The gulf between the best and the rest was given another airing as man. city played Newcastle in the f.a cup. Adopting a defensive strategy was always the play for…
Month: June 2020
Juneteenth
Southern trees have a strange fruit Blood at the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies twistin in the summer breeze Strange fruit hangin from the poplar trees. The…
Free water
Not all that long ago some scientists were saying that we were on the cusp of a new era of such technological wizardry that ‘squanderable energy’ was just around the…
You’re a hard man Kirby
‘You’re a hard man Kirby’. The solemn judgement of cop A as with the back up of three other interrogators he expressed his frustration at the direction of progress in…
The auld pig buyers of Ballybricken February 2020
The auld pig buyers of Ballybricken must be spinning in their graves. No Fine Gael TD in Waterford for first time. Adding to their subterranean apoplexy will be the fact…
The big wink (April 2020)
Only a fool could fail to sympathise with the victims of the coronavirus. Through no fault of their own they find themselves stuck in quarantine on ships or in hotels…
Ice in your knickers ( 04 March 2020)
As the future king of England does his thing above in Dublin and looks forward to his trip along the wild Atlantic way his thoughts, no less than the rest…
The Gipper (26 March 2020)
I’m from the government and I’m here to help’. When he was campaigning for the presidency in 1980 Ronald Reagan said these words should strike terror into the heart of…
Pestilence
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding dong of gloom has clanged and faded from the last…
Jamie Carragher bleeds red
Having seen carragher make yet another last ditch tackle the pundit said to Tyler ‘if you cut Jamie open he would bleed............’ ‘red? offered Tyler the commentator sheepishly, but we…