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Category Archives: Dublin
It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
“. . . There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’, it’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the Times they are a’Changin . . . ” . . . wrote Blind Boy Grunt sometime in Autumn sixtie … Continue reading
Posted in Banking, Business, Catholicism, Christmas, Civil society, Culture, Dublin, Economy, Europe, Feminism, Homelessness, IMF, Ireland, journalism, Justice, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged AAA, Bob Dylan, Claire Daly, freedom, Ireland 2.0, Ivana Bacik, Podemos, RubenSanchezTW, Sinn Fein, The Times They Are A'Changin, Una Mullally
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Dig your own Cosgrave
I want to like Paddy Cosgrave. He’s a relatively youthful, successful entrepreneur, putting Ireland Inc on the international map, attracting legions of hipsters, billionaire geeks, veecees, and visionaries to our capital, along with Eva Longoria, Dan Brown and Rio Ferdinand. … Continue reading
Posted in Dublin, technology, Travel
Tagged entrepreneur, Ireland, Paddy Cosgrave, technology, web summit
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Thems the Breaks
Sunday afternoon and we’ve all left the kitchen to read books and watch sport and sleep, and to think of the fortune we have in living suburbian dreams . . .
Posted in Dogs, Drink, Dublin
Tagged Dublin, Firhouse, photography, Scotch and Soda, Sububia, The Crusty Suitcase Band
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“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet” Roger Miller
I woke up this morning to find the rain had passed, and i was disappointed as i had high hopes for yesterday’s deluge, i had a plan. As i returned home from work yesterday evening, taking the scenic route by … Continue reading
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure . . . but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyways”. Bob Dylan
i blew into Dublin in the early naughties a very green boy and throughout the years, here in our centralised capital i’ve seen enough to help me make the climb to the heights of Firhouse, an area of southwest Dubh … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Catholicism, Dogs, Dublin, Education, Firhouse, Health, Ireland, Justice, nanny state, Nature, Opinion, Photography, Politics, Property, Public sector, socialism
Tagged Bob Dylan, Brown Dogg, Dublin24, Educate Together, Firhouse, Joni Mitchell, Kilakee, Tallaght
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“There won’t be time to share our love, for we must say goodbye”
Azza child i would wake late in the night and childishly stumble the corridor to my parents room at the front of the flat (azza child an apartment was called a flat) and sleep between them in their warm bed … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Drink, Dublin, Heritage, Ireland, Music, socialism
Tagged Co. Cavan, Ford Sierra, Grace, Jim McCann, Justin Mackin, Kingscourt, LMFM, The Dubliners, Una Mullally
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“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
Over the past two months or so i’ve been letting things get on my nerve, stuff that ordinarily annoys me but which i try and ignore, such as Una Mullally, The Irish Times, Broadsheet, The Guardian, Ivana Bacik, Clurr Daly … Continue reading
Down with that sort of thing
Irish Water protests at Merrion Square today. Lovely day for a protest all the same!
Posted in Dublin, Ireland, Justice, Politics
Tagged #irishwater, 10th December, Irish Water, Merrion Square, right2water, Water protests. march
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