by charley | Mar 3, 2015 | Current Affairs
There’s a very funny episode of Two and a Half Men where Charlie Sheen has his therapy group round and they include Sean Penn, Elvis Costello and Harry Dean Stanton – all playing themselves and bitching about getting old. One of them is bemoaning the fact that...
by charley | Feb 25, 2015 | Current Affairs
Claire Byrne, Hunger Strikes & Eating Disorders Well, you pretty much knew that you were in an RTE hospitality room from the get-go. In few other places would you get a statement quite as bizarre. It was Monday night’s ‘Claire Byrne Show’, and we were being...
by charley | Feb 17, 2015 | Current Affairs
‘Another Sinister Twist to the Water Protests’. Yes; that is the actual, button-pressing headline they gave it. I’ve mentioned many times that the Irish Daily Mail is one of my favourite newspapers. I’m also rather fond of Ger Colleran at The Star, even when I’m not...
by charley | Jan 27, 2015 | Current Affairs
I’ve always maintained – in a sort of half-joking manner—that the only reason that I’ve reached middle age without the accompaniment of a bloody great big politician- assisted stomach-ulcer is because I just bang away on the keyboard whenever the bastards are annoying...
by charley | Jan 7, 2015 | Current Affairs
I’m an unapologetically vindictive bastard and never pretended otherwise; so this is a good morning for me. Well, at least it’s a start. Thanks to America –nothing to do with us, we didn’t have the balls to go after him—David Drumm wakes up today in the...
