Can’t wait for tonight’s Hydration Break 😎 #WorldCup #FraMar

You had one job … Traffic light and Stop sign on Leeson Street, Dublin

A miracle, perhaps?

Hydration break #WorldCup

Hydration break this night

FIFA filth

“We’re Hydration Break ready!😆 Waiting for the whistle to blow.”

Did someone mention ‘hydration break’? 😁

My new jam 😊 Saint Bernardino Preaching from a Pulpit. (Tempera on parchment c.1470 - Francesco di Giorgio, Siena)

Timeless… 🙂

I could legit watch this all day. The goalies 🥰

That reminds me ….😃

late-Victorian urban design on the edge of Rathmines has a hint of a Japanese aesthetic 💕

Brian Patten 1946 - 29 September 2025 Eamon Carr and I had the pleasure of publishing beautiful poems by Brian in Capella. I read with him in Dublin, Liverpool and Edinburgh. He was the 'marvellous boy' of the 60s and early 70s, an influential figure and a friend. May he rest in peace.

Came across this memorial to James Joyce in Dublin on Bloomsday and felt obliged to demolish it in his honour 😊 #AperolSpritz

Wheyhey! Mark Kavanagh’s spread in the Irish Sunday Mirror reminds me of a quattrocento altarpiece - with saints Lily White and “Wild Man” Fischer !! 😆👏🙏

My past before my other past is finally back in the frame … 🙂 Thanks to No More Workhorse ✌️ nomoreworkhorse.com/2026/06/11/q...

Getting real now 🙂 www.totallydublin.ie/arts-culture...

“Guess who just got back today Them wild-eyed boys that had been away…” 😁

Rubbing shoulders with John Lavery was never on my dance card 😁 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/f...

Sunday morning mood 😂

This thing goes live on June 11th … You’ll find it at hitonebooks.ie Ta 🙂🤞 (as they say in football, ‘squeaky bum time’)😂

Delighted to catch up with my friend Bairbre Power & artist Oisín Byrne at Cut Flowers, the artist’s wonderful show at SO Fine Art Editions in Dublin last night.

23 degrees and rising. I’ve declared a Bank Holiday 😆😎

Glad I didn’t stay out late last night .. 😊

Breakfast of champions .. in the sun with one of my favourite poets, Pearse Hutchinson

The worst day in the history of Irish vinyl when 60,000 records went up in smoke at a warehouse near Dublin airport. Rock ‘n’ roll history reduced to a smouldering pile of charred plastic. Brian O’Kelly former boss Comet Records tells me his story. www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz...

Dublin Central .. 🙂

bringing their krautrock over here....TONIGHT

If you’re in Dublin in June you might take a peek … “Visions of America 1978-79” at Powerscourt Townhouse Centre #SOFineArtEditions #HiToneBooks #WendyErskine www.hotpress.com/culture/hors...

“Rows and floes of angel hair…” 🙂

I thought I was in Robert Plant’s crib earlier …. 😉

I’m skeptical.

You tell me..

How ya like now 🙂

Cork, what a county. Its September 1934 and the Derry Journal reports that at a cinema dance in Buttevant, Co. Cork, all the women there refused to dance with the fascist Blueshirts. A Blueshirt announced that they had paid their way in and if no girls would dance with them.. [1/2]

The Dublin Street Photography Festival is a WOW! Among the events, the great Corna Fean leads a two hour photography street walk tomorrow (Sunday) from 2pm. Sold out .. but I’d say you could squeeze in. Maybe see Meryl Meisler in action 😃✌️ share.google/5D1J29dpd7Nu...

Passing Rathgar National School today (opposite AE’s old home), I spotted art on the railings and inspected each piece twice. Most enjoyable. Marvellous! Great stuff 😃✌️(I’ll add a few random images)

Laurie Lee’s book (with an Introduction by Robert Macfarlane) arrived in the post today, 1st of May, from a distributor in Sweden. I’ve no idea who sent this lovely gift. Can’t recall who mentioned Lee to me recently (doh!). But I thank them 💕

Got a new dance, and it goes like this (Pt.2)… 🙂

Got a new dance, and it goes like this… 🙂

I was sluggish this morning after a weekend that included a stint at the #Rush Festival of Writing. But then I discovered this thoughtful gift from Megan at #RedBellyCandles & got such a lift that the ink started flowing 😃 #gratitude 💕

Sea wall 🙂

As you can see, there was a varied turnout in Rush yesterday to hear myself and the great @patcarty.bsky.social shoot the breeze at the Festival of Writing 😁

Here’s a photo I took of the magnificent 3-meter tall bronze statue of human rights campaigner Roger Casement, by sculptor Mark Richards, at the Dún Laoghaire Baths overlooking the Irish Sea 🙂

Palestine flag flying at U.S. embassy Dublin

Welcome sunshine 🙂