Author Harry McAvinchey

What fun it is going to be in these coming years …… As the new Fascist Dictator of the World In Chains sat down like some bloated cartoon pig ,straight out of Looney Tunes ,as voiced by Mel Blanc, his tiny deep set eyes and tight arse-hole of a moue, peeking rat-like from amid the […]

An old friend returned. It was the wife who saw him first .We were walking alongside the river bank just as the snows had begun to clear. The fallen leaves were an umber and sienna mulch underfoot. Of course, I was negotiating a particularly squidgy muddy track ,assessing the glour and the glit, all the […]

I don’t really read “the Irish News” regularly.I might pick it up in the barber’s once- a -month and scan through it while awaiting my turn in the chair. I’ll peruse through it and “the Newsletter” , flicking pages ,just to compare through which particular, specific prism the same world we all share , is […]

A wonderful word that “differ” .Look at it ; doesn’t it look just a bit odd when you pull it out of context ? Words taken in isolation are wonderfully abstract things to look at , aren’t they? What about the word “agreement” sitting there too? Agreement ? So what does it mean to you […]

Are you feeling up for a bit of a laugh? Fancy getting that old funny -bone tickled with a goose-down feather for a change ,instead of sitting about with a long horse’s face? It’s my usual thing to see the funny side of life ,if it is obviously daft as a box full of frogs […]

“As sure as apples is apples and oranges is oranges” It is laughably ridiculous. Sammy Wilson of the DUP is on the radio now talking about anything but the real reason the Executive had to be closed down and why his party colleague Arlene Foster had to be made step down. Let’s make no bones […]

WHAT CORRUPTION? WHAT SCANDALS? “SOOT FOR LOOT , GIVE ARLENE THE BOOT!” What has this latest debacle taught us all about our relationships? The DUP are very obviously still at war . They seemed to have never stopped being at war,even during peace-times and ,by default, so are all those who vote for them.They still […]

  Even when deposed and cast from her throne the Mad Queen of Norneverland continued to rant to her ex-courtiers that none of it was her fault.some of them gathered in fear to comfort her but it was to no avail because they had already also quaffed down the same hallucinogenic venom that a dastardly […]

Weeks later…or is it months now? This “Cash for “Ash or “Soot for Loot ” scandal ,as our own Perkin Warbeck so succinctly and colourfully put it , seems to have been running forever now . We’ve chewed over all of the details and masticated every nuance and slippery phrase until it has been rendered […]

“Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman Giving all your love to just one man You’ll have bad times, and he’ll have good times Doin’ things that you don’t understand” By Tammy Wynette So Arlene Foster , our esteemed First minister , is a victim then. She’s one of the million of us who had […]