The Dossing Times

As suggested by sometime commenter Davy, this week we compile a list of Irish American actors. Now the criteria need some rigidity, pretty much everyone could lay claim to some form of Irish descendant if they tried. Those in the list required at the very least a parent or grandparent to have established links with [...]

Spoiler Heavy

So the comic book world is all a buzz – a long running story-line comes to its climax today being marketed as the death of Batman. Read more deeply though and you will see the scribe of the storyline has suggested this will be the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman – a very [...]

From todays Irish Times
PROTESTANT SCHOOLS appear to be battening down the hatches and cutting spending in response to recent Budget cutbacks. Like all schools, they must absorb the reductions in grants and substitution payments. But for them, the pain goes deeper. Without prior notice, a special support services grant paid to 21 Protestant schools across [...]

I can hardly imagine the circumstances in which anyone would find themselves needing to use these phrases, in either English or as Gaeilge. There are some especially bemusing ones I’ve selected below, though they haven’t included my favourite – Tá a fhios ag an saol is a mháthair. Memories come flooding back of mindlessly reciting [...]

Now I dont know a whole lot about sport – in fact those who know me will say I know nothing at all. It doesn’t stimulate me, entertains me intermittently and is my Achilles heel when it comes to being able to engage in a rounded conversation. Sport comes up and I feel that mad [...]

From Different Worlds!

 
So the blog is all quiet at the moment so I thought I would tell you what I am doing right at this moment. I am waiting for some equipment to continue with my system. So at the moment I am writing a bit of my thesis to pass the time. Anyway here is a [...]

Apologies to Davy, his suggestion for Top 6 Friday will appear next week. Its been a long stressful week so my brain will only stretch to putting together the themeless list below. Of course its still not without merit!
6. Family Guy: Peter fights the Chicken

5. 40 posters from Independent movies – my favourite is [...]

How the Obama administration could end up resembling the cast of ‘Commander in Chief’….how in Gods name Hugh Jackman earned the title of Sexiest Man Alive 2008….how Tom Cruise is seemingly being sniggered at by test audiences when giving the salute in his role as a subordinate Nazi plotting to assassinate Hitler in new movie [...]