Like me, you probably try to think of something else when the subject of public money and its use comes up. If I can cite my own experience: when people mention the £40,000 a night cost of the Twaddell Caravan Park, I try to think of bunny rabbits and warm woollen mittens. I say ‘try’. Because […]
January, 2015
PS re ‘Booing the Bishop and other stories’
Further to my exciting news that my first collection of short stories, ‘Booing the Bishop and other stories’, is now available on Kindle for you and your Kindle-owning loved ones for the microscopic sum of less than £2: unforgivably I forgot to mention that the book’s Kindle cover was designed by none other than the […]
WHAT’S ANOTHER YEAR by Harry McAvinchey
Another New Year’s Honours List …. in big Capital letters. It’s a very important thing you see…and another Big Row to go with it. The Christmas festivities are obviously over. They must be , because I’ve already stowed all the decorations and geegaws back in the darkness of the attic . They’ll not sparkle for […]
Important announcement (well it is to me)
As someone to whom modesty comes as second nature, I find it difficult to announce but announce it I must. If you are fortunate enough to have a Kindle or know someone in that happy position, you can now buy my first collection of short stories Booing the Bishop and other stories. The price? Laughably […]
Ched Evans: putting the boot in
The soccer club Oldham Athletic appear to be in trouble. Thousands of people – including many fans of the club – have signed a petition urging them not to sign Ched Evans, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years for raping a 19-year-old girl. The people organising the petition say: “Ched Evans is a convicted rapist. […]
LAUGH…. DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH by Harry McAvinchey
Is it just me ? ….No I don’t think so .I might have a highly developed sense of the absurd, having spent a lifetime reading all the “wrong” books and watching all the “wrong” films. I do think I have a fairly highly developed sense of humour …even if it is a little dark at […]
Remembering Charlie
As often happens, today’s ‘Sunday Sequence’ on BBC Radio Ulster/Raidio Uladh had an interesting discussion. It arose from the fact that tonight RTÉ starts a dramatised series of programmes about Charlie Haughey. One of the things for which Haughey is despised is that he took money raised for the medical treatment of his loyal follower […]
Prince Andrew is innocent
A: God but they’re a corrupt shower B: Who? A: The Royals – the Windsors. Particularly that Andrew one. B: What’s he done now? A: You mean who. The word is out that he had sex with this under-age girl who was ‘loaned’ to him by some uber-wealthy, uber-disgusting rich guy in the US. B: […]
MOTHER EARTH AND THE POPE FIGHT BACK by Harry McAvinchey
Is the Pope an old hippy at heart? It’s beginning to look like that. For Pope Francis , it is not enough to put up a few wind -turbines and some solar panels on the roof of the Vatican to reduce his own personal carbon footprint . He is preparing in the coming months […]
What good’s an Assembly without an Opposition?
As we reel into the ghastliness that is January, two politicians are catching the public eye. One was Micheal Martin, the leader of Fianna Fail, who has declared that his party could become the biggest party in the twenty-six counties. He has “strongly ruled out” coalition with Fine Gael because they’re “too right-wing” and with […]