I’m not sure how people would feel,
In a car with no one at the wheel,
The boffins say that,
It works like a bat,
But I still can’t believe the thing’s real.
John Moynes
(Times)
Author Archives: John Moynes
It’s a whiskey festival.
Not a whisky festival.
Oisin Davis writes:
The older distilleries are expanding to meet global demand and there are new distilleries being built around the entire country. The wheels are in motion for Irish whiskey to make a massive comeback! So why not celebrate with some of the best venues in the capital city?
Dublin Whiskey Fest kicks off on February 16 and runs until February 21st.
Twenty five venues [see below] are coming on board and each one of them will be offering up a special Irish whiskey drink at a 30% discount.
As Irish whiskey is such a versatile spirit, we wanted the venues to feature their choice of one of five different serves. So each venue will be selling either a hot toddy, an Irish coffee, an Irish whiskey cocktail, a pairing with a local beer or just a neat serve.
Participating bars?
57, The Headline; Against The Grain ; BarRustic; Bison Bar; Brasserie 66; Bull & Castle ; Coppinger Row; Delahunt; Diep Le Shaker; Ely, CHQ; Fade Street Social; Koh; Mary’s Bar and Hardware; Peruke & Periwig; Saba; The Blind Pig; The Liquor Rooms;The Palace Bar; The Old Storehouse; The Stag’s Head; Tribeca; Ukiyo; Upstairs @ Kinara Kitchen ; Vintage Cocktail Club.
Hic.
Some doctors are now convinced that,
There’s no need to cut down on fat,
That diet won’t start,
To sort out your heart,
So don’t bother. It’s final. That’s that.
John Moynes
(Telegraph)
Next Easter we’ll all dress in green,
And look back at nineteen sixteen,
But when we all go,
To the GPO,
We won’t be inviting the Queen.
John Moynes
(Photocall Ireland)
The radio figures are in,
So all of the broadcasters spin,
Poor old Liveline,
Is not doing fine,
But Tubridy had a small win.
John Moynes
JNLR
NBC’s Brian Williams
A newsreader’s had to say why,
He once told a whopping great lie,
The dirty old liar,
Said he came under fire,
In Iraq, somewhere up in the sky.
John Moynes
(NBC)
Six young Irish women.
Convicted of witchcraft and assorted sorcery in the 17th century.
A wicked miscarriage of justice.
Or was it?
In what is believed to have been the last witch trials in the British Isles, the women were convicted in a Carrickfergus court over 300 years ago and spent a year in prison, as well as being put in the public stocks.
Renowned Irish novelist Martina Devlin has penned a new book on the subject, and she also requested that Larne Borough Council erect a small memorial to the women.
….But TUV Alderman Jack McKee has decried the proposal as “anti-God” and said he could not support it.
According to minutes of a council meeting in January, Ald McKee said he “could not tell whether or not the women had been rightly or wrongly convicted as he didn’t have the facts and was not going to support devil worship”.
*lights pitchfork phones Legal Coffee Drinker*
Council row over Islandmagee ‘devil worship’ plaque (LarneTimes)
From now on the state will refuse,
To let shops sell underpriced booze,
What’s good for our health,
May be bad for our wealth,
And leave drinkers singing the blues.
John Moynes
Ireland map by Rudy Hellzapoppin
In the years since the property crash,
While being propped up with our cash,
The lads at the banks,
Found time to give thanks,
To themselves with a clandestine bash.
John Moynes
(AIB)
Junior Minister Dara Murphy
In Cork it is widely agreed,
That Dara’s a fellow in need,
Of building a stash,
Of electoral cash,
So they’ll pay out big bucks for a feed.
John Moynes
(Fine Gael)