They buried ‘Big Jack’ today. Back when he was a player in my schooldays he was never referred to as either Jack or Big Jack. Though I needed no reminding…
Category: Irish Society
Big Jack
The grim reaper came for another of England’s famous 1966 World Cup winning side On Friday as Jack Charlton bowed out at the age of 85. In Ireland the focus…
The three ugly sisters
The Italians have an old political saying which sez roughly ‘ if you’re not at the table your probably on the menu’. That this pearl of wisdom is not lost…
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…
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…
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…