Funny old world
I know someone who, as the saying goes, if he fell into shit, he’d come out smelling of roses. A few years ago, he (+ 1 wife, +1 child) got a ‘great’ (cancellation) deal on a 4 bed detached family house with 1 parking space and no front garden. There’s no visitor parking apparently. Both [...]
UK postal strike nears resolution
Postal workers in the UK have been on strike for the past few days. Their leaders have negotiated a settlement with management. Normal work will resume once the postal workers agree to the deal… …Once the deal is posted out to them. Then all they have to do is post the yea/nay forms back to [...]
Bertie
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Victory is ours – sorta
This has got to be an urban myth! Aughrim in Co Wicklow won the 2007 Tidy Towns competition. Apparently, one of the local councillors said that ‘pride’ had now been restored to the town after the 1691 Battle of Aughrim. Only problem is…the Battle of Aughrim took place in Co Galway on the opposite side [...]
The vernacular
Warning: Bad language alert… I was forced to listen to the Dublin V Kerry match on the radio today. My favourite quote occurred when a Kerry player received an injury in an off-the-ball incident. The commentator said: ‘I didn’t see what happened. I stress I didn’t see what happened so he may have injured himself [...]
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