This is it, boys, this is war

In the morning, we hit the road for Dublin, me and the kid and about eight million other Limerick people as well. Better make sure the old red shirt isn't [...]

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Giving offence

Question: What's the difference between Serbian, Croatian, Serbo-Croat and Bosnian? Answer: None. Linguistically, it's about the same as the difference between Dublin English and Cork English, except there's no Yugoslav [...]

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Losing hearts and minds

Today's hilarious episode of the Morris Tribunal brought us Sgt John White's testimony, in which he revealed a deep understanding of human emotion. Evidence had been given earlier that Mrs [...]

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Horse sense

I love Lidl. Their special offers are just great, and they manage to keep us in a constant state of joyous expectation, but it would be hard to beat next [...]

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Rain Debate

Years and years and years ago (cos I'm incredibly old, and can remember such things) there was an American series on TV, called The Invaders. A Quinn-Martin production, like Rockford, [...]

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Gardai Deny Everything

The Morris Tribunal took a further twist today when Garda Joan Gallagher denied ever having done anything. Throughout the questioning, Gda Gallagher addressed the Tribunal in the Garda Dialect. "I [...]

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Home of the Oyster

Driving to Galway this morning, I noticed a sign: Welcome to Clarinbridge. Home of the Oyster. Wait a minute. The Oyster? Wasn't that one of those Dublin criminals, like the [...]

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Gardai Deny Farting At Suspect

It was another day of dramatic developments at the Morris Tribunal. In an emotional statement, Detective Sergeant John White denied breaking wind in a suspect's face. "Read my lips," said [...]

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Smoking

I stopped smoking about three years ago. It was one of the few good decisions I've made in my life and, since that day, I haven't missed cigarettes at all. [...]

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If 'twas a dog. 'twould bite you

I was chatting to a friend yesterday, as one does, and he mentioned that somebody was dead. I knew he was wrong, but even though I was the one correcting [...]

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