impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
Rossport: Finfacts.com On Tuesday, Asian business via the Asia edition of the Financial Times, woke up to a caption, “Desperate in Dublin,” and a story from Mayo on how a “retired schoolteacher and a handful of hill farmers and lobster pot fishermen has frustrated Ireland’s most important energy project.” The story was headlined: “Irish grass [...]
I drove to Cork on Saturday and back again today. It only takes 2 hours now and for the most part it is a motorway. I think it is fair to say that most Irish people have never had to drive on that much motorway in their lives and are slowly getting used to it. [...]
As follow up to plausibledeniability – it now appears the toll Bridge people have seen sense in the end. My ticket has gone through the system It went from: STR – Standard Toll Request UTN – Unpaid Toll Notice Prosecution Entity – that sounds a bit like robocop could have said it – how Orwellian. [...]
Not the national rifle association, the national roads authority. They are still demanding 95 euros for going across their crappy bridge even though I paid them (albeit a bit late but I was out of the country and they had some joke address for me). Where else would what should be maybe 20 euros within [...]
Apparently you cannot change the registration of an Irish car unless it has been repossesed by the CAB (criminal assets bureau). This renders this BMW M3 practically worthless unless you are unfortunate enough to come from that place.
these crack heads are at it again … one of them was on the radio before and when asked if they actually called any of the numbers the answer was “ermmmmmmmm” The use of ‘For Sale’ signs and phone numbers on cars by so-called ‘boy racers’ to organise road races should be outlawed, a Labour [...]
Herman Munster whose side lost in the Heineken cup: There were some pretty spectacular people and cars around Dublin this weekend, mostly due to the girls aloud concert but also the Heineken cup. The worst things that I saw were: The 07 Limerick Bentley who tried to kill a poor pedestrian who had the cheek [...]
A CRUSADING former garda determined to highlight speed traps designed to “shoot fish in a barrel” said he was harassed by gardaí who demanded his video camera and driving licence. Pensioner Frank Cullinane (68) – who served as a garda in Dublin for 30 years and now runs the Glasnevin School of Motoring with his [...]
I went to the gym last night just to use the sauna and steam room. The downstairs dressing room is like an old boys tennis club sometimes. As I walked down the hall to the dressing room I met a lady at the door. She asked me to see if there was a man with [...]
I am pretty much moved in, apart from the mountains of clothes in the spare room. I had a few small issues to work out with my new place. I left a note for DJ from Beaufort * Co. Kerry who owns the Cork registered golf that is parked in my space. He was nice [...]
