In a nutshell.
In lore and in my garden
Handel’s Messiah was the soundtrack to Christmas Day in our house
In these safer times, let’s keep the old tradition and light the candle of welcome this Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas — and I hope you have a great time.
Doomed from the start.
The significance of 2023 is that it is the year when “far right” stopped being a label people feared, and began to become a standing joke.
Handing out “end of year awards” to politicians is a venerable and stupid Irish media tradition
Quota
If you didn’t know who she was, you might think you’d woken up from a coma, and were listening to John Bruton or Bertie Ahern, circa 1997.
5 sleeps!
There’s an obvious difference between the procurement of Pepper Spray, which is an obvious case of fighting the last war, and plans to equip public order Gardai with Tasers, which is a relatively obvious case of serious over-reaction.