The Dingle/Daingean issues is in the news again. Kerry Co. Council have announced details of a postal vote to be carried out in October on whether or not they want the bilingual name Dingle/Daingean Ui Chuis instead of An Daingean. Not that it’ll make much difference anyway as Ó’Cuiv is adamant that the decision he [...]
DUP’er gets elected in Nationalist stronghold. Stoop gets elected in Unionist stronghold. Nationalists and loyalists in North Belfast reach historic deal. What the fuck is going on?? Nationalists and loyalists team up to beat the shit out of Lithuanians. What’s with all this lovey dovey stuff up North these days?
A couple and one of their four children are believed to have died following a fire at a house in Co Waterford this morning. A man in his 20s has died in a single-vehicle crash in the Bridgetown area of Co Clare overnight. ..a mother and her two grown-up children … died in a drowning [...]
The Eurovision is utter shit. Yes it is. And we’ll have to suffer through it again this weekend. I may have to leave the house when it’s on, herself will be watching it because Lordi made it to the final. Sad thing is Lordi were one of the better ones tonight. There were some downright [...]
You’ve probably read the news recently that three Augustinian priests concelebrated mass with a Church of Ireland Rector on Easter Sunday and got in some hot water over it? According to the news this morning the three priests have apologised to the RC Church authorities. I wasn’t going to post on this at all but [...]
“May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May), ranging from several festivals to International Workers’ Day.” So whatever you’re doing today, wearing funny sailor-type graduation hats and having a bonfire like the Finns, Morris Dancing like the English or celebrating Lei Day like the Hawaiians, [...]
Holy feck. Ex-Sinn Féiner-slash-British spy Denis Donaldson was tonight found shot dead in his cottage in Donegal! More coverage on United Irelander, Slugger.
I wanted to avoid posting much on the riots as the blogoshpere is saturated by commentary on Saturday’s events, hence my only post on the subject so far was short and simple (much like myself). However I wanted to highlight two points which I feel are very important. The Big lad (hat-tip UI) had the [...]
Thank you to the Love Ulcer scum for bringing their hate to our fair capital. And thank you to the RepublicanSF scum for tearing up the city. Me ye all die roarin’.
This will probably be covered by a few blogs today. “An EU study has reportedly found that Irish people have poorer linguistic skills than the citizens of any other member state.” It doesn’t come as any real surprise does it? “two-thirds of Irish people questioned as part of the research admitted they could only speak [...]