impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
I had a strange night in the suburbs at stepaside. I made the mistake of believing my old colleagues who said it was near the luas. I got directions over the phone from somebody from a romania who punctuated every sentence with the word “right”. I naturally got lost a few times. The place was [...]
I have been looking at what is happening in other parts of the world and then I see what is on TV3 (I know) in Ireland tonight, Friday night. I had not seen the Irish ‘come dine with me’ this but had read about it and was dreading it. They showed the finale of the [...]
I used to hate twitter but now I follow it for news. I do read some things from other people but most of the time I don’t see what they say unless I am in the mood for a diversion. I want to point out that I am not really into it for the celebrity [...]
From front page of Fridays FT
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 [...]
Some fucking asshole from the food safety authority was on the news yesterday saying: “The public is being urged to buy Irish in the wake of a deadly outbreak of E coli bacteria poisoning in Europe, which has claimed 10 lives and left hundreds seriously ill”. Such vile callousness for the people who have died [...]
(GENOA) – The latest sex abuse case to rock the Catholic Church is unfolding in the archdiocese of an influential Italian Cardinal, who has been working with Pope Benedict XVI on reforms to respond to prior scandals of pedophile priests. Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51 year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near [...]
I wonder if he got out and pushed. Its a bit Irish. Celebrate good Obama come on
After reading Morgan Kellys article in the Irish Times yesterday I cried from embarassment: the sole purpose of the Irish bailout was to frighten the Spanish into line with a vivid demonstration that EU rescues are not for the faint-hearted. And the ECB plan, so far anyway, has worked. Given a choice between being strung [...]
