“You have to remember”, said the sage, “that these fuckers are all completely mad”.
A beloved colleague, gone too soon.
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Sleeping rough
This week came the very sad news out of Gneeveguilla in Kerry that the renowned accordion player Jimmy Doyle, famed as much for his endless fun as his masterful musicianship, had died.
Tributes have poured in for the famed West Kerry traditional musician and singer, Séamus Ó Beaglaíoch, who has died aged 73.
Roger Scruton who died on January 12 was a remarkable person. He grew up in Ancoats, a part of Manchester captured in L.S Lowry’s distinctive paintings. The son of a socialist school teacher Scruton became perhaps the most eloquent of modern thinkers to reject socialism and all its works. Unlike many of the déclassé left […]