Posts Tagged ‘ Cork ’

Ireland keeps turning, as the world does. Was just taped for the radio of Canada, the Gaelic Hour out of Ottawa (can you get in?) to rant or observe. Sunny economic predictions not in the quiver, but what a run it has been through these holidays. With extraordinarily mild weather there has been an...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 »

What rain? In Fermoy today doowap music blasting from a loud speaker and maybe fifty twelve year-olds (one boy) exuberantly arms-kimbo dancing in synch on the footpaths. For old time’s sake I dabbled in the jaywalking, dug the smiles on the passing pedestrians faces. Ah so, it was drizzling and the nation is bankrupt,...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 »

A strange morning in Ballyduff, the sun fleeting, the weather fickle and white swans on the Blackwater. They say the salmon are moving now but they do not swim into the room where I write and from which I stare out at the eternally moving water. I hear singing and move out onto the...Read more »

So I come back to Cork after some days away and leave a black bag of my clothes in the hallway, including my best clothes intended to be worn for the smashing launch of Ireland Unhinged at the lovely Boqueria a couple of nights ago. BUT: Bag disappears, flat out vanishes. A couple of...Read more »