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Irish interest blog of writer Willie Walsh.
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The 9th of July....
...and I've just seen a truck going by the window delivering bags of coal.Wasn't there supposed to be a summer here around now??? ...
Garage a complete dud
We've enjoyed Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny in their parts as anarchic comedy duo, D'Unbelievables. We've enjoyed Shortt's multi-tasking in the television comedy, Killinaskully. We've enjoyed the bitter-...
St. Patrick's Weekend in Second Life
Yes, St Patrick's Weekend was celebrated in Second Life, not least in the various themed parties and meet ups in the clubs and bars there. Discover Ireland also arranged for a number of parades along ...
Eurovision 2008 preliminaries off to a flying (or at least a feathered) start
Following Ireland's last place finish with 5 points in the 2007 Eurovision song contest, the national broadcaster, RTÉ, is arranging the final preliminary round of choosing an Irish entrant for the 2...
Gas Leak sets me all headless chickenish
So anyhow, the plumber comes and goes and connects the gas line up and signs the certification papers and all is okay. There's some concrete needs finishing by Bord Gáis and also by the plumber. We'...
Turnover Toast, Part 2
This wonderful thing is a turnover loaf. My friend Joyce read my blog post on not being able to find a picture of one online and about remembering what it was like to eat this bread as a kid. She then...
Turnover toast
It's amazing, but I have not been able to find a photo online of a loaf of turnover bread! [But you can now see one here.] For those who don't know it, it's an Irish bread which is not one of the piec...
Rory Gallagher - Garbage Man
Trippin' to Malahide
So we ended up in Herself's aul' haunt, Malahide. Every time I go there, the tide is in. But I'm reliably informed there's a beach under the waves not far from the Sea Scout's HQ. Of course, the dunes...
Drogheda
"Are we there yet?""Don't start."Good journey out to Drogheda on the M50 and then the M1."What?""Oliver Plunkett's head. Where is it?""There's no head here!"It was in the 25-foot tall reliquary, near ...
Days of birds and heavy weather
These past few days. Firstly on the top deck of a bus sweltering along, looking at all and nothing. I noticed over the back gardens of houses off the Old Bawn Road a flock of starlings sweeping upwa...
Escaped traffic lights recaptured
A herd of traffic lights which had made a sensational escape from a depot of South Dublin County Council overnight were recaptured and corralled in Firhouse this morning.Under cover of darkness, the e...
So, this man goes to the doctor....
Amazing how quickly your six-month duration prescription runs out, especially when you dodged the hard questions about weight and blood pressure the last time because a Locum doctor was on duty.I gave...
I couldn't have won €16,185,749 anyway
"You never play Lotto," Herself tells me, as if I hadn't noticed not throwing away €312 a year."No, I don't.""You should play it today.""Why's that then?""It's over sixteen million Euro. We could w...
Under the weather
"I don't remember a Summer being this gloomy," Herself says. She is speaking about the weather, which showed definite promise in April when we got sunburn and optimism, but which, ever since, it seem...
You might have been in the wrong political party anyhow, missus
RTE radio's Morning Ireland programme, this morning. Twenty percent of the environmentally-savvy Green Party are ticked off that the party will be going into government with Fianna Fáil:Interviewer: ...