Disturbing

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 »

Gob-smacking the rule again this week. Turns out the geniuses monitoring the country’s dire finances and various begging bowls to powers afar have been having some problems with their maths. Somebody did a double check and found out wizards from two different gov bureaus had simultaneously entered a 3.6 billion euro loss to the...Read more »

It is that time of the evening in Ireland. There is a vixen in my life and she skulks into my garden to eat apples now every day. Do foxes eat apples? I wondered too. But through sheer epistimology I can now swear that they do, and that they are mine. The golden apples...Read more »

Some passing motorists in the child-like and senseless gun-the-engines-always  fashion that is so common here killed our dog Monday night. Or maybe fate did, or maybe every dog just has his short day in the sun. This madhouse of juvenalia when it comes to driving, along with some other things. And Rudy, black on white fluff, springer spaniel of...Read more »

What’s going on in Ireland, the within and without it wants to know. Answer to make your head scratch: A 5% reduction in the tax on hair-dressing to jump start the economy. Really. But also newpapers like the Irish Times and the rest, perhaps the most over-priced in the world and woefully complicit all...Read more »

The bad economic news keep raining down as hard as the weather of the last week – new taxes on pensions, on water, and on property to feed the increasingly bottomless repayments to the IMF and European Central Bank. Meanwhile, consumer energy prices are slated to rise by 20 percent. Writing in today’s Irish...Read more »