hup! Hup! Quiet down now.

Welcome dear friends, lads and lassies, boys and girls, mices and meeses, to the first ever fustar.info Manky Toy Show. We have a great live program (un)prepared for …

Like many unwashed, barefoot children of pre-SUV Ireland, the Late Late Toy Show was (far more than the birth of a certain Nazarene) what Christmas was all about for me. Uncle Gaybo & Star Wars merchandise (yay!), Wooden Toys, Billy …

The Story Concludes…

After Part Two's tales of horse colic, Neil Jordan, Flann O'Brien, Fortycoats, and 'Ould Mr. Brennan'…our story drifts gently towards its ending. My thanks (again) go out to Eugene for agreeing to chat (off the cuff) about …

The Story so far…

With Part 1 (and Eugene’s early days) behind us, our tale now winds its way toward the promised land of Part 2…and the arrival of a certain wagon.

Ready boys and …

Though I'm not someone who has much time for the kind of indiscriminate nostalgia expressed in the likes of I Love Nineteen-Eighty-Whatever etc., there are (undoubtedly) certain television shows from my childhood (the ones with an indescribable 'something') that …