The Love Of My Life TLOML sat opposite me trying to take it all in. "So, you think your daughter ordered a paternity test? Sounds like the thing her Mother would do ( Read more... )

Congratulations to those of you who are recently engaged also. Not so much a case of "We found Eichmann" as "We found Mountbatten".
Or - I am like Glen Whitehouse.

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I had a brush with mortality recently and morbidly got one of those brochures for a pre paid funeral. Family motto goes on the headstone "Summam nec metuam diem, nec optem". My male cousins have been told that if one particular person turns up they will be "encouraged to leave" with baseball bats and pickaxe handles.

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Gript seem to be in the centre of a storm. It appears that they misidentified the Algerian who tried to murder (or murdered) a five year old girl "Sarah" plus several other innocent bystanders. The police (Garda Siochana/Geisha Sayonara) are now guarding Bensaada round the clock. This blog is unable to post to X (Twitter) along with a prominent ( Read more... )

Apart from the fact that this account has been disabled from posting on "X" (Twitter) plus one other Livejournal account with more followers and readers, something else cropped up. Who was the Irish politician who allowed the Algerian who attached 5 year old "Sarah" into Ireland? We hear it is Leo Varadkar, the gay Indian Prime Minister. Not only ( Read more... )

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Did Sinead O'Connor/Magda Davitt/Shuhada Saqadat commit suicide? Probably. Dolores O'Riordan was a junkie with mental health issues - perhaps Mother Bernadette Maria was too. I heard O'Connor live outsode the UK Embassy in Dublin, 14 August 1989 warbling "Irish laws and Irish ways".

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Reading about the Irish children left orphaned after Cromwellian genocide. It actually answered a question on genetics. Hopefully I can make some progress on a topic I've reached a dead end on. 

A very Scottish blog post today, the chiefship of Clan MacEwen is to be filled after 600 years. Don't worry I am not going to challenge it. I saw the claimant in Edinburgh in 2009, largest gathering of Scottish clan chiefs since Culloden. Thing is, the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs stick to a lengthy and thorough legal process. The Irish ( Read more... )

With high unemployment, no emigration and the police about to swoop on activists, is Ireland about to have its "Celtic Spring"?

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