Communities Helping Themselves

Communities Helping Themselves

Still surfing the wave of positivity from last night's meeting, I decided to practise what I preach and come up with some sort of a framework that might help us [...]

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Limerick Local Heroes Meeting

Limerick Local Heroes Meeting

When you manage to pack 500 people into a room and everybody agrees with the point of the meeting, it has to count as a big success.  When people contribute [...]

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Creating A Young Billionaire

Creating A Young Billionaire

As I flipped idly through the Forbes list of billionaires, alternating between astonishment and sheer, venomous resentment, I found myself searching for some kind of relief from the endless carousel [...]

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Insecurity

Insecurity

I know someone who is more than an acquaintance but less than a friend. He's an insecure snob, but still I like him.  I don't see so much of him [...]

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Beer and Beermaking

Beer and Beermaking

Beer is to thirst as fillet steak is to hunger.  In both cases, you could have something lighter to sate your desire, but nothing more complex, nothing richer, nothing more [...]

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Wonderful Links

The Library Phantom A local on-line newspaper produced by University of Limerick students.  Local but not parochial.  Much better than the commercial efforts, which has to tell you something about [...]

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Site Might Be Off Line For A Little While

Site Might Be Off Line For A Little While

Maintenance announcement

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A Day at the Seaside

A Day at the Seaside

Away for the day

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The King of the Spongers

The King of the Spongers

Parasite Royalty

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Tom Collins's 3 -- Nancy Blakes 2

Tom Collins's 3 — Nancy Blakes 2

Top-class football in Limerick

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