Posts Tagged ‘ Dublin ’

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 »

Nearly every person I have spoken with in last few days — including self-styled republicans (i.e., “Brits Out” nationalists, though hardly of Ulster passions) — was strangely moved by the Queen’s visit as a signal and somehow healing point in Irish history. Just after her Cork visit ended, it was amazing to see Patrick...Read more »

 Trading on clownish clichés about the Irish – the leprechaun, the shamrock and the drunk – gets a lot of people’s Irish up. To some, Paddywhackery is akin to sheer bigotry; to others, it’s Bord Failte. But Cathal O’Connell, the brash proprietor of Paddywagon Tours, frankly doesn’t give a damn – he’s made a...Read more »

Jihad Jane’s tiptoe through the shamrocks last summer is being linked to an ever widening web of sinister events, including stolen sandwiches, fairy michief, and appalling national scandals that until now have defied explanation in Ireland. The new face of Islamic terrorism, whose previous rap sheet included bouncing checks in Pizza Hut and 7-11,...Read more »

A new National Leprechaun Museum of Ireland is about to open its wee doors on Jervis Street. The brain child of a designer named Tom O’Rahilly, it actually sounds artfully conceived. After passing through an Optical Illusion Tube, visitors are led through a series of fantasy worlds that get progressively stranger — from a...Read more »

Mystery Over Golf Ball Found in Dead Man’s Throat By Cormac O’Keeffe Tuesday, February 16, 2010 GARDAÍ ruled out claims that pathologists had failed to spot a golf ball lodged down a dead man’s throat. Garda sources said the ball must have been put in the man’s throat following the postmortem at St James’s...Read more »