I’m always fascinated by how others see us. Sometimes, when I drive down familiar streets I try to imagine what it would be like to be a foreign visitor seeing them for the first time.
So what, I wondered, is the world making of us and our election? Every media outlet imaginable is reporting on it, [...]
Andrew Maxwell is on “a personal tour of Ireland” for The Guardian and Discover Ireland. Having just watched the guide to Dublin, I assume it’s supposed to be all alternative and cool, but it still features a freckled kid on a piebald, two eccentrically dressed elderly buskers with squeezeboxes, and a lot of shots of [...]
May 20th, 2007
Hello and welcome to Vote For Me. Today, our guest is John Joe Bloggs, who is hoping to retain his seat in Dublin East West Central. How are you, John Joe?
I didn’t interrupt you so I’d prefer if you didn’t interrupt me.
But I didn’t interrupt you. You haven’t said anything yet.
Please let me [...]
May 13th, 2007
I am a desirable entity. So many suitors want me to commit to them but I just can’t make up my mind. No, I haven’t taken up online dating. I am an undecided voter.
I want to vote. I believe my vote counts. After all, last time out John Dennehy was elected by just [...]
Oops - I must have recycled this issue of the ST so copy as filed, rather than as published…
May 6th, 2007
Barack Obama is a Biffo – it’s official. A Biffo, for those not in the know, is a sometimes fond, sometimes pejorative term for natives of Offaly and, according to research done by a Church [...]
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