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05/31/10--08:57: €12 Billion more for Anglo Irish Bank (chan 1391380)

That’s €24 Billion in total. And we sit on our asses doing nothing. This is your money and your grandchildren’s money


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06/01/10--12:42: The constant jogger (chan 1391380)

Anyone ever seen her? Runs along the canal in a skirt and rain jacket. Wears a small ill-fitting backpack. Very skinny. Looks a bit touched. Have also see her out in Blackrock and in Crumlin. Seems to run a very long distance every day. I’m intrigued.


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06/03/10--06:17: What do you do… (chan 1391380)

when an ex-girlfriend tells you her current boyfriend hits her? An educated, intelligent, attractive and independent woman somehow ends up living with her abusive boyfriend. How does it happen and why is she already forgiving him? “It was only once and I hit him back” (The first excuse)


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06/21/10--13:30: Front Window (chan 1391380)

1) The small scruffy dog across the road who’s let out for his evening sniff and/or bark at the dog three doors down. 2) The girl who walks along most evenings while reading a novel. 3) The very old lady who flies along on her Triumph 20 bicycle with a healthy disregard for motorised traffic. [...]


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06/24/10--01:03: Europe-wide protest June 25th (chan 1391380)

There is to be a European wide protest at greedy financiers and their political servants this coming Saturday 25th June. The Dublin protest will be at Central Bank plaza at 1pm in case you fancy coming along and showing your support for ordinary Irish and our fellow Europeans. Details on the PBPA wesbite.


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07/02/10--07:07: Quick economics lesson – Redistribution of wealth (chan 1391380)

1. Greedy Developers inflate property market bubble until it pops. 2. Massive debts transferred to NAMA. 3. Tax money from workers pay packets paid into banks to prevent them collapsing. 4. Banks stop lending to the very people who bailed them out. 5. Banks go back to the 1980s mentality and lend to friends and [...]


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07/05/10--04:44: The Unusual Storm (chan 1391380)

By Sunday morning, the streets were littered with fallen leaves. But green leaves, an annex of autumn in the middle of Summer. No rustling or crunching, just springy leaves too weak to hold on. Early death in the peak of their lives. A storm blew in hard overnight and gave everything a workout, toupees and [...]


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07/06/10--06:49: The direct effect of bank bailouts (chan 1391380)

Morgan inspected the plump green bogey he had just plucked from his right nostril. It was a warm summer day. He was lying by the pool in his five acre estate on the southern Sardinian coast. Morgan then glanced over his fat tanned belly, past his fat toes to his boat which sat in the [...]


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07/15/10--16:47: White Flash (chan 1391380)

Lashings of warm fat summer rain bounce off the footpath as I hop up the steps to my cosy abode. An umbrella wide and firm directs the luscious drops to group and pool. A vigorous shake before stepping inside. Bedroom window opened to the music to follow.  White flash. An approaching rumble.  Under my duvet, [...]


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07/26/10--12:19: The stunt pilot (chan 1391380)

On Friday evening, I pulled the car into the hard shoulder of the motorway because I thought I witnessed a small plane lose control and crash into a field nearby. It took a number of seconds to come to a safe halt well off the road. Not really knowing what I should do first, I [...]


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08/03/10--12:41: Judgement Day (chan 1391380)

He was wheezing for hours. We were all here now. All six of us and occasionally a niece would be brought in to witness a great Irish tradition, the dying. He wasn’t a bad man. He was a good provider and a good husband but not a great father. We were an irritation most of [...]


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08/15/10--15:34: And those were days of roses (chan 1391380)

I find myself on a warm summer’s Sunday evening ensconced too near the wrong end of the bar in Grogan’s. A motley crew of fools and losers ply their trade to the next unwitting tourist, hungry for the banter. The quip, the wit, the sadness of hopes poisoned by selfishness and weakness. For banter is [...]


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09/01/10--14:40: This week I’ll mostly be using (chan 1391380)

…the word ‘Scritch’, courtesy of R.J. Ellory. Great man to set the scene but his endings are a tad frayed.


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09/09/10--12:25: Arthur’s Day (chan 1391380)

On September 23rd this year, thousands of morons will ape the current TV ad promoting Arthur’s Day and raise a pint of Diageo Black to the bleating of ‘To Arthur”. Many will do this into my face as I sit bemused wishing I ordered a Beamish instead. Some may even tell me to cheer up [...]


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09/14/10--07:57: 50 Reasons not to vote Fianna Fail (chan 1391380)

Never again 1. Dermot Ahern 2. Dermot Ahern 3. Brian Cowen 4. Mary Hanafin 5. Mary Harney 6. Mary O’Rourke 7. Mary Coughlan 8. Eamon O’Cuiv 9. Dara Colleary 10. Bertie Ahern 11. Dermot Ahern 12. Maurice Ahern 13. Brian Lenihan 14. Conor Lenihan 15. Barry Andrews (I’m entitled to this. It’s in the blood) [...]


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09/17/10--05:16: Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh (chan 1391380)

Mid 1970s, late summer, Brittas Bay. An indian summer’s day and all the Dads are sitting in their orange Opel Reckords, brown Ford Cortinas or light green Hillman Hunters. The doors all opened to cool the car from the smothering heat of leatherette seats. Flasks of tea on the dashboard and a sandwich in the [...]


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09/21/10--08:45: In one year, the average Irish person (chan 1391380)

Eats 135 potatoes Drinks 23 pints of stout Says ‘grand’ 1,937 times Listens to Joe Duffy for 44 hours Spends €9,322 on debts Reads the Irish Independent 250 times Farts 12,000 cubic metres of methane gas Trips (and looks back) 26 times Drives 43,000 kms Takes five times more odd numbered buses than even numbered [...]


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09/29/10--02:25: Oireachtas e-mail addresses (chan 1391380)

Just in case you fancy e-mailing your representative to tell them how pissed off you are. Or maybe ask them why a T.D. (P.J. Sheehan) who poked and threatened the career of a female Garda got away scott free with a much delayed apology while a desperate man who drove his truck into the gate [...]


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10/07/10--15:57: Holemaster’s Randoms (chan 1391380)

Every single bicycle I’ve ever owned has been stolen. I got one back though, after it was gone for two years. Every car I’ve owned has been broken into. One was stolen and never seen again. At least, not by … Continue reading →


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10/13/10--06:27: Anglo is not my debt (chan 1391380)

As JC Skinner mentioned here, Anglo Irish Bank is not his debt. It’s not my debt or your debt. It’s the debt of a very small number of people who are still parading around in Land Rover Sports and M … Continue reading →


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