Flann O’Coonassa is the controversial, best selling author of ‘Beating the Breathalyzer: the Garlic Escape’, ‘Avoisioning the Taxman’ and ‘Was Jesus Obese?’ He was born circa 1922 in a slurry pit among the rolling badlands of Leitrim, Ireland. The delivery was so traumatic that neither mother nor father survived.

Holder of a master’s degree from the school of hard knocks, a PHD from the college of tough breaks, and an online diploma from the University of Nebraska, Flann agonisingly slithered from the primordial sludge of his hellish, institutionalised upbringing to become arguably the world’s most celebrated thinker since Plato.

Famously described by Joan Collins as “that jackass”, Flann’s popularity has exploded in the last decade amidst the skyrocketing success of self-help literature and unsubstantiated, loosely researched non-fiction.

Also a disqualified lawyer with an astute eye for loopholes, Flann often boasts of being “acquitted more times than arrested”. The actual ratio is an impressive 1:3. Flann has sired many children in Ireland, America, Cambodia and Thailand, some of whom he supports financially.

When not contributing to Coddle Pot, Flann deposits his wisdom pearls here, at Irish Begrudger. He also begrudges Facebook into submission here, and contaminates Twitter with his begrudgery here. You can email him at flann@coddlepot.com, but he is no longer reachable by carrier pigeon. Newly arrived pigeons will forthwith be shot and returned to sender via an even bigger pigeon. That second freight pigeon will also be shot in due course.

Click here for a selection of Flann’s articles, each choc-full of craic agus ceoil (WARNING: Ceoil not included. Craic may vary).