55 thoughts on “The Last Limerick A Day”

  1. mills

    Won’t lie John. This one left a tear in my eye.

    Thank you for bringing your rhyme and whimsy to broadsheet over all these years. As much an institution as the aul broadsheet dog himself.

    I always liked the limericks about the really weird little pieces of news, and so often that’s exactly what they were. Thanks again John. Wishing you the very best

  3. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

    I’m feeling emotional, surprisingly so
    Loosing BS feels like loosing a friend who has multiple personalities, who entertains or drives you up the wall, who smells a bit and doesn’t cut the toenails only to come out of the bathroom looking like a big ride,
    ride on John and all the best x

  4. alickdouglas

    Thank you John, I found many interesting stories that I’d otherwise have overlooked thanks to your Limericks. Statistically significantly more flashes of joy than annoy I would hazard.

  5. Kim The Cardassian

    So Broadsheet is getting the axe,
    Because posting has got rather lax,
    “Its just such a crime”
    Says site owner John Ryan,
    “There’s nought wrong with being anti-vax”

    1. ce

      +1

      And thanks for the 5 lines that started everyday… a good snort of poetry gets you going in the morning…

  6. Fergalito

    Adieu John and thanks for reviving
    The limerick form and for scribing
    Those morsels of news
    With your own quirky views
    In the form of “aabba” rhyming

  7. Ah sure jaysus you know yourself

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    That’s like losing a friend. Though I rarely replied I never missed a day. Enjoy what comes. Thanks for all.

  9. Gene_C

    I’m still a bit in shock here John J. R.
    Your ‘Sheet was a constant in my life, from eagerly awaiting the front pages after 11pm, to all your unmistakably whimsical stories. You wrote the best straplines in the business, laugh-out-loud headers, more often than not.

    I suspect that like many of your BS readers & occasional contributors, I became totally turned off when the comments got so horrible, almost exclusively so towards the end. To those who ruined a beautiful thing, I wish you only obscurity and karma comeuppances.

    Tnx to Nick for the music heads up and to JB for the corny but sweet limericks.

    See ya on the other side

  10. Paulus

    For much of that decade I’d read
    All the topics you managed to knead
    Into five lines of verse,
    But now we disperse
    With your mark on the ‘Sheet guaranteed.

  11. Duncan Wheeler

    A place where we could all come
    to opine, bicker enlighten and have fun
    I took it for granted, lightly done,
    “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone” *

    Thank you BS for saving my sanity in these insane times. Best of everything good in your lives in the future.

    1. Duncan Wheeler

      & to all of the commenters who charmed and infuriated
      in equal measure, thank you too for all the thought food.

  12. Clampers Outside

    I wish I could write you a ditty,
    I’m too easily distracted by…
    Oh look, a cat!

    Thank you for the Limericks John, fair dues! :)

  13. Broadbag

    Thanks for the daily efforts John, they always raised a smile or smirk and were appreciated.

  15. The Mad Account

    And so all good things must end
    Your rhymes, the days did bookend
    We will miss you John
    We hope you keep on
    Elsewhere, our eyes and ears we can lend

  17. U N M U T U A L

    There was a fella named Moynes
    Like a bird every morn did chime
    Tales procured from the news
    That left us slightly bemused
    Farewell Broadsheets Guru of Rhymes…

  19. Slightly Bemused

    I remember the first time that I read your lines
    As with coffee helped my senses align
    To sum up your views
    On those nuggets of news
    All done in in a manner just fine

    As said more eloquently above, John, your lines were essential reading as I woke each morning. When you started, I thought that you had taken on quite a challenge, but one you managed with aplomb. I did wonder where you found those little stories, and what would inspire you to write that day.

    Once read, I could truly start my day. Take care, and keep rhyming

  21. Liam Deliverance

    Thank You John Moynes for an amazing contribution to the site over the years, always enjoyed reading your work.

  22. paddy apathy

    A decade well spent Mr Moynes.
    Thanks for all the daily rhymes.
    As other posters mention, rarely commented but always read and inevitably followed the link to the subject of your poems.
    I will miss that.

  24. carlosfandango

    Thanks so much John, for your great contributions and beautiful lyrical content. Always something to look forward to… Jaysus, it really feels like the end now :-(

  25. ProfessorMark

    I wish we didn’t have to go
    But you see it has to be so
    The stories we ran were oh so low
    our audiences we could not grow
    Now with libel, no ads or cash
    Its seems today is our one last dash
    If we had known the anti vax stupidity that was sown
    We might be still here today with revenues grown
    It was not to be, because you see,
    Bodger could only think of ‘me’
    Thats why we are here, plug to pull
    Beacuse we could not other opinions mull
    Now off we go, on a big low
    Balance in journalism we did never know

    1. Tumbelina

      Hi Professor Mark, if Bodger had only thought of ‘me’ he’d be coining it in by now and you’d be licking up to him for paid work. You have absolutely no understanding of the dedication and selflessness shown by Bodger to his commenters and contributors and indeed all his fellow Irishmen and women. I wrote you a little pome to learn you. It’s below. I doubt you’ll understand, or listen, but I hope others will.

      1. jonjoker

        Back in the nineties, someone came up with the phrase ‘pensée unique’ for the neo-liberal agenda that suddenly filled all the media to the virtual exclusion of all else.
        Even then, though, there was the occasional crack in the edifice that allowed other thoughts & points of view through.
        The Covid agenda was & is ‘pensée unique’ on steroids, and it seems that even that tiny crack is intolerable to many.
        Shame on those who have pushed this agenda so single-mindedly and refuse to countenance any other possibility.

  26. Limerick's finest

    Of things I could always predict
    A favourite was always Moynes’ ‘ricks
    Each day on the ‘Sheet
    or contained in a tweet
    His rhymes about news never slipped.

  27. Gary Flood

    As ‘Sheet Towers is bathed in sad twilight,
    I must say, (not meaning to sound trite),
    That the ditties of Moynes,
    Though not written for coins,
    Were no doubt a quotidian highlight.

    Fair play, John, and thanks.

  28. Dave

    So sorry to see b s going, I’ve loved all the craic on it over the years , hopefully you’ll come again

  29. Tumbelina

    Professor Mark thinks he does know
    Exactly how this site did flow
    But he was on the other side
    Someone who could just run and hide
    When things got tough;
    He never watched the evening taper
    Waiting for the Saturday papers
    He never strained his empty brain
    For headlines brooking no refrain
    From praise; He never tried his best to be
    The friend that everyone wants to see
    He never tried to create a world
    Better than the one into which he was hurled
    He never suffered constant public barbs
    Designed to tear his confidence to shards
    Or perpetual constant mischaracterisation
    Based on some last century altercation
    And as a result he is infinitely poorer
    Because self-sacrifice and suffering makes one surer
    And wins one love from those who matter
    Those who live to encourage and not to shatter
    Our lives are a drink, poured in a cup
    I don’t fancy the taste of what he’ll sup.

  32. Triona Ryan

    Your Limericks made people’s day
    Your words clearly had lots of sway
    Reems of prittle prattle
    All ment to rattle
    The readers of Broadsheet I’d say

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