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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Were I a better person I would have kept record of the paragraphs I wrote in support of each of my nominations for the 2008 […]

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Maybe it’s an over-reaction on my part.
Before I move countries there’s alway a sign. A sign that things just aren’t quite right where you […]

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About a dozen blogs have been added to my Irish blogroll.
This should more accurately reflect blogs I’ve been reading regularly and intermittently through 2007.
I’ve […]

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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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A further update on the Irish Health Service story featured a couple of days ago. Going by the name of “Mary” the author of the […]

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At the moment I’m not in Ireland; I’m in England working temporarily so I don’t have a whole lot to say. Well I do of […]

Read: Irish Stories That Shouldn’t Exist »

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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For the first time in over a year, I bought a paper.
The Irish Times is 1.70 euro which at today’s rates of exchange is […]

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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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Yesterday I posted live from a bus in London, but to get there I had to leave Dublin.
Here’s what I wrote at Dublin airport:
The thing […]

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I’ve seen a few of these signs around Dublin since I returned and I have a fondness for the words employed.
Indeed this sign might be […]

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The last job I did in the weeks before emigrating to America 8 years ago, was to paint 3 murals in an apartment in Dublin’s […]

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Oh, America, I forgot to tell you - it’s a holiday today in Ireland. The Dublin Marathon finished a while ago with its fastest winning […]

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In my teens in Dublin Barney’s or the Pierott Club, before it was converted into a superpub, were my amusement haunts.
Or if I wanted to […]

Read: Dr Quirkey’s Good Time Emporium »

OK. Yes.
Personal effects from Kansas City have now been delivered, unloaded, and put into storage in Dublin where I won’t be seeing them again […]

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In America I wore two items of footwear. Trekking boots in deepest winter, and maybe a couple of months either side, and in summer sandals.
Sometimes […]

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Update on moving to Ireland from America.
The Irish Customs, thanks to the Gardaí, now believes I am really here and the container of my personal […]

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Yesterday I awoke to a horrible blue sky. A perfect blue sky.
No clouds anywhere. It went on for hours before we got the comfort […]

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