Jim Cusack Sunday Independent - World's Worst "Journalist"

From the Balcony, A Publisher's Blog: Can reporting can get any worse than this?
It's worth reading Máirtín Ó Muilleoir's blog re Jim Cusack of the west-brit "newspaper", The Sunday Independent

Oxford Dictionary - new word!

It's usually heard on the Northside of Dublin. ( well, in Bar 52 anyway) Phonetically it's -
" hee a ah.."
Possibly it means...Hello... excuse me... can I have a drink please...?
Answers on a postcard please

And Talking About Coffee...

On Tuesday of last week I bought 2 Espresso coffees in Porto, Portugal and they cost me €1.20 (60 cent each).
Today I bought 2 Espresso coffees in the Coachman's Inn near Dublin airport and they cost me €5.50 (€2.75 each).

And the coffee in Porto tasted ten times better!

Go to the back of the geography class Mr Starbucks

My friend Katarzyna spotted this strange notice in Starbucks Cafe on College Green recently.

I must say that Starbucks have THE best coffee in town, their Cafe's have a great atmosphere and friendly staff ...
But 10 years in the UK?
Er.. we are not in the UK Mr Starbuck!

Oh well, I suppose it's hard to be good at everything!

The Blizzards' Niall Breslin talking a lot of sense...

I read an interview with The Blizzards frontman, Niall Breslin in a recent Hot Press magazine. Must say this man talks a lot of sense! Here is an extract from the interview.

" Staying on the theme of alcohol, what does Breslin make of the government's recent decision to curtail off license hours to 10pm?"
"That's one thing that pisses me off", he fumes. "I was listening to Newstalk recently and this guy was going that alcohol is so cheap ... have you been to southern Spain? You can get a bottle of wine for a euro and you don't see locals walking around puking. This country is being run by old men. Old, boring farts who need to cop the fuck on and stop closing off licences at 10pm and closing nightclubs early. The whole thing stinks. It's turning us into Communists. They're not even giving us a fucking choice about this - that's the worst part about it. Don't bloody lecture us on being bloody democratic and shit like this when you don't give us any choice in it. And if we do protest, we get our arse kicked and thrown in jail. I don't give a fuck about Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael or any of them - they're all the same essentially - and, at the end of the day, they only give a shit about being in power. What they're doing now is trying to take away any bit of fun we're having.
I do understand that there's a huge problem with alcohol in Ireland, but I don't think that's the fucking way to go about fixing it."

Niall Breslin for President?
p.s. Check out the Blizzards latest chart hit, the infectious "Trust Me I'm a Doctor"