Winter starts today; at least it does if you are a weather forecaster and not an astrologist. For those folk, we have another three weeks of autumn to go but meteorologists like to break the seasons up into exact quarters for, as I recall, statistical purposes (solstices and equinoxes fall on different days each year you see).
So today winter starts and will continue until the 1st March when it will be nice and warm once again, with the ...
Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has allegedly given the green light for Donald Trump to open fire on a Muslim owned restaurant on his state visit next year.
According to sources, the narcissistic nazi will be allowed to use a semi-automatic assault rifle on staff at a yet to be named Southall restaurant. This will be the day before he pretends he wants a favorable post-Brexit trade deal with the UK and shortly before Harry and Meghan announce she ...
As the years, decades and centuries pass, we tend to evolve and move forward, trying to find ways of making amends for previous poor judgement, whether it be in the environment, the financial sector or by our treatment of other nations that may have seemed logical at the time.
There are problems along the way and whilst things such as cleaning up polluted beaches, employment rights and health and safety can be expensive and time consuming at ...
When I was at the Spike Island prison in Cork Harbour on Saturday, I was absolutely delighted with the new addition to the bulging useless facts department of my brain.
It came courtesy of 28 year-old Mr James Gray from Manchester, England.
James Gray the Jack-In-The Box
Gray designed a spring loaded box that could be opened from the inside and marked it 'WITH CARE' and 'THIS SIDE UP'.
He would then get inside and ask an accomp...
The first thing you notice when travelling to Cork is that if you ask anyone for directions you could be there for some time, as they do love to talk.
The first time we did this we asked a chap if there were any traditional pubs he would recommend. He asked if we had been to Ireland before and whether we were expecting to see people River Dancing down the street before offering us a plethora of choices.
We ended up in a bar called ...
