| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 4:30 pm |
Who doesnt love cats
Who says old poetry has to be all about fighting and jesus and all that. Heres one written by an anonymous Irish Benedictine monk who lived on lake constance where germany and austria meet in the 8th century about his lovely cat.
Pangur Bán
Messe ocus Pangur Bán,
cechtar nathar fria saindan:
bíth a menmasam fri seilgg,
mu memna céin im saincheirdd.
Caraimse fos (ferr cach clu)
oc mu lebran, leir ingnu;
ni foirmtech frimm Pangur Bán:
caraid cesin a maccdán. O ru biam (scél cen scís)
innar tegdais, ar n-oendís,
taithiunn, dichrichide clius,
ni fris tarddam ar n-áthius. Gnáth, huaraib, ar gressaib gal
glenaid luch inna línsam;
os mé, du-fuit im lín chéin
dliged ndoraid cu ndronchéill. Fuachaidsem fri frega fál
a rosc, a nglése comlán;
fuachimm chein fri fegi fis
mu rosc reil, cesu imdis. Faelidsem cu ndene dul
hi nglen luch inna gerchrub;
hi tucu cheist ndoraid ndil
os me chene am faelid. Cia beimmi a-min nach ré
ni derban cách a chele:
maith la cechtar nár a dán;
subaigthius a óenurán. He fesin as choimsid dáu
in muid du-ngni cach oenláu;
du thabairt doraid du glé
for mu mud cein am messe.
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 11:37 am |
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 10:26 am |
Heehee
 Stupid cold weather. i wanna go bouldering because ive no mates that climb (in ireland) |
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
| 12:31 pm |
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 3:49 pm |
3 nollys are better than 1!
 heres some pano fun we had when we went to fourknocks passage tomb last thursday. one the way there we passed a load of gardaí digging in a field. still havent found out who theyre looking for |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
| 9:43 am |
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| Monday, October 19th, 2009 |
| 11:05 am |
Magazine wall
 i found this brilliant website called abandonedireland.com which showcases loads of abandored buildings around the country. and theres no shortage. one of them was the magazine fort in the phoenix park. ( who likes deer? ) |
| Friday, October 9th, 2009 |
| 12:46 pm |
Top ten Total badass monsters from irish mythology!!!
Since its Halloween coming up soon. heres a list , in order of badassness to keep you interested,of the most fucked up gods, spirits and fairys from irish folklore. PREPARE FOR THE BADASSENING!!!!
1. the Banshee. Ssitting on a rock, combing her hair and letting out a god awefull scream, yep the queen of evil bitches is the banshee or fairy woman. this bitch is the only one that we were genuinely scared of as kids. imagine the boogyman coupled with screaming death bringing witch. i remember once my sister telling me how a girl in her class saw a banshee and then her da died. that of course freaked me out big time. also if you saw a comb on the street, that was a banshee comb so youd have to run away screaming and check to see if your family was still alive. feckin wagon!
( 9 more to go ) |
| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 |
| 6:53 pm |
Booooooooooooooooorrrred
im sick and really board. im trying to do some irish study but my damn cold and daytime tv were preventing me listen and repeat: nilim abalta ag foilaim na teanga mar tá iomarca snot i mo ceann - i am not able to learn languages because ive too much snot in my head. is fuadh loim mr bean. Cen faith go bhfuil siad abair se aris agus aris agus a-fucking-ris? - i hate mr bean. why to they have to repeat it again and again and a-fucking- gain an bhuful an iasc a trisha - is trisha a fish? |
| Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
| 11:23 am |
This is fun...
