“I’m sick of being made to feel unwelcome in there. You’re being roared at to get out as soon as it reaches closing time and then you’re being shoe-horned into a too full, too loud disco bar that suits everyone except the punter. I just want to finish my pint in peace.”
I was complaining but [...]
Take the idiots out of Croke Park
29 July 2008
LAST summer, almost to the day, I was holed up in a blistering hot office in Cork. It was 11am on Monday morning and the sports desk of the Irish Examiner was gently easing itself into the day.
Suddenly it erupted. I returned from a weekend [...]
We were on one of those Irish journeys, bookended by food and the thoughts of food, when our steady flow through the midlands came to a halt as we approached Mountrath in Laois.
“This place badly needs a nucleur explosion,” announced our pilot to howls of laughter. There are many ways to register an insult but [...]
TwentyMajor takes up the argument that Irish blogs are crap because there’s a lack of argument but that’s only natural. It’s in the Irish psyche to be self defeating, to use of a forum of debate for something other than debate.
My mother insists that she won’t drive somewhere unless she’s driven there before. “I won’t [...]
A tribute to a friend who found life too much to bear
18 July 2008
ON Saturday I buried a friend. He was just 26, another young man who ended his own life. Another suicide, another life lost to addiction, depression and despair. He had been travelling down a dangerous road for too many years. In the [...]
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Batman restores our faith in blockbusters
25 July 2008
IT’S not normally a good time of the year for going to the cinema. Whatever harsh rains the Irish summer brings there’s no mistaking the sticky, sweaty feeling that brings us such discomfort at this time of the [...]
AM I provoking you or am I just an agnostic with too much time on his hands? Is it a question we can answer or is it a question that should never be asked?
Unfortunately it has to be asked because in this half-cracked society we’ve cooked up we’re discovering more ways of dying. We’re constantly [...]
