Sunday Short time.
Strictly speaking this is not an Irish Short Film. But it is a film, and it’s Irish, and it’s short.
It’s episode 7 from […]

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Just in the door. Was outside for up to 10 minutes talking to the next door neighbour.
It could well be the biggest mistake I […]

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Mosquite Project Recap:
No bug deterrent applied, and no after-bite topical relief applied.
Things were going swimmingly there for a few weeks. Oh I was getting […]

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By popular demand, here is a photo of The Dog.
Equally adept with either paw, The Dog is seen here warming up with a soccer ball […]

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Back when the Lucan Road west of Chapelizod wasn’t a one-way off ramp from the N4, it was the main feature of my typical cycling […]

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In the few days in Kansas City, from the saddle of a bicycle, I have seen:
1. A turtle
2. A woodpecker
3. A possum scurrying along
4. A […]

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I suppose there’s not much more mobile than music, so it makes sense when tunes associated with one land end up associated with another.
That […]

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Since I’m on an animal jaunt, I want to talk about an animal here in the midwest that we don’t have in Ireland.
This is an […]

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A week ago I had to go on a tea run. I knew this because the Charge of the Light Brigade was passing through my […]

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Mosquitos eating Irish person in the Midwest.
A policy to fight the bite, by a sufferer of bad bites, bad bite reactions, and bad treatment reactions.
Recap:
No […]

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A Trinity College Dublin campus biotech company chaired by the Irish Government’s science advisor Patrick Cunningham has established a state-of-the-art lab in Kansas. Silicon Republic […]

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A couple of photos I took in Powell Gardens of the butterfly that everybody likes, the Monarch.
You may recall, or not and not care, that […]

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Those of you fascinated with the idea of me as fodder for insects might be interested to know that the pact between myself and the […]

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I always find it difficult to identify the first mosquito bite of the year in Kansas City.
During spring I will get several bites, not […]

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So I’m out for a walk in between Kansas City storms. Me and the dog are about half an hour in, right in the middle […]

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Dead Animals
Most every day I walk in Kansas City, and my dog rolls in a dead snake. Thanks to Saint Patrick and his very thorough […]

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Maybe it’s Kansas City, but I’ll never get used to American news.
If you look at the online Kansas City Star, a typical American newspaper, […]

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It’s Sunday, so relax and enjoy a short Irish film - Rory Bresnihan’s claymation fable for our times, Guy’s Dog, courtesy of YouTube.
I love everything […]

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ROBINS
Dennis Hopper with an oxygen mask. A sliced off ear. A naked battered Isabella Rosellini. A beautiful heart attack with a small dog attacking the […]

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