It was the type of field trip Dúlra had been dreaming of. The patrons of the Roddy’s on Glen Road had been hearing some strange sounds of late – no, not the karaoke – but from amid the huge, dark trees that surround the club. As the smokers were enjoying the fresh mountain air, […]
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Sign of the rural times
A LOVELY and lengthy Sunday afternoon stroll through rural County Armagh on Sunday. 16 miles according to the health app on Squinter’s mobile phone, which is good going but by no means a record. Here’s a telegraph pole on the Loughgall Road between Armagh and, ah, Loughgall. And there’s a barbed-wire-protected sign written in […]
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Oh, for just the tiniest bit of piece and quiet
HERE’S Squinter’s lunch, above, in a picture taken on his mobile phone on Monday. At lunchtime, funnily enough. What the hell is Squinter doing taking pictures of his piece?, Squinter hears you cry. And you’d be right to be curious and scathing in equal measure. But houl’ yer hand on the shafts, as Squinter’s […]
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Jeepers!
SQUINTER thought at first glance this is a Range Rover Evoque, the fancy 4X4 so beloved of second-tier football players, small company directors and mid-level drug-dealers. But he was wrong. In fact, it probably won’t be long before you see one of these at a Camp Twaddell near you. This is the new generation of […]
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Leavers couldn’t have done a better job destabilizing Britain
I WAS surprised to see tens of thousands of people out demonstrating in London last Saturday against Britain’s decision to leave the EU. Not because I don’t think there are tens of thousands of British people who are appalled to the point of tears by what their fellow countrymen and women have done. No, […]
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Being part of Irish history
I HATE the term ‘Brexit’. I spent far too long in a meeting early last summer trying to figure out what it meant and didn’t ask in case I looked stupid, And then I realised: “Oh, Britain Exiting… or something… ugh.” I was then totally distracted from the next ten minutes of the meeting, […]
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