The holiday makers arrived home from not-Galway at the weekend. I made sure their cat and Gold Finger, the fish, looked well fed and content (using drugs and a stomach pump). They knew their bath was to be used for a project at some point, but they didn’t know it already had been used. In [...]
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I miss my home, my baroque princess bed, Romeo my iguana and, of course, my family.
Tiffany’s has yet to open a branch in Co. Meath but Mum was kind enough to treat me to a full Irish in a posh café.
Medicine seems like the trajectory for me, but if I don’t like [...]
I don’t like Fridays. I hate Fridays. Fridays are when people remember what they needed done during the week but forgot to ask about. They clear their desks of that niggly chore that’s been on their to-do list since Monday and swamp mine. Friday gone was no different and I was running around like [...]
At the post office
Is that O-N or A-N? – An Irish lady making out a cheque to An Post.
In the checkout queue
Three years I’m here. Three years and I’m still a blow-in. – If you know small towns, no explanation is needed.
In the pub
You’re like the back of my bollix – you see nothing but [...]
»» In the list of top 20 programmes favoured by 20 to 44-year-olds, audiences are increasingly turning to Today FM. Half of the top 20 shows are Today FM shows – the Ray D’Arcy Show is number two with this younger audience after Gerry Ryan, who takes the top slot, with 248,000 and 327,000 [...]
Tempus fugit – time flees – not time flies as is the common misconception. That would be something like tempus volvit, but the linguist among us can correct me – over to you Gayé. How we came to translate it as time flies is just probably that it makes more sense in English that way.
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