Articles by Flann O'Coonassa
Anybody who’s ever written an unofficial biography about you has died in mysterious circumstances. Why is that?
Fred,
Dungavin
In his first interview since dying, the King of Pop Michael Jackson sits down for a chin-wag with Coddle Pot, via the psychic ducting of Uri Geller’s frontal lobe. I shit you not. Enjoy!
In the fourth instalment (see previous instalments here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my period drama ‘Sense and Prejudicability’. First published in 1992, my agent Diane begged me …
Me: God, thanks for taking the time to speak with Coddle Pot.
God: No problem.
Me: We know you’re busy.
God: Hmmm? Oh…yeah, sure.
Me: This week on Questions and Answers, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern…
Bertie Ahern: Good evening.
I hear you were a qualified doctor in the 60s. If medicine is a vocation, why did you stop practising?
Dorothy,
Sydney
It was simple maths Dorothy. A medical review board determined that patients were sixty-five times …
In the third instalment (see previous instalments here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my Mafia novel ‘Vito Schillaci’. Though critical response was muted when first published in 1987, …
In 2003, writer and producer David Crane approached me to guest-write a one-off, racist episode of the multi-award winning sitcom Friends. Laughs were put on hiatus, and characters instead asked to negotiate a gritty, thought-provoking …



