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August Schmaugust! 20 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
Things I don't like about late August. I've become Bruce Willis of Die Hard of the Wasps. I edge along the wall in the kitchen before I kick it open to attempt to hang washing. That's it, it's al...
A mini guide to relationships - Brehon style. 16 Jul 2013 | 10:19 pm
My sister sent this piece to me today, an extract from Brehon Law. I am particularly looking forward to being old and having my head washed every Saturday by my kids. I also took a note and entered ...
Postcard from Dublin - it's 29 degrees ya know? 11 Jul 2013 | 02:19 am
........It's 29 degrees ya know, everyone's saying...it'll be hotter tomorrow...jaysus, i'm not able for it....'I'm scarlet', the girl wearing a bikini said as she wheeled her baby over the train trac...
Magpie 151 - Even Marketing Girls get the Blues. 15 Jan 2013 | 02:35 pm
This is how it goes. At noon, my boss, Quentin Parker-Jones (with a couple of Roman Numerals) takes off his tie. He stands up, undoes the top button of his shirt, pounds his chest and makes a Tarzan ...
Boyne Berries 12 - launch 26 Sep 2012 | 02:15 pm
photo of Professor Gregory Castle, who is launching the publication. I'm delighted that my prose piece 'Farewell Quaintsville', is to be included in 'Boyne Berries 12', which is being launched by th...
A walk around Dublin 2011 on Bloomsday - my version 28 Aug 2012 | 11:02 pm
Channelling James Joyce, A walk around Dublin 2011 ....sure I'd get off the bus at Parnell Square and pop over to the Garden of Remembrance stepping down the steps and tripping over the junkies and t...
Mag 93 'Porcelain Skinned' 28 Aug 2012 | 10:49 pm
No-one else sees that girl on the sofa. She's nine, maybe ten, scabby knees and a runny nose, she holds a porcelain doll...always... Each morning as the bus travels through the tunnel, I vow not to me...
Magpie 94 'Brody Double-barrelled name' 28 Aug 2012 | 10:33 pm
'Lunch' by George Tooker. Brody Double-barrelled name lived in a world where seasons were verbs rather than nouns. He summered in a lazy seaside town wearing old plimsolls and real gold He had marrie...
Farewell for a while 18 Jun 2012 | 06:43 pm
I've been blogging since the start of 2010. I have met some lovely people throughout the two years, some just in cyberspace and others that I have had the pleasure of meeting in the real world. I ha...
Spain who? 15 Jun 2012 | 04:53 pm
We lost to a great team last night in the Euro 2012 Football Championship. Spain 4 Ireland 0 photo from Irish Independent online. But we have the greatest fans and in the team's darkest moments, d...
