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Monthly Archives: November 2009

an almost biblical landscape

Comments Off Posted by on November 30, 2009

This was on the Irish Times website today: I sure it is the same place at around 1 minute into this clip in last nights 9 news. They have the bishop of clonfert, some distressed members of his flock and another flock (of sheep) in a flooded field. Jim Fahy says it is an almost [...]

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do we not sail on the ship of fools?

4 Comments Posted by on November 29, 2009

Toast is feeling ill and so is Fintan O’Toole. I found this on guardian.co.uk, he is kicking the downed tiger with a new book: The luck of the Irish has finally run out. Having roared away lustily for a decade or so, the Celtic Tiger has now rolled over on its back, all four paws [...]

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is ronan o gara fucked ?

5 Comments Posted by on November 28, 2009

Updated photo from RWC 2011. People are finding this blog every now and again by searching for “why do people hate ronan o’gara”, “ronan o’gara drunk”, “ronan o’gara wife / wedding”, “ronan o’gara rides your wife”, “brian o’driscoll ronan o’gara wife”, “ronan o’gara moustache” (wtf) Somebody in Australia looked to see if “ronan o’gara is [...]

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a blog about a blog

Comments Off Posted by on November 27, 2009

http://www.caseypedia.com/wiki/Main_Page is very clever and looks like wikipedia. It chronicles the creators absolute hatred of one man and his failure at everything. The blog was started by Serin in early September 2006, in what seemed to many people to be an honest attempt to deal with the enormous problem of being in possession of eight [...]

other, rants, satire

anger is a gift

Comments Off Posted by on November 27, 2009

Anger is a gift according to Rage against the Machine. There is certainly a noticible defiance this week in some people I have come across but I am not sure if it is a good thing. A lady driving in a Honda saloon of some sort who was reversing into my car when I came [...]

civil disorder, dublin, other, rants , , ,

shoddy workmanship

2 Comments Posted by on November 25, 2009

It reminded me of the visiting priest in Fr Ted who breaks up his book case while screaming “shoddy workmanship Ted, shoddy, shoddy, shoddy“. irishtimes.com: Three blocks of a Dublin apartment complex have been evacuated this morning after roofing was blown off. The incident occurred at Carrickmines Manor development on the Glenamuck Road, Dublin 18. [...]

dublin, other

fumble in a greasy till

Comments Off Posted by on November 24, 2009

September 1913 , WB Yeats. What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary [...]

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striker, striker, STRIKER

3 Comments Posted by on November 24, 2009

The question has been asked on politics.ie: “Are public servants to blame for Dublin’s traffic?” Here is how the roads look at lunch time today: It appears those who dont want to be called scabs or blacklegs have either spent the day lying in bed or have fucked off up the north to spend the [...]

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rogues gallery

Comments Off Posted by on November 23, 2009

here are the clowns who are running the worst operations you can think of. Images are clickable.

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denim fail

Comments Off Posted by on November 23, 2009

This guy was off to Kaunas. Kaunas is located at the confluence of the two largest Lithuanian rivers, the Nemunas and the Neris, and near the Kaunas Reservoir, the largest body of water entirely in Lithuania.

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