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Picture this

Friday, May 15th, 2009

There’s to be a wedding in July. A posh affair – she’s not even pregnant.
They’ll make a lovely couple. Good humoured, witty, hard-working and almost mentally stable.
The stag was last weekend. There’s not much to tell. A vow of omertà was taken I’m told.
There was a pre-hen party too. The chicken as the ladies called [...]

The Republican, Steeplejills and Bus Áras

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

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 [...]

Sally, the esoteric vegetablarian

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Look, I have to go. There’s someone at the door … huh? … no, don’t worry. I’m sure it’s perfectly fine to have sex before the first date. Here, I’ll call you in a day or two.
I dropped the phone and let Sally in. Not that I wanted to. Sally wrecks my head. One day [...]

A cute hoor?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

You can never be sure whether Eugene Duggan is extremely intelligent and witty, or just plain dumb. He claims to have been top of his class at school, but with few of his advanced years still with us and none that attended that particular school, he may be referring to seating arrangements.
He went to work [...]

A shite post

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I met Batt Mahon (you can guess his nickname) while getting the Sunday papers.
Jayzez, Batt, that dog of yours strolled across the road in front of me and I coming up the village just now. I was taking it handy, but yer man coming the other way nearly clipped him. And you, ya hoor, sitting [...]

The new dog

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

They weren’t living together long when Pat’s wife-to-be began dropping the phrase, pitter-patter of little feet, into conversation. So off to Joe-the-dog he and I went and bought a 14-week-old puppy. A beautiful Golden Retriever bitch.
A name. She would need a name. We took to the high stool, leaving the puppy to explore the bar, [...]

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