Author Archives: Bodger

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This morning.

Portobello, Dublin 8.

Labour Senator Ivana Bacik arriving at her polling station with husband Alan Saul and dog Ginny, to cast her vote in the Dublin Bay South by-election this morning.

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Meanwhile…

This morning.

RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Fianna Fáil candidate Deirdre Conroy with her sons as they voted  in the Dublin Bay South by-election this morning.

Earlier: The Auld Triangle

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This morning.

The Triangle, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar and Dublin Bay South Fine Gael candidate James Geoghegan canvass as the election to fill the Dáil seat vacated by former Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy gets underway.

Yesterday: Vote Like My Future Depends On It

Pic via Fer Otero

From top: Niall Stokes, editor and founder of Hot Press; the magazine endorses Ivana Bacik, Labour candidate in today’s Dublin Bay South by-election

Kevin writes:

In the 2016 General Election Hot Press also endorsed the Labour Party, who had at that stage been in government for five years, implementing austerity, attempting to impose water charges, and getting the housing crisis going. Hot Press did this on the basis that only with Labour in government would the 8th amendment be repealed. This turned out not to be the case. Labour lost all but 7 of its 37 seats and were out of government. But the 8th amendment was repealed in any case in 2018. Labour actually were in government when the 8th amendment was introduced in 1983…In this poem I pay tribute to the intellectual giant that is Hot Press Editor Niall Stokes. This poem should be read while prostrating oneself in front of a large colour photograph of Michael D. Higgins, or failing that Ruairi Quinn, preferably while naked.

Soliloquy in Voice of Ageing Rock Journalist

There I was on the meditation mat
Jackson Browne gave me to mark
the year of the rat, naked apart
from what’s left of my tremendous
hair, incantating the word
“progressive” to my holy self
and the tiny birds at
the window, who are always
my best first audience,
when the truth came to me:

no other combination of parties
can deliver the certain
(and required) surge
inwhole family suicide
among those made live in the kind of hotels
not frequented by Keith Richards,
that will occur
if this government is returned,
as it must be.

I’m most famous
for having once, allegedly,
shared a hot tub, and my thoughts
on the heroic death
of Salvador Allende,
with Ireland’s baldest
living intellectual.

I’m what happens when you take
not quite enough cocaine.
During a session at Lille’s Bordello,
I once pulled Bono’s finger;
or what I thought was
Bono’s finger.

I offer these words as evidence
that I’m not actually dead yet. Satan
be good to me and what remains
of my hair.

Kevin Higgins

RollingNews

This afternoon.

The Dáil at the Convention Centre, Dublin.

And he would have got away with until the oppositon parties one independent TD stopped him.

Previously: EU Citizens Can Start Travelling With COVID-19 Certificates From July 1, the Council Says (SchengenVisaInfo)

Dublin Bay South Fine Gael candidate James Geoghegan (left) and Tanaiste Leo Varadkar

This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

Um.

Earlier: My Boy

Image via YouTube

Dublin City Marathon in 2015


This morning/afternoon.

Thousands of healthy people running around the city?

What were you thinking?

Meanwhile….

Ah here.

RollingNews

This afternoon.

Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Members of Extinction Rebellion – urging a ‘sea change’ concerning pollution, over-fishing and habitat destruction in our seas – hand a petition reflecting these concerns to Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform Malcolm Noonan (above right) outside Leinster House.

They’re living in a bream world.

*casts line*

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

Maxi’s Dublin Pubs

The results are in.

You may recall our recent Jam Art Prints competitions.

First up, we offered a pub print (above) by designer and artist Maxi to whoever could dream up the most amusing pub name.

Italia’90 won over the judges with this topical collection of Bodger-baiting hostelries:

‘Jabbey Tavern; Tony Holoney’s Boloney Bar; Bodgers and Gammonsteins; Lemmings and Dupes; Gullible Taverns; Johnny Dangerously Ryans; The Ratlicker Lodge and Vaxxie Dargle’s.’

Hic.

Meanwhile…

Paddy Duffy’s Stella Cinema

With a beautiful cinema print by Paddy Duffy on offer, we asked you for your most memorable ‘flea-pit’ experience.

After much deliberation the print went to Barry Hartigan, who recalled:

‘Back in the autumn on 1991 I rolled out of some disreputable night club with a pal in the wee small hours of the morning and in a fit of inspiration we decided to go see The Commitments! When the film opened the Savoy on O’Connell St had it exclusively for a week and as a PR stunt they were showing it around the clock in their No 1 cinema. We got there at 3am, give or take, and managed to get to get 2 of the last few tickets. The cinema held almost 800 people and it was packed. I had already seen the film which was handy as it was practically impossible to follow due to the exuberance of the pissed up crowd.
Watching a fun film like that with a crowd that roared at every joke and sang along to every song, whether they knew the words or not, was an amazing experience The sheer joy of those two hours is something I’ve never experienced since in a cinema anywhere in the world. Only in Dublin…’

Well done Barry and Italia’90.

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