That Keith Richards has really let himself go, hasn’t he?
Quizmistress Anne Robinson: Which Mick is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones?
Idiot English Contestant: Is it Bono?
Those for whom Irish music is epitomized by the seisiún or the céilí, featuring a bodhrán player, a guitarist, a fiddler, a tin whistler and Shane MacGowan, will be [...]

Few people know that the Palace of Versailles is based on Bagenalstown railway station.
Carole-Anne Delaney must have extraordinary influence within the Irish media, or else the jungle drums of County Wicklow work remarkably fast. I was no more than ten minutes up the road, having escaped from her clutches, when I noticed people waving at [...]

“You’re not from around these parts, are you, Señor?”
“On the run from the authorities and living in Cork.”
“Died in the arms of a rent boy from a methamphetamine overdose.”
“Lost his house in a poker game, went insane, now raising llamas in Monaghan for gladiatorial combat.”
“Locked herself in a cellar in 2005 and refuses to come [...]

It’s What’s Underneath That Counts! (Not the Udders)
“What is the most common expression in Ireland?”
This was the question which was pose for a competition recently in one of Ireland’s most wide-read magazines, Ireland’s Own (target demographic: widows/spinsters aged 90 to 130). Although my subscription to the magazine was let lapse once I retired to the [...]

Why Book Burning was Invented!
I have never been a great fan of Do-It-Yourself, also known as D.I.Why, both for practical and for ideological reasons. In the first place, it is an attitude which is synomynous with anarchism, exemplified by the punk rocking, fanzines, blogging, and masturbation. It reach its apogee in the late 1970s, when [...]

Enough Space for All the Books a Fascist Could Read!!
Being very sensible, over the past fourtnight (which is only actually two weeks: I will never get the stupid English!) I have been very busy organizing my return to my spiritual home, lovely holy pissing Ireland, having heeded the call from End O’Kenny (see last week’s [...]

A Land Fit for Falangists!
“This is our country. This is our journey. Yes, we are in times without precedent but I believe that for Ireland this current crisis is the darkest hour before the dawn, that we have a generational lightness of soul, that in the long Hibernian nights on the western edge of Europe [...]

British prime minister David Cameron recently received a lot of unjustified and unnecessary criticism from malevolent commentators in the media for inviting representatives from a number of arms manufacturers and dealers to accompany him on his tour of Middle Eastern countries. This criticism was the result of biased, selective and partial coverage of the prime [...]

¿Why Does My Home Smell All Fishy?
There is a very wily, clever, cunning word-play, probly invented by The Jews, according to which it is argued that Jesus Christ was NOT a Christian. ¡Sí! ¿How ridiculous is that? ¡It was his surname, for Christ’s sake! Saying this is like saying that I am not an Estímulon. [...]

We Promise an Electrifying Campaign!
If you are say to anyone, “Who was your favourite ancient Greek philosopher born in the 4th century BC and who was belong to the Cynic school and who live in a barrel,” seven times out of ten they will answer you “Diogenes of Sinope.” Because he is. Everyone is know [...]