Sometimes I’d be concerned that when I am out for a walk a lulu would jump out from the bushes and grab me. You never know what kind of characters are out there. But then again, you can’t live your life like that, you just have to be careful. Sometimes, I just like to vanish […]
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Down wi da kidz
Educated by St. Mary’s, Midleton students at BT Scientists on “cat fishing”. Check it before allowing your child on Facebook. Fab project. — Niall O Neill (@Corneliusoneill) January 13, 2014 Midleton town mayor issues an umber alert. And he’d know about how terrible choices can affect future generations – he’s a member of Fianna Fáil. […]
The unbearable lightness of being an ardent FF supporter
‘This smile is painted on’. Angela Kerins was Fianna Fail. And not just common or garden Fianna Fail either. She ran for the party’s national executive. She went to the annual Ard Fheiseanna. She chaired the Women’s Political Association and pushed for the promotion of Fianna Fail women. She was so assertive politically that people […]
The Shindependenting
‘Well, that’s the flyers done. Time to get out and meet my public’. Still, at least it’s better than Fianna Fáil’s approach to the local elections: Indeed it is Micheál. Indeed it is. Flyers via the excellent Irish Election Literature.
Claddaaffi
Una Claffey and the Today Tonight team interview Libyan Dictator Muammar Ghadaafi in October 1986. This was Today Tonight’s second trip to Tripoli seeking an interview with Ghadaafi. He was known to be a supporter of the Provisional IRA and later shown to have been their biggest provider of arms and explosives. He was held […]
And after a long dark winter, the sun emerges through the cracks in Newgrange
And with it comes the promise of a better tomorrow. Bertie gets caught between a rock and hard place in Newgrange in 1999. What a legend.