impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
Queen grateful to people of Cork for memorable visit A WARM thank you to the people of Cork has been extended by Queen Elizabeth for making her visit a memorable and honourable occasion. The welcome extended to the Queen by the people of Cork who lined the Grand Parade to see her was noted in [...]
Published on: May 28, 2011 @ 12:10 Is this really the best photo they could have used? He doesn’t look like he really cares. I made up a caption for it. This is interesting when compared to another Corkman and former Garda Dean Foley who was granted freedom in Cork city. He was in court [...]
advertisers must find the cork accent is both amusing and authoritative
It would be unlike me to ignore Ronan O’Gara this week. He was set up by the media after all. First it was Kevin Myers having a go at him and every Irish person it seems. Ronan was then credited with this well written letter. I HAVE to reply to the scurrilous article by Kevin [...]
O stony grey soil of Monaghan The laugh from my love you thieved; You took the gay child of my passion And gave me your clod-conceived. You clogged the feet of my boyhood And I believed that my stumble Had the poise and stride of Apollo And his voice my thick-tongued mumble. You told me [...]
The Culchie Wrap (no audio available): Now being a Culchie is not so tough, you might look funny and a small bit rough, some of us are single and some are dads, but I’ll tell you one thing, we’re the finest lads. Its time to bring my Culchie Wrap to a close, I’ve to go [...]
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 [...]
mythicalireland.com: A book investigating the myth of Atlantis says that the mythical land was actually the island of Ireland. The claim is made by geologist Ulf Erlingsson in his book ‘Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land’, who is to visit Ireland on August 11 to 13. In his book Erlingsson bases his [...]
An old but good article from independent.ie: Beyond the pale By Pat Fitzpatrick, Sunday August 24 2008 With the culchie’s undignifed demotion to second-class citizen, Pat Fitzpatrick argues for a statue of The Unknown Culchie; a young fella in a Clare jersey, gearbag in one hand, Spar bag in the other, complete with ‘Evening Press’, [...]
