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Glaston-Wary?
June 26, 2009 – 12:15 am | 22 Comments
Glaston-Wary?

What a shitty time poor Farah Fawcett had yesterday! To be interrupted in your induction into Heaven’s heavenly regiments by bawls of…
“Holy Jesus, is that Michael fucking Jackson?”
“O.M.GEEEE I think it is! Out of the …

Exclusive Interview with Roy Keane, Mick McCarthy and MC Hammer
June 22, 2009 – 12:14 am | 12 Comments
Exclusive Interview with Roy Keane, Mick McCarthy and MC Hammer

Ask anybody – even a cross-eyed peasant farmer in the hills of Guatemala – who would be the top three people they’d kill (a hobo) to meet, and you’ll invariably hear the names Roy Keane, Mick McCarthy, …

Crooning with Frank Sinatra and The Rat pack
June 22, 2009 – 12:10 am | No Comment
Crooning with Frank Sinatra and The Rat pack

In 1982, I had the privilege of being in a head-on car crash with crooning royalty, Frank Sinatra. Though I spent the next year in traction, the friendship that developed between myself and Old Blue …

Freaking out with Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper
June 22, 2009 – 12:07 am | 2 Comments
Freaking out with Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper

For a time in the late 60s, myself, Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper were inseparable. The Three Amigos. Nobody called us that, which always surprised me. The Two Amigos would probably have been more accurate …

Interview with Twink, Sile Seoige and Kenny Egan
June 21, 2009 – 11:58 pm | No Comment
Interview with Twink, Sile Seoige and Kenny Egan

In 1968, a spotty, snot-nosed Jeremy Paxman approached me for advice. He relayed his dream of breaking into the world of hard-edged, current affairs broadcasting — a world in which I was already an international …

Meeting Bono, Edge, Larry and the other one
June 21, 2009 – 11:45 pm | 2 Comments
Meeting Bono, Edge, Larry and the other one

As a freelance journalist, I’ve interviewed everybody from Terry Wogan to Zag (the man who plays Zig cancelled at very short notice — highly unprofessional). None though, come bigger than Ireland’s most famous sons, rock …

Nerds are people too, just very annoying people.
June 7, 2009 – 12:00 pm | 10 Comments
Nerds are people too, just very annoying people.

I had a fun fun fun table of eight land in on me about an hour before closing. They received my usual “me angry waiter, you stupid customer” caveman type greeting that I reserve for …

Opportunity Knocks!!
June 6, 2009 – 5:14 am | No Comment
Opportunity Knocks!!

One is an unpleasant demagogue contemptuous of the masses and who always wear black. The other is the former leader of the British Union of Fascists!!

I am reading all about the disarray in the …