Monthly Archives: September 2011

5. “No they’re queuing for the shitters, there isn’t a queue for the pissers” (A man shouting to his friend in queue for the Portaloo)

4. “We knew this girl called Edel and she looked – honestly – like an elephant. So we called her Edelephant.” (man in tent)

3. Respectable looking middle aged man buys burger at Rebel Burger van.

Guy Who Is Clearly On Drugs: (pointing at burger) “Ah man you should eat that!”

Respectable Looking  Middle-Aged Man: “Sorry, what?”

G.W.I.CO.D (shouting enthusiastically): “You should totally eat that!”

R.L.M.A.M: (deadpan) “Oh, so you are suggesting I should eat the burger that I have just purchased?”

G.W.I.C.O.D: (Relieved his point has been understood) “Yeah man, eat it!”

2. Saturday morning, a group of lads eating their breakfast outside their tents. A guy who probably hasn’t slept approaches them.

Guy Who Hasn’t Slept: (politely) “Sorry lads have you any ketamine?”

Lads: “Er…no.”

Guy Who Hasn’t Slept: “No problem, it’s a pity though…good market to get into.”

1. Man walking into the main arena with friends: “So I had this dream where there was like a party and I dreamt this phone number and I remembered the number when I woke up, so I rang it and I got this guy’s voicemail. Anyway I left him a voicemail explaining what happened…but he never got back to me.”

Overheard at the Electric Picnic (Meg.ie)

Two students have blocked part of the roadway into the hotel by lying on the road with their arms chained together.

They say they have been forced to take such radical action because they’re not being listened to by the Government.

Student Senan McGee said he wants the Government to pay attention to their concerns.

Student protest Outside FG Galway Meet (Examiner)

Man in trenchoat on hunkers: RTE R1’s Fergal Keane.

Pic by Niamh Connolly