• We demand legislation!
    I’m hoping the political Mick Wallace can give the First Division fan some solace by asking if the Minister for Sport might lend the aforementioned fan support by abolishing, with suitable propriety, the current two-tier system in society. At leader’s question time, he could harangue Joan Burton and the rest of the shebang and ask […]
  • Empire
    From ancient Rome, the conquering legions spread to kill and quell, to rob and subjugate. The vanquished tribes knelt down and mourned their dead. From British, Dutch and Spanish, millions fled as plundering galleons fostered fear and hate until the map became a sea of red. Stalin’s tanks inspired uncommon dread in many an East […]
  • Double standards?
    “Financial mismanagement!” they cried in derision, those FAI boys with a puritan heart. “Oh, Shelbourne, quake now, as we give our decision – this kind of thing must be stopped from the start. ‘Condemned now, you stand here, the scourge of the earth. The right and the just shall give you a wide berth. A […]
  • Not defeatist merely realistic
    As run-ins go, I’m not too optimistic With five banana skins still left to play. That’s not defeatist, merely realistic. It doesn’t take an ancient eastern mystic To know that Cork would love to spoil our day. As run-ins go, I’m not too optimistic. And it would be somewhat surrealistic To go and beat our […]
  • Butch Cassidy and Giller the Killer
    The deputy ordered a dry bourbon, neat, Tumbleweed rolled in great balls down the street. The bartender took all his shot glasses down When Giller and Casso came riding to town. “Its Giller the Killer, with Butch at his side,” The whispers flew round as folk hurried inside. The only sound heard was the noose […]