One of the reasons I haven’t brought you pictures and words of this trip to Italy is because I forgot to bring a cable for […]

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-How are ya, me oul’ flower?
-I’m grand, thanks
-I’m going to the airport if it’s any use to ya
-Nah, I’m headin’ to town, thanks
You know you’re […]

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As we begin our 4th day in succession of blue skies over Dublin West, so grow the bottles on the ground.
It’s the summer weather.
2 days […]

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For as long as I can remember I use a hat to dry my hair.
No, I don’t use a great big floppy one and use […]

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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, […]

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Yesterday I took my American dog on a walking tour of the rubbish that litters the parts of Dublin West I grew up in.
We were […]

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My American dog has arrived in Ireland.
Yesterday, Dog-dog left Kansas City in temperatures colder than it will ever experience in Ireland, and changed flights […]

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The dates are set.
Irish KC, in a desperate attempt to appear to be genuinely related to KC, is visiting the Metro area this month, January […]

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Depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean you are, it’s January the 2nd or the 3rd right now.
But I’m not convinced either way.
In a […]

Read: A Phonecall From Another Time »

After 6 days of Guinness and 5 of turkey, I have a need to finally go outside.
I hear it’s cold out there, in that […]

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Who would have thought that Joe Dolan would be knocked off the news headlines by a man in Rawalpindi?
And this raises the stakes in the […]

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From Dublin airport today I managed to squeeze in a Christmas Eve stroll around town on my way to the family home.
Dublin was vibrant as […]

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In my final months in Ireland before moving to the US eight, nine years ago, I was unhappy about something. Granted I hadn’t particularly tried […]

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The sun has come up in this cold corner of Europe so it is time to go out and paint.
Almost 9 years ago I moved […]

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All is sedate in the middle of England during this build-up to Christmas.
It’s fair to say I’m not missing the schmaltz of the build-up […]

Read: The Goose is Getting Fat »

Yesterday I had a fry for breakfast and a fry for lunch.
While the earlier fry is a fry I’ve had thousands of times - rashers, […]

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Time was when I lived in the US that I would say one of the things I missed most about Ireland, was England - […]

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Last night I had Steak & Kidney Pie for dinner. The night before, Fish & Chips.
Last week I had Shepherd’s Pie, and also Bacon & […]

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So Dublin Airport’s Pier D offically opened yesterday.
And Like the Taoiseach I was at the airport myself. But I was at the prefab […]

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Pier D in Dublin Airport opened yesterday. Officially. The Taoiseach’s the one that done it.
But Pier D has really been open for 2 weeks. I […]

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