Journalism really makes me laugh sometimes. Even though I study it in college I still scratch my head at the way it all works. We report facts – the news – and present a balanced view based on all sides of the story. This week a teenager was mauled by a tiger in Dublin Zoo. […]
David Beckham. Lovely David Beckham. The tide has finally turned against Beckham as he slips off the radar as the darling of English footballer. After yet another poor performance in England’s defeat to Portugal today, Beckham has surely made his last World Cup appearance – he will be 35 by the time the next one […]
Seeing as how I accidentally went all Kurt Cobain recently I thought I’d share a few thoughts about the great man himself. As was the case for many of us – well those of us lucky enough to be old/young enough to experience his music first hand – I first heard Kurt screaming his way […]
I might come across as all nice and stuff here (right? …. ) but really I’m a bile-filled person who loathes large sections of society. First up for a verbal thumping are bouncers. You might know them as “doormen”. They are the gentlemen hired by public establishments such as pubs, night clubs, casinos and venues […]
My thanks to my good friend Liz for pointing me in the direction of this sad yet bizarre story from the United States. A man has been charged with the murder of his wife with the key evidence being that he downloaded Guns N’ Roses’ “I Used to Love Her” track on the day of […]
Mike Tyson wants to join Westlife. The Baddest Man on the Planet (TM) is desperate to link up with the Wettest Fish in the Solar System (TM). Tyson visited Ireland recently to catch up with his boxing friend Joe Egan and say ‘Happy Mothers Day’ to Egan’s mum. In fairness to the convicted rapist he […]
I promised myself that I’d blog after my first exam so within two hours…here I am. Today was Public Relations, a less bullshit subject than it sounds. I entered the exam with the words of my lecturer ringing in my ears: “No waffle…” (queue dramatic echo of the word “waffle”). Let me take a step […]
The radio is always good for a bit of entertainment. While I’m a big music fan, one look at my profile will indicate that few bands I like ever get played on it. So I really only listen to talk radio. In Dublin that means Newstalk 106. Fine station, it is. Sean Moncrieff is the […]
Disgust The hostility between football fans is something that a lot of people don’t understand. Outside of a few hundred diehard fans, there is little aggressive behaviour noticeable in the sparsely populated grounds of League of Ireland clubs. So it’s with, at best, puzzlement, at worst, disgust, that we read about the latest battle between […]
The hostility between football fans is something that a lot of people don’t understand. Outside of a few hundred diehard fans, there is little aggressive behaviour noticeable in the sparsely populated grounds of League of Ireland clubs. So it’s with, at best, puzzlement, at worst, disgust, that we read about the latest battle between Manchester […]
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