Im having alot of fun reading the have your say section of the bbc news website in the wake of the Yes to lisbon on friday. I was looking forward to this all along. After the last one when we voted no it was all 'the irish are the only ones that believe in democracy', 'ill be having a pint of guiness to celebrate' now its all democracy is dead, giving out about the stupid irish, one guy even said he the new dictators are going to have to kill him in order to silence him for someone who actually knows about the treaty....its bleedin hilarious http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&forumID=7071&start=0&tstart=0&edition=1&ttl=20091005110907#paginator |
| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 |
| 12:45 pm |
Irish Zombies. Na Neamh Mairbh
Yeah! Hows about some ancient zombie stories? who doesnt love zombies? Once upon a time in a land a few miles away, well Derry to be specific, there lived a king who has become known as abhartach (pronounced ah-war-tok) which means dwarf. this guy was a cruel little bollox. nasty to his subjects, wouldnt put his hand in his pocket for a round, no free health care, was saying stuff about your ma! i wouldnt even repeat it. so eventually the people of Derry had enough of this carry on and got a local chieftan to sort him out. some say it was Fionn Mac Cumhaill, in others hes named Cathrain. im gonna go with Fionn because hes cooler. So fionn kills abhartach and they bury him in a standing position outside the kings gaf. the next day who should turn up again abhartach. risen from the grace like that fella ET. and hes not in the best form. so he goes off on one. being more cruel than before, killing people, distributing wedgies and encouraging the busses to be late. so whats Fionn to do only kill him again, and bury him again. but the next day again its himself under his hat wrecking the place with his mad cruelty, looking for brains and spare change. 'ah for fuck sake!' says fionn ' i must be doing something wrong here'. so fionn goes and consults a druid who tells him what to do. fionn pays him his consultancy fee which he later claims back on expenses, which gets him a load of grief. so off he goes, kills the zombie dwarf king, drags him out to the grave, burys him head down and puts a dolmen on top of it. That dolmen is called Slaghtaverty Dolmen. In 1997 when workmen were trying to clear the hathorn tha gew around it. their chainsaws malfunctioned, a chain broke when tring to lift the capstone and someone fellover. some say it was the curse of abhartach, most say they were a bunch of fucking cowboys! ( And another for the road ) |
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| Monday, September 28th, 2009 |
| 11:11 am |
'Christ that high' cross
hwya ll. had a loverly weekend with the amazing nolly despite our respective broken-ness. photos of that to come but in the mean time heres some of a visit to monasterboise monastery up the road. i stopped off on my way back from cú chulainn's stone. now as far as monastaries go it does not have the all round awesomeness of glendalough or the political clout of clonmacnoise but it does have the coolest high crosses ive ever seen!
some bloke getting knifed, clearly after a trip to limerick ( high (cross) times ) |
| Friday, September 25th, 2009 |
| 2:46 pm |
Jaysus they wont give us paddys credit for anything
haha thats brilliant. I bet you didnt know the irish are a lost tribe of israel? or to give them their full title the fucking lost tribe of israel. i can just imagine the scene. 'Ok lads!' says moses 'weve been walkin around this bleedin desert for 35 years. I think its best we split up' 'but wait a minute moses' says some bloke 'we only have one ark whos going to take it' 'good point' says moses 'we need to give it to a tribe who has impecable homing instincts. a tribe who no matter how shitfaced they get, no mater how many neon signs may tempt them with the promises of curry chips. they still manage somehow to make their way home. wait......who was that tribe who when we were dieing of thirst did find the only off-liscence inthe sinai desert? give it to those lads, theyre surely the only ones who can deliver it safely to the promissed land. que thirty years later... 'your going the wrong way Ger O'Miah' 'shut up i know where im going' 'call me stupid but the land of milk and honey is suposed to be in the desert. im bleedin freezin!' 'look. how about we keep going this way until we hit a giant impassable ocean. then well know we are going the wrong way and turn back' i remember once i was at cairn T at loghcrew talking to a fella from the OPW who was telling me this american lad in a pointy hat turnd up with his followers saying cairn T was his burial mound as he was Jerimiah's reincarnation. then there was the people who though the mounds were built by UFOs. honestly they wont give us paddys credit for anything |
| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 |
