Pubs to serve high visibility jackets, read Tim O’Brien’s piece in Friday’s Irish Times.
Members of the Vintners Federation of Ireland will loan out 30,000 hi-viz jackets, presumably paid for by FBD (Insurance), in 4,200 rural pubs nationwide. Mr. O’Brien reports that 10% of pedestrians killed in 2003 were drunk and lying on the road.
This latest [...]
The invitation came hand-delivered. Nice touch.
“Session on for the Young Lad’s 40th in one of the sheds on the farm. Don’t tell him – it’s a surprise. Dress cood [sic] western style. And don’t bring drink – there’ll be loads.”
Grand, says I. I’ll go to that. It’ll make feel old what with the Young Lad [...]
I see that portacabin the builder had in your garden’s gone, Sneezy. Take it back to the yard did he?
No. Sold it. Sort of.
Fair play to him. Say he got a few quid for it – it was a monster.
Dead right it was. 11 by 4½ metres. And high too.
So what did he get for [...]
For a couple of months now I have been hearing pub-talk about signs appearing on building sites in Poland saying “No Irish”. A kickback to the “No Irish need apply” signs that appeared in the UK after the war and the “No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs” signs on boarding houses in the 1960s.
Like all [...]
When he was younger he ran the family pub but left it to flirt briefly with the restaurant trade before returning to his true calling – pulling pints. And so he became know as the Re-publican.
A master of malapropism and maladroit with words generally, he has always been good for a giggle. On slow days [...]
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