Posted in Shipwrecks, Gunrunning, Maritime Traditions, Ireland on Sep 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
On hearing this news, were I in Dublin, I’d probably have ended up in that dacent pub on a corner on the North Strand (you know the one..) sniffling into a good pint of Guinness… Well, to be honest, I’d probably opt for the preceding solution whatever the circumstances… I do admit though, I was […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Marx, Irish Society, Irish social history, Irish History, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m standing at the corner of Cathal Brugha Street and Thomas Lane, waiting for my friend Lida to arrive. She’s starting up her own business soon, and wants me to write a blurb for the website. The buses are running a bit late but she gets here around 6.30pm and so we head off for […]
Posted in Spain, Ireland on Sep 11th, 2008 10 Comments »
I first came across this on Voices en Español, one of my favourite Spanish learning blogs. A pretty funny homage to telenovelas and crap Spanish speakers (like me).
Enjoy.
Posted in Georgia, football, Ireland on Sep 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
[ Photo pinched from bbc.co.uk / AP ]
Very likely due to the fact I’m just sitting in front of the PC in a town Nostradamus used to live in to listen to the Republic-Georgia match on the radio , I’ve got that doom-laden feeling in my guts again. Perhaps it’s also due to us being […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Marx, Irish Society, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Sep 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
It is not the poverty
Of soil in Leitrim that makes me raise my hat
To fools with fifty pounds in a paper bank” (Lough Derg, Kavanagh)
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “he who tires of Bray, tires of life”. And there’s more than a line of truth in that one. As for myself, today […]
Posted in Comedy, Flann O'Brien, dublin, Ireland on Sep 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
[ K. McAleer lifted from timeout.com / D. Allen half inched from, ahem, timesonline.co.uk ]
Conor’s post last week (complete with a graph) on comics, their politics, their funniness and the correlations between the three ( Balance and Comedy do not Mix ) got me thinking on some of the comics missing from the […]
Posted in dublin, Ireland on Aug 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
This is a strange one for Dublin Opinion. My brother-in-law sent me the link. From what I can gather it’s from an unmarked Garda car doing the rounds in Clondalkin/Neilstown. The clip itself has been doing the rounds via Bluetooth for the last couple of months, but somebody got around to putting it up on […]
Posted in fuckwits, muppets, Fine Gael, Property on Aug 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Enda Kenny was speaking yesterday about the economy. He was at the Humbert Summer School, and although he didn’t mention free laptops for schoolkids, or annual reports, or segregation, or hijabs, he did however criticise the government, calling it “devoid of ideas.”
Now, we all know about Fine Gael and ideas. The average Fine Gaeler has […]
Posted in Ireland on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
What’s this, a ‘debate’ (nee “Blith and Arrogant Dismissiveness of Differing Points of View” or BaADD-PV) on Dublin Opinion about education and immigration!! I could barely believe by screen scorched eyes when I let their frazzled irises expand on the blog this morning.
And I was so busy writing about what a tosser Denis O’Brien […]
Posted in pubs, dublin, Planning, Property on Aug 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Frequently, during my occasional trips back to Dublin, I find myself transformed into one of those sort of ex-pats that rattle off letters to the Irish Times once home complaining about everything. Where should I start, Mr. Editor ? - the litter, the general grubbiness, the inflated prices, the standard issue shellsuits, the obese teenagers… […]