May, 2012

Apologies, blog-readers – I’m off walking the Compostela de Santiago in a futile attempt to purge my many sins – will be back and annoying by the start of June at latest. Keep the faith Jude

Apologies, blog-readers – I’m off walking the Compostela de Santiago in a futile attempt to purge my many sins – will be back and annoying by the start of June at latest. Keep the faith Jude

I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if  Sinn Féin say no about something, I  say yes”. This man grew up in Donegal, lives in Donegal, works in Donegal.  That’s Donegal, the county that’s been […]

I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if  Sinn Féin say no about something, I  say yes”. This man grew up in Donegal, lives in Donegal, works in Donegal.  That’s Donegal, the county that’s been […]

Two interesting soccer-related pieces in today’s Irish Times.  Davy Adams  (a good man, in my experience,  and a good writer) has a go at James McClean, not, mark you, because McClean has chosen to play for the Republic of Ireland, but because of his reasons  for so doing. Davy goes into some detail about McClean […]

Two interesting soccer-related pieces in today’s Irish Times.  Davy Adams  (a good man, in my experience,  and a good writer) has a go at James McClean, not, mark you, because McClean has chosen to play for the Republic of Ireland, but because of his reasons  for so doing. Davy goes into some detail about McClean […]

Eh? Surely I misheard: the PSNI have been storing ‘body parts’ since 1960? When questioned they  refer to these bits as ‘human tissue’ but the fact remains that they’ve been storing parts of people – arms, legs, even skulls. Of course there was no PSNI in 1960, so it was the RUC that did most […]

Eh? Surely I misheard: the PSNI have been storing ‘body parts’ since 1960? When questioned they  refer to these bits as ‘human tissue’ but the fact remains that they’ve been storing parts of people – arms, legs, even skulls. Of course there was no PSNI in 1960, so it was the RUC that did most […]

I’ve been trying to decide why I like Joey Barton. I know I shouldn’t. He’s a generally vicious man, if the accounts of him off-field and on are accurate; and his performance in that final game against Man City didn’t cover him in glory. First an elbow in Carlos Tevez’s face, then a kick at […]

I’ve been trying to decide why I like Joey Barton. I know I shouldn’t. He’s a generally vicious man, if the accounts of him off-field and on are accurate; and his performance in that final game against Man City didn’t cover him in glory. First an elbow in Carlos Tevez’s face, then a kick at […]