Curious

Anyone who thinks Ireland to be a small island has never been to Derry. From Cork, you must train first to Dublin (3 hours), light rail and wait and wait to Connelly Station (1 hour min.), train to Belfas (almost 3 hrs), wait, train to Derry (almost 3 hrs)  and after 12 hours you...Read more »

In a  new take on jaw-dropping bad taste,  an unhinged Irish property developer, Mr. Joe McNamara, has been building a massive concrete replication of Stonehenge on remote Achill Island in County Mayo, home to countless literary and artistic evocations of the unspoilt beautyof the country’s west coast. The affair, which consists of a 350 foot in diameter circle...Read more »

A digger man in the  turf bogs of the midlands has bumped into the remains of a 2000 year-old woman who may have been ritually sacrificed and has had her upper torso and head disintegrate but remains a leggy sort to this day. Some people might find this ghoulish, but the bogs of Ireland...Read more »

With street riots escalaiting  in London, stock markets crashing globally, and bed bugs proliferating in posh capitals,  a ray of hope has just surfaced in Ireland.  Due to a “market correction” the price of fish pedicures has been slashed by up to 70 percent in both Cork and Dublin. The days of 7 million annual...Read more »

Already bought a moon rock, or had a star named after you? Well, now you can become certified Irish for just 40 euros. In another initiative in the current re-inventing Ireland series, which features the 5% reduction in hair cutting taxes, the Department of Foreign Affairs is set to produce neat little green fringed...Read more »

Just up from the 350 million year old realm of blackness in the bowels of the earth beneath the Galtee Mountains, which is to say Michelstown Cave. This is the Ur world of three kilometers of caverns and jagged passageways boasting arrays of awe striking stalactites and stalagmites dripping with time, ghoulish formations growing...Read more »