By charging $5 to feed a corpse to his pigs, Deadwood's Mr Wu anticipated those machines that you put money in to get a handful of grains and nuts at wildlife parks

Everyone involved on either side of that Kilmainham #scam should be given the gaol

Fifteen years ago, we had Sam Vokes and Paul Scholes. Now all we're left with is damn wokes who are all scolds

People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.

You can hate (on) Elon Musk without having to pretend that Ryanair statement is l'epic bacon!!!

A salute to the stagecraft of Dr Ian Kelson

The moon's representation rushing out a 'supermoon' for tomorrow night, the 'Stoat Moon', they'll call it

This is good, but also bad. They just needed LAWN ORDER I’m angry at the ampersand.

All the young male barbers dress like Luke Littler on a day off. Respect your trade and wear a collared shirt

I'm glad THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) is a musical, how else would they be able to work in her late 90s Euro-smash 'Two Times'

Mission creep!

Dreamt I made my début with a collection of short stories titled '8 Ball, Middle Pocket'. Woke myself up out of embarrassment

You don't see many people hold a telephone handset away from their ear while a high-pitched squawk is emitted from the receiver these days

With the Tubridy sympathy-garnering blitz, remembered I have this saved on the phone (I think a Twitter mutual sent it to the Phoenix originally).

Rolled out for HAMNET (2025), and the ending brought to mind Dusty Rhodes' 'Hard Times' promo?

Can't remember why I walked into a room but I still recall every word of the 'Life With the Amoebas' song from Andy-Crane hosted 'What's Up, Doc?' on the UTV

Picked up a great bit of Gerry Hannon lore the other day, was chatting with a woman on the subject and she said Gerry's sister rang her in tears on the night of the Late Late Show, saying he'd made a holy show of the family

‘Knowledge of Beauty.’ The second film by Jack Hazan shot in County Mayo in the West of Ireland using 35mm film which Jack said made the scenery look more lush than normal. About the 3 films Jack said, ‘I listened to what Kevin had to say and tried to interpret what he wanted. I didn’t betray him.’

I refuse to celebrate 'Greek Week' at German discounter Lidl until they bring back the tzatziki-covered peanuts

A dangerous time to be the Aero selection box I received for Christmas, and was left in my wardrobe and forgotten about until two minutes ago

We didn't say 'NO TO M.M.D.S.' so the youth could say 'yes to MDMA'

The kids don't sing "Belfast on the Lagan, Cork on the Lee, (X) with (Y) sitting on his knee!" any more

Man United 🤝 Squeeze Fuck it let's bring in Carrick for a few

One Bottle After Another

With their 'Nostalgix' bagged offering, the boffins working under the benign eye of Herr Haribo have done it again

Absent-mindedly applied a face-full of my daytime moisturiser instead of my night-time one. Well fluke it anyways

Can’t remember the exact context of this, but I never saw anybody so badly bodied by someone ostensibly offering support

Then one Palestinian flag later: sadly, the left has ruined our protest again

Salieri: Wolfie, you must cover yourself in honey and walk amongst the bears Mozart: Thank you for the wonderful advice, my dear friend

Memoir of a Irish Millennial country childhood, 'To School Through the Feels'

It's much easier to instantly grasp the context when it's a picture of people outside, dressed lightly, than a picture of an algae bloom (what caused this, industrial pollution?) or a burning area of gorse (what caused this, arson/carelessness?)

Solid Air' by John Martyn

Smol bean fully adult soldier sad about the war crimes he participated in while invading a country that did fucking nothing to him

I really liked SPINAL TAP II (2025), maybe I just enjoy seeing old faces and British actors collected from a 2007 episode of QI

Footballers' names that bring to mind AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET

Big night to be a reveller

When O'Neill's got the contract to manufacture DR Congo's jerseys, there was a do and one of the head honchos gave a speech in which he referred to them several times as 'Doctor Congo'

De Gaulle recording a radio message

Why do you need to throw toilet roll into the urinal?? Men!!

They literally gave Vogue Williams a ladder to get ahead on Celebrity Gladiators

christmas LCD Soundsystem be like I'm losing my elves

Channel 4's heartwarming Christmas drama hinges on Stephen Fry being a hugely respected figure. Has Brexit happened in this timeline?

I'd sooner have them publish a story about me being some sort of sexual deviant than this

Watchin' darts and rippin' farts

Young lad at the market playing the theme from HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK on the uilleann pipes

They keep the Oldgrange for the premium-level VIPs. It's a scandal and a money racket

Oh, I am supposed to respect YouTuber 'AngryGinge' because he is 'Kung of the Jungle', yet when popular broadcaster Ryan Tubridy announces his move to that same platform, he is a 'washed unc'

Took this photo, torn from a hip magazine to the barber earlier