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How do you wear a cardigan ironically?
October 6, 2009 – 12:00 am | 11 Comments
How do you wear a cardigan ironically?

Whilst sauntering through town on Monday on my way to the dark place, work that is, I happened to find myself walking towards some of those shiny people who hand out handbills for shiny nightclubs. …

Ethic Cleansing
September 21, 2009 – 12:01 am | 14 Comments
Ethic Cleansing

As my most devoted followers will know (big shout-out there to mah peeps in Arbour Hill!), I turned vegetarian about ten months ago, give or take the odd mix-up in the McDonalds order.

And I have …

Saviour Bacon!
September 9, 2009 – 12:01 am | 8 Comments
Saviour Bacon!

I am this week bringing you the Good News almost like an evangelical Protestant, escept without the scary stare, the Sarah Palin grin, or the subconscious knowledge that I am anyway going to Hell in …

GAA Slur
September 7, 2009 – 12:01 am | 11 Comments
GAA Slur

Friends, readers, new mammies who typed cuddlepot.com incorrectly, I’d like to put to you a theory that you may find contentious, even contemptible.

Dear Flann: Readers’ mailbag
September 3, 2009 – 2:52 am | 8 Comments
Dear Flann: Readers’ mailbag

Anybody who’s ever written an unofficial biography about you has died in mysterious circumstances. Why is that? 
Fred,
Dungavin

Walk Softly and Carry a Bag of Sticks
August 27, 2009 – 12:01 am | 20 Comments
Walk Softly and Carry a Bag of Sticks

Once upon a time, the Communist atheist New York Times write an editorial in which it was warning that Fascism could arrive in America “silently, slowly, like fog creeping in on little cat feet.”  I …

I wouldn’t have believed it if my chums hadn’t seen it and told me about it. (& got a photo too)
August 18, 2009 – 12:00 am | 50 Comments
I wouldn’t have believed it if my chums hadn’t seen it and told me about it. (& got a photo too)

So to the delight of waiters and bar staff all over Belfast the Tall Ships have been and gone. I’ve never been one for seafaring types or boats in general, except of course Captain Birdseye, …

Morning George!
August 11, 2009 – 12:00 am | 32 Comments
Morning George!

Having had a long and sweaty day at work on Friday I was more than just a little disappointed to get home and find The Cousin’s chum/partner in menace John ‘the baby’ Barton and The …