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 [...]
One’s feminine side
I saw a British car today with a personalised registration plate that began PM5. It was a black BMW X5 with tinted windows etc. I had a little chuckle to myself when I saw that the driver was male. On a similar note, I saw another man today today who would never induce queasiness and [...]
Fighting the system
Yesterday, I was reading a free copy of the Irish Indo in a cafe (I’d never buy the rag). The back page had a story about an English gang who had just gone on trial for allegedly stealing something like stg£50M last year. The proseceuting lawyer said it was done out of ‘greed’. Really? Today [...]
Thousands of Wong numbers
China runs out of surnames from The Register. China has been forced to mull the possibility of allowing double-barrelled surnames – a break with the ancient tradition that citizens adopt one of a hundred single character surnames… …In fact, other less common surnames bring the official total of permitted surnames to 161, but this doesn’t [...]
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