I’m guessing most people out there are familiar with muppets. Those puppet type things, well they aren’t what I’m taking about when I say muppet[1] Oh no! when I say muppet...
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but it is only Tuesday. Only tuesday! Do you know what that means. It means that I’ve had less than two full days at work....
Sun the 16th of Oct was the 115th anniversary of the birth of Michael Collins. And marking this date was the first ever meeting of the Collins 22 Society, which as...
This post could be listed under irishify if, that is, I bothered to explain the title. But I’m not gonna. I’ll save it for some other time. Or you can google. Whatever, its all good. All the time.
Where was I?
Ah yes, pigs. Or, to be more precise, Piglets.
Welcome to part two of Irish expressions taking over the world[1] Today’s term is yoke. As in an egg yoke. Or that thing that connects two draft horses (or various other...
Well now, there are quite a few topics in this post. But the question for me is, where to begin? With my sudden appreciation for an accent? of how work went?...
For a while now I’ve been meaning to go and check out some of Dublin’s tourist spots, and finally, inspired in part by Anne’s trips round Paris, I headed up to...
“These three men were intricately involved in the global terrorist network” the East Belfast MP said.
“Bertie Ahern would do well to remember the words of President Bush when he said: ‘those who harbour terrorists are terrorists’.”
Was browsing over on the Irish Independent’s site (reg or bugmenot req’d), and came across a letter on the topic of immigration. It was written agreeing with one in the paper the previous day. I hadn’t seen the first one, so took a peek. It’d make you wonder.
I usually don’t listen to the radio on the way home from work[1], but because of the attacks in London I did today. Luckily, they aren’t anywhere near the scale of...
In today’s Irish Times Tim O’Brien gives us a brief history lesson on Ireland’s crappy transport system. He uses as an example Alice, who traveled from Boyle to Bray on the...
I’ve been thinking of posting on this subject for a while, but I don’t really know the full story. And searching webland reveals a whole lot of noise, but not a lot of data. And maybe that is the problem.