Covfefe – If You Don’t Understand You Don’t Matter
Not since Spike Milligans nonsense verse, or James Joyce idiosyncratic language in Finnegans wake, has one persons twist on the English language …
May the Lord In His Mercy Save Us From the Worst of Mac Leod
Im sure some are good people From the shadows of Tong steeple But the one the world does know Contempt for all …
No Horse Sense in Galway
The furore being kicked up over urban horses by supporters of Mike Cubbard a city council member rumbles on. Something of a …
The Hair Brained Fight the Hair Braiders
One arm of Galway City Council commissioned a derelict wall to be painted by a professional graffiti artist as the 2020 City …
Galway 2020 Plus Ultra
Galway’s bid to win Capital of Culture is all twenty twenty give the horse plenty. ~ Rita Ann Higgins Galway won the …
Fear the Little People
The business man from America was in Ireland to see the sights In Blarney to see and kiss the stone, in Donegal …
All Is Fair in the War of an Election
Background – James Bannon of Fine Gael in Longford got questioned today by Garda (police) about removing voting leaflets belonging to Sinn …
Bar Drunks and the Bards
Bards of today, heckled, by the critical ear That drinking, poetry does not want to hear Cant handle poetry, that they know …
Glam Dicenn on Daesh
May the strength that they seek elude them As they are blind to the faith they profess The glory sought be thwarted: …
Ill Go Where Im Sent
Invitation received: all were excited Again their friends where they are twinned they would meet Its not a junket: this, this is …
Snotgreen
Buck Mulligan: “The Bards noserag. A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, cant you?” Ulysses- …
One Trick Pony
The one trick pony does its dance A dance we all enjoy But the other ponies that do more than dance It …
Fiddling at Longford
As if Nero, as the city is destroyed Consumed by economic storm Fiddle is played – how good we are Come, listen …
You’d Think It Was A Great Place If You Didn’t Know It
“Jesus, you’d think Leitrim was a great place (listening to the song) if you didnt feckin know it!” ~ John Carty of …
In Praise of Cheese
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – G.K. Chesterton The answer to all of our problems Allows those …
God Was Drunk on Porter
Drinking in a back street bar On the wrong side of town Swaying on a bar stool Gulping his drink down Shouting …