- Primally wimally woo.
- What? What now?
- Nothin’. Just looking at the back of your paper. What’s a Sarko?
- Eh, Nicolas Sarkozy is the new president of France. Now go away - I’m reading the front of my paper. If you’d stop talking just for the sake of making noise, I’d get to read the [...]
Has anyone else noticed how many Irish people drop the four or five foreign words they remember from school into conversations with foreigners? And have you noticed they are always in the wrong language? A German will get bonjour and gracias. A Spaniard will get guten tag and merci. A Frenchman will get hola and [...]
I always look forward to Sarah Carey’s column in the Sunday Times. Even more so I look forward to reading the full version on her blog. She wrote an excellent piece a couple of weeks back on how non-believing Irish parents are being forced to have their children baptised etc. You can read it here [...]
My neighbour is a wise old man. He knows many things. He knows when it is a nice day. When it is a cold one. When the wind is from the north. That it’s a long walk to the village. That there are too many cars on the road. That the Murrays left their gate [...]
Saturday mornings used be great. Let the dog out of his kennel. Throw him a few fresh kittens. A big bowl of Wheatibangs for myself. Brew up a pot of coffee. Then sit back from 6:30 to 9:00 and watch back-to-back documentaries on RTÉ1. Two and a half hours of pure heaven.
That’s all changed. RTÉ [...]
MacKozer over at Ireland from a Polish Perspective is hosting a discussion forum where Irish people and Polish people living in Ireland can express their views, good, bad or indifferent, of each other. A multicultural exchange. He will be translating English comments and posting them on the Polish language version of his site, and visa [...]
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