On the Official English FA website the Irish flag is represented by an oversized McDonalds logo rather than the Irish Tricolour. No idea why - […]

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Talking about Horslips and Dearg Doom, here is Horslips, talking about Dearg Doom, including the Italia ‘90 re-working.
And below it is a straight performance of […]

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If legalizing the illegal Irish in Kansas City and beyond is your cup of tea, you might want to support the CD No Paddy Left […]

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Speaking of football, former Kansas City Wizard, Scotland’s Mo Johnston, was sacked as coach of the New York Red Bulls last Tuesday.
Having watched Johnston play […]

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Let’s revisit Dublin in 1979. It’s a kind of love story.
Take a Subbuteo pitch. Turn the green cloth over and paint the word “Ireland” on […]

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A glimpse of a headline, like yesterday’s ‘Rain stops play at Wimbledon‘ can give a little tug at the nostalgia strings - because growing […]

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So you have twenty posts in mid-draft, and none of them are funny, yet you have less than an hour before Brazil play again. You […]

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In 1978 deep down in her pocket Judy found 50p (p? what’s p?).
10 years earlier Irish money was pre-decimal so 10 bob is what […]

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Today’s Wichita Eagle in Kansas carries a review of a book on Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish, which caught my attention because aside from my […]

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In 1986 when Ireland had a referendum on divorce I was drinking in Rathmines, and every time I went to the jax I chose a […]

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Once upon an unemployed time in Ireland, I ran out of Unemployment Benefit and was thus applying for means-based Unemployment Assistance. The Benefit that had […]

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Before Jack Charlton invented Irish football, Ireland had a tremendous record at home. We went thirteen years unbeaten at Lansdowne in competitive games, and the […]

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It is 1979 in Dublin. You have just become a teenager. You are too young to get into the TV Club or McGonagles. You cannot […]

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Speaking of Lillies Bordello, well, I don’t like Lillies.
Whenever I would walk down that side of Grafton Street where the alley comes out, the […]

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Twenty-five years ago from right now we were in the last moments of Bobby Sands life, and everything was very tense all over Ireland. The […]

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Mischievous Mulley dares to throw the sainted syllables of Bono at all Dubs in an audacious aggravation of Irish blogging wars.
A Dub called names by […]

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Well you hardly need to ask me, or to get on a plane, what with the internet and all. I have a non-Irish friend who […]

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I drink in Kansas City.
[Update: This post was written in April 2006, over a year before I was to return to my native Dublin]
And […]

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One of the great things about living in Dublin was the miserable weather. Often you’d find yourself with visiting friends from England or much further, […]

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I didn’t forget to tell you about Bob’s and Eddie’s weekly gigs at them Irish pubs of WJ McBride’s and O’Dowd’s on the Plaza, this […]

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