Please spare a moment's thought for this poor fool, married to Ireland's Biggest Dickhead™ for a miserable 12 years today. #PrayForCiara #Condolences #NotOnTwitter pic.twitter.com/jMuDTQadsx — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) December 1, 2017 Week 37 of the column: Rejoice, cheapskates of Ireland – the stars have aligned and for the first time in decades, St Valentine’s Day, […]
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Run, fitness, fatness, run some more
Week 36 of the column, in which I stare at myself naked in the mirror, crying: The Rarámuri are an indigenous people who live in the mountains northwestern Mexico, in the Sierra Madre. They didn’t always live here – this is where they fled to when the Spanish arrived in the 16th Century, and their […]
Milkshake duck, Keaton Jones, blogging, my glittering career
Indo col week 33 In June last year, Australian cartoonist Ben Ward, known by his Twitter handle @PixellatedBoat, tweeted a joke. It was a simple three-line gag about a character named Milkshake Duck, the cartoon duck who everyone loves…until five seconds later when the duck is revealed as racist. The joke perfectly fit its […]
PTA, pride, failure, Brexit
Indo col week 32 It seems something of a miracle that I managed to avoid attending a parent-teacher meetings until last week. I always had great excuses for not being there – either work or just a complete lack of interest in going – but the day finally came where I could no longer avoid […]
Ikea, Amgen, elections, promises
Indo col 31 I woke my wife at 5.30am when I read the headline. She was panicked – where the kids ok? Was the house on fire? Had we won the Lotto? No, it was way more dramatic than that – Ikea might be coming to Cork. She sat up in the bed. ‘What?’ Exactly […]
Cars, freedom, men, Weinstein
Week 29: I am driving. Not as I write this – I’m not quite at that level of proficiency just yet, where I can stare down at a glowing screen in my lap while careering across lanes at 105kph. In fact, I’m not even at the stage where I can confidently pick my nose when […]
Gods, death, poppies, war
Week 28 of the column. Being an atheist is a lonely old slog. Most people will cling to the belief that there is something out there watching over us, be it Jesus, Yaweh, Allah or whatever MechaGodzilla the Scientologists funnel their taxes towards. Few people will actually offer such a bleak world view as the […]
RTE, Supremes, JFK, Duchas
Week 26, six months of being an opinionista and nobody has threatened to kill me yet, WTF am I doing wrong? It seems odd that I grew up in the age of one TV channel. It doesn’t seem like a million years ago, but I can still remember the excitement when Network Two […]
Powercuts, offaly, ophelia, sean hughes
Now facing the prospect of being stuck in Dublin for 24 hours and the name Ophelia sounds really terrible in their accent, please send help. — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) October 16, 2017 Week 25 of the column! Who woulda thunk it? Certainly not my guidance counsellor in school, who said I should be an engineer […]
Norovirus, flu, maccie d’s, Mickey d
Week 24 of the column and I finally get around to talking about my ass. Also, check out that layout up top: They used my name, like you would with other important thought leaders like David Quinn, John Waters, Ronan Mullen, or any of those other great guys who I am totally friends with on […]
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