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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 »

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 »

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 »

Raymond Lloyd says that the killjoys are taking over in this letter to Cork Evening Echo dated June 20 concerning a garda raid on the Cork Arms, where the owner, Patsy O’Leary, was enjoying an after-hours drink with a few friends in celebration of her birthday during the Cork Jazz festival. This kind of...Read more »

On the trail I have been. Across this Ireland to which I seem to be destined to offer up platters of platitudes and maybe something more. You could spend a lifetime trying to figure it out, while not getting very far. Like what was I doing in a grandiose kind-of-dukish castle in Lismore reading...Read more »