Wall supports Brand Ireland
Following on recent calls by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen and journalist Enda O’Doherty for Irish writers to ‘do the state some service’ (and leaving aside the fact that the first man to use the expression [see footnote] committed suicide immediately afterwards), I want to say: Good Taoiseach (as Joe Higgins used to [...]

Meet the Spartniks!
As regular readers of my blog are already know, my father was in the Spanish air force back in the time when it was the poor relation of the arm services. The navy and army and Spanish Foreign Legion was get most of the glory during the Spanish Civil War for Golf, and [...]

The Bullingdon Club: Producing Your Cultured Elite for the Last 200 Years
This week is a big one for all those layabout teenagers getting their A-level results and Leaving Cert certificates so that they can become layabout students at the espense of those of us who work or who live on their well-earn pensions, such as [...]

There have been esciting developments in the world of Spanish aviation which not many of you will have read about unless you subscribe to the Daily Mail, which is never cease to go on about bloody Spanish air traffic controllers. Visitors to Spain, tourists, foreingers, businessmen, decent people, those with private income, holidaymakers, and drug [...]

Once upon a time, superstitions and rituals were the sole preserve of reactionaries, professional athletes, the alienated, children, and those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. These days, however, it seems like everyone is aware of how little control they have over their lives and consequently feels the need to propitiate the gods of Fate and Fortune [...]

Can I Have a Translation, Please!!
Anyone who is have even the smallest knowledge of Spain’s glorious imperial history will know that while all the other despicable Protestant European countries (Britain, Germany, Holland, France, and cetera) devoted their ambitions and attentions to exploiting the resources and benighted savages of Africa, creating the immoral, barbaric, and illegal [...]

Losing weight doesn’t have to be a major undertaking, providing you’re willing to make the necessary tweaks to your everyday habits that mean the difference between oh-boy! and o-bese. The U.S. National Institutes of Health report that a net loss of a mere 231 calories every day for a month is enough to guarantee a [...]

A Vindication of Del Bosque’s Team Selection
I shall not harp on about the demonstration of Spain’s genetic and moral superiority that was prove over the weekend yet again. After all, as foregone conclusions go, this one have gone long before it ever went. Even despite the lubricous decisions of the idiot English referee Clive Webb, [...]

I am a broke man!!
You are all must be enjoying the World Cup as much as I am. This have especially been a fantastic World Cup for all the Ireland football supporters, much better than if their team was being there. They have been esperienceing unadulteried pleasure at watching France crash and burn, and then [...]

It was a source of constant irritation to Joyce that Sean O’Casey had a bridge named after him when no writer had done more to integrate north and south sides of the Liffey into a cohesive and coherent lifeworld than Joyce had. Perhaps his irritation went deeper than that, though. After all, it was Casey [...]