Does this really need to be spelled out?
For every interference in my life, I said.
Interference is not just receiving bad phonecalls from Kansas City; […]

Read: Nobody’s Child #2 »

With the day that’s in it, either the day before or the day after St Patrick’s Day - depending on whether or not you think […]

Read: 10 Irish Lists About Really Irish Things »

If I may quote London Beat, and I may for this is my site - I could even quote Sonny Knowles if I wished - […]

Read: Thinking and Thanking »

It’s Cheltenham. Ireland takes on England in its annual four-legged national hunt orgy.
The storms caused a nice break for yer man Primal to sort […]

Read: Cheltenham Gold Cup Sweep »

In this day and age of print-on-demand, where we can self-publish high-quality books - physical quality that is, not necessarily content - there’s no real […]

Read: Prints of Paintings »

I don’t lie. It’s how I was brought up.
More importantly, I don’t need phone calls from Kansas City calling me a liar.
I wasn’t lying when […]

Read: Nobody’s Child #1 »

2 years ago today Irish KC launched with this little post. (The seemingly older posts were added later)
It was an ugly start, foregoing much of […]

Read: Irish KC is 2 Years Old »

Just a short note to let you know I’ve reinstated my interview by phone with Ireland’s Damien Dempsey.
I did the interview for an article I […]

Read: Damien Dempsey Audio Interview Available Again »

Homogenisation. Pasteurisation. Cold Flow. Extra Cold. Ice-Cold even. Ice cold?
There was a time, when if served a pint that seemed a bit cold, you and […]

Read: A Bad Pint: Here Be Dragons »

While I finish writing a post or two, about stout and about Paddy’s Day, and other such things you’d expect an Irish stereotype to write, […]

Read: A Small Remembrance of Something More Solid »

My head is full of cartoons. And I don’t mean the Hairdresser’s Guide.
I mean my other baby
Probably because I met people. And when you meet […]

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Last night I took myself and my multiple identities to the Irish Blog Awards. Managing many versions of yourself is not so easy away from […]

Read: Review: Irish Blog Awards 2008 »

Last night I went out to meet with people who had traveled from North America and around Ireland to attend tonight’s Irish blog Awards in […]

Read: People You Don’t Know »

It’s Leap Day, February 29th 2008 and amazingly I’ve just seen 3 pandas asleep in the rain in my Irish back garden.
That’s lucky that is. […]

Read: Panda! Panda! Panda! »

As I’m hoping to get motoring on painting again shortly, I thought I’d share an Irish painting in progress with you.
One of the most frequent […]

Read: Painting In Progress: Blue Mountains, Green Grass II »

Mostly for the benefit of the large number of new readers on board these last couple of weeks, but also for posterity, here’s some link […]

Read: 3rd IBAs: Nominees for Best Designed Blog »

Currently 3 images of mine are being worked on for use as Music CD covers. However one of them has me feeling rather guilty.
The other […]

Read: The Sky is Blue, the Sky is Grey »

Irish Unsigned have a competition where you can win all 10 nominees for the Choice Music Prize which takes place tonight.
UPDATE: As stunningly predicted by […]

Read: Choice: Win Top 10 Irish Albums of 2007 »

We quietly passed the 2,000 comments mark the other day; I forgot to throw a party and give the commenter a large screen plasma TV, […]

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-Excuse me?
-Hello
-You took a photograph of my house last week
-Ah
-Can you tell me why?
-Where do you live?
-On that road over there
-The house by the gap?
-Yes. […]

Read: An Irish Conversation in a Dublin Field »