| 11:17 pm |
Old man duffy shakes his fist at......Facebook
See us. our generation invented the internet! well maybe one or two older but the point remains that when we were kids we did not have it. when we wanted to know something we had to wallow in ignorance until someone made a TV program on it. we didnt have wikepedia, we had to rely on liars. we didnt have pirate bay, we had to wait until the song came on the radio then quickly press play and record on your shitty tape recorder and only catch half the song. But the worst thing is facebook. kids these days use it to gather friends to prove how popular they are by flauting their friends number. you know what we had to do? we had to break a limb! we had to fall off a wall onto our wrist, shatter it into 20 pieces then be rushed to hospital to have a cast put on so we could go up to people who we know the names off and go 'sign my cast!'. once the whole thing is covered in pen we were popular again they just dont know how lucky they are! |
| 4:24 pm |
Ah back in the day
God. i was just reading this. when notorious Irish criminal Pyker Ryan was arrested by the NYPD in 1884 he had the following bill of fare on him Punching $2 Both eyes blacked $4 Nose and jaw broke $10 Jacked out (knocked out with a Blackjack) $15 Ear chewed off $15 Leg or arm broke $19 Shot in the leg $25 Stab $25 "Doing the big job" (murder) $100 and up $15 to chew someones ear off??? wait. how many pints is that? |
| Monday, September 21st, 2009 |
| 11:12 am |
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009 |
| 11:39 pm |
Piccies
My shoulder hurts alot! so in frustration i decided to see what a few of my photos would look like in mono/duotone  ( B&W ) |
| 12:01 pm |
stupid immanent death!
So i was nearly in a plane crash last night. Not content with screwing me on airport charges. being half an hour late, ryanair decided to try and kill me. there we are descending when about 20 feet off the ground the pilot pulls agressevly skyward again. and i mean very agressively. this meaned we had to circle for another 20 minutes before landing again. god i hate those people. and no i didnt get an explaination other that 'we missed' apart from that weekend = awesome. was over in leeds with my beautiful girlfriend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nollipop we went to York which is officially my new favourite place in england. theglaive you would have loved it. stay tuned for piccies. also loads of climbing and surprising lack of injuries today despite some very very very physical climbs. anyhoo gotta dash back to work! |
| Saturday, September 5th, 2009 |
| 5:24 pm |
AAAGGH!!! rant on the lisbon treaty
i just had a screaming row with 6 support cóir campaighers who are advocating a no vote in the referendum on the lisbon treaty. i do get very angry with people who deliberatly misslead and outright lie about the facts in order to convince people to vote either way. but these guys take the biscuit. their two main slogans are 1.84 minimum wage? (note the question mark) 90% of europens would vote no. the first one is absolute untainted bullshit. it begars belief that anyone would actually believe that. their arguement is that after a european cort of justice (ECJ) ruling known as the Laval case eastern european companies could bring in workers from their own countries to work at a rate lower than the minimum wage. the Lavel case was refered to the european court by the swedish government when the labour court heard a case where a latvian company, laval, brought in workers from latvia at a lower rate than what swedish workers were paid. the european court found in favour of the latvian company. this coir argue would allow foreignh countries to unddermine our minimum wage. except they deliberatly leave out 2 very important facts. 1. at the time sweden had no legal minimum wage. 2. their collective bargainaing processes were not legally binding. therefore of course the company could pay whatever wages they wanted, there were no laws preventing them from doing so in sweden. this was a failing of swedish law, not european. ireland on the other hand does have a minimum wage. it is legally binding and cannot be set by the eu or anyone else. this is a national competency end of story. the arguemant is therefore bollox. the second slogan of 90% of europeans would vote against this is not a survey it is a quote from eu commisioner charlie mccreavy. one man. not a poll or a study but a quote from one man. the text explaining this is miniscule on the posters, you would need a ladder and a microscope to see this. this i said to them was deliberatly missleading. oh and they also said that qualified majority voting is dictatorship. so therefore democracy is dictatorship, this really is amazing honestly if their arguement to vote no had any merit they would not have to lie about it http://www.etui.org/en/Headline-issues/Viking-Laval-Rueffert-Luxembourg |
