On New Year’s Eve 2009 I made the 25 minute trip to a friends’ house to wipe their kids’ noses, change nappies, read bedtime stories and other fun New Year’s activities, while they went out to do something involving alcohol, singing and hugging strangers. It was freezing as I left home. The roads had not [...]
Kildare, unlike the west and south of the country, was relatively unscathed by the recent flooding. Some small pockets, most notably Johnstown and Sallins, were hit and hit badly. Even then the damage was confined to particular housing estates. I was visiting a client, a farmer, in one of those areas the other day. Small [...]
In the early noughties I worked for International Bungling Morons, or Big Blue Dolphin as I called them. You know the drill – six hour conference calls resulting in the decision to take the issue off-line; more off-line one-on-one meetings; 7 minutes actual work done. Luckily I wheedled my way out of that and into [...]
Below is this morning’s 3 Day Outlook from Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service. It will remain cold and unsettled for the rest of the Easter weekend. Good Friday night will be very cold, with a mixture of clear spells and scattered wintry showers. Frost and a risk of icy patches also. Holy Saturday [...]
A cool creamy pint of Guinness. You can’t beat it. I suppose that makes me a stereotype Irish male. A cool creamy pint while watching your horse win. Better still. That makes me a stereotype Kildare man. A love of national hunt and a disdain for the flat means I’m a north Kildare stereotype. But [...]
Right lads, where is it? The snow I mean. On the news last night they were issuing major weather alerts. They showed images of Dublin, where the roads were being gritted, with particular attention being paid to bus routes and around hospitals. Snow ploughs were fitted to the trucks for the first time in six [...]
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