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Frilly Keane writes:

Just arrived this morning. Cork Socks, handmade and highly recommended A Stocking (personalised n’all) as a Stocking Filler, already wrapped…N’ change from 25yoyos [€25} What more d’want?

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Mark Lloyd writes:

I have a book of absurdly funny short stories which my newly-founded Limerick-based publishing house has prepared. It is by the new Irish humourist Thaddeus Lovecraft. Please, please, please let your lovely, nice-smelling patrons know about it for a stocking filler.

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eBook: here

Audio sampler here: here

karls brotherOur Karl writes:

Galway fireman calendar [in aid of Custic fibrosis] for the Christmas stockings. €5 plus postage. My brother is Mr April* (above).

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Irish Made Stocking Fillers top broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No charge.

*actual fact.

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In 2010, he gave us the Cowen/Lenihan-baiting singalong ‘We Are Where We Are’

Now Paddy Cullivan tears the latest state-imposed cliche a new one as Ireland ‘exits’ the bailout.

A festive Christmas 2013 anthem featuring Brian Moylett  (drums) and  Cormac Moore (bass).

Joy to the world.

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Paddy Cullivan

Directed and edited by Jenny Keogh Production: Cormac Moore 

 

donovan[John Donovan, who was forced to kill and barbecue pigeons to survive, according to yesterday’s new York Times]

Not hungry.

But he has a certain set of skills.

Faced with an expensive separation and medical costs for his ill mother, who has since passed away, he sold his five-bedroom house.

“I decided I was going to cut the bills to nothing. I thought, ‘I’m going to fend for myself’. I have a fully licensed shotgun. I’m an experienced hunter so I started shooting a few pigeons in the fields around Shankill, so that’s where that came from.

“I fish as well so I catch trout and caught loads of mackerel so I filleted and froze them,” he said.

 

‘NY Times was wrong: I don’t have to hunt pigeons to survive’ (Independent.ie)

Via Gavin Daly

Previously: Meanwhile, In Shankill

Thanks Fluffybiscuits

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Post by Ana Gog.

Andrew writes:

A great Irish band, Ana Gog, are currently on tour in India, check out their newest band member in Bombay. Great to see a good bunch of lads doing well!!

Ana Gog (Facebook)

court[John English described as a “serious threat to the women of Cork” was granted bail yesterday against the reactivation of the suspended portion of his 18-year sentence]

Counsel for English, Dominic McGinn SC, yesterday told the Court of Criminal Appeal that the obligation for English to abide by all recommendations of the probation service was placed on him for five years from Jun 28, 2004 — the date of his sentence — and not the date of his release from prison in Sept 2012. He said this was the only bond entered into by English.
Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman, presiding, said this “elegant and narrow” point, an unusual structural matter concerning the constitution of a court order, appeared to be arguable.
He said the court considered Mr McGinn had raised a substantial point, albeit “an entirely technical one”, which allowed English to surmount the hurdles by way of getting bail pending an appeal. As any release on bail would also have to be under terms and conditions, the judge said the court itself would take the bond…

Anyone?

Legal Coffee Drinker’s verdict to follow.
‘Threat to women of Cork’ freed on bail (Brian Kavanagh, Irish Examiner)

Photo: Courtpix

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