Author Archives: Aaron McAllorum

Over to you Andy…

For much of my career, reading The Guardian was used as one of the most powerful symbols of how I was supposed to be weirdly different. Pathetic, really. It gave substance to the gossip that I was homosexual: Guardian reader equals gay boy. Some people really thought that added up.
Andy Townsend got on the bus to a game and saw me reading the paper, picked it up and said he wanted to look at the sport. He threw it back down a couple of seconds later. “There’s no f***ing sport in here,” he said. The rest of the lads laughed.

Graeme Le Saux: How Gay Slurs Almost Wrecked My Career (The Times, 2007)

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Frank Gordon writes:

I saw this in the car park of Lang’s in Grange [Co Sligo] on Saturday night…across two disabled spaces with no permit. I’m not sure what it is about Sligo/Donegal but I have never seen as many able-bodied people without permits parking in disabled parking spots. This one took first prize in ignorance though.

FIGHT!

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Overlooking Strand Road, Bray, Co Wicklow, moments ago.

It’s getting gnarly.

Thanks Anon

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On the seafront proper.

Existential storm guy is existential.

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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It can now be reported that David Cameron’s “unprecedented” public backing for Nigella Lawson during the fraud trial of her former personal assistants came close to collapsing the case because it was considered “an abuse of process”. The prime minister had stunned lawyers when he gave a magazine interview in the middle of the jury trial, where he described the TV chef – the key prosecution witness – as a “very funny and warm person” and said he was “a massive fan”.

 

Nigella Lawson assistants found not guilty of fraud (Daily Telegraph)

Nigella Lawson, Charles Saatchi and the ‘case with no winners’ (Guardian)

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The call was from a man with an English accent who was warning him that they were in the area [approximately 30 miles off the north west coast of Donegal.
…John [who took the image above] said: “The man we spoke to was a lad with an English accent and he wanted to know where we would be trawling.There could be more submarines out there but it could be the case that we simply don’t know they’re there.”

 

Anyone?

Fisherman Has Close Encounter With Submarine Off Donegal Coast (Donegal Daily)