I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?
1/3 My dad was in the motor trade. We lived in a rural enough area. About 20 years ago, a neighbour's car got crashed into.
The other car had just driven off, so they had no idea who had done it. They asked my dad to have a look to see if he had any idea how much it would cost to fix it.
The M2 has to be Ireland’s most obscure motorway - even the fuel protesters, who are blocking every motorway in the state, seem to have forgotten about it. It’s only 13/17km (depending on whether you include the wider but non-motorway 4km section where it meets the M50) and never has any congestion
I’ve never heard Kneecap confirm this but I always took their name to be a pun as Gaeilge because ‘knee cap’ in English is pronounced the same as ‘no idea’ (‘ní cheap’) in Irish
Friends fear he’s started a Substack: substack.com/@hostafrancs...
Alan Baxter
Congrats Pope Leo XIV, commiserations Pope Leo V
Forbidden Squashie
Whatever about the methods of these “fuel protesters” (I use that term advisedly as I don’t think fuel prices are their sole or even main issue as much as general disgruntlement), engaging with them as if you’re dealing with rational people will get you nowhere (they called him “paedo” afterwards)
Ashbourne is incredibly cyclable and it’s much quicker to go for quick errands around the town by bike. This is a 3km journey, it took 8 minutes. With traffic lights & general traffic at lunchtime, you’re talking up to twice that by car #activetravel #ireland #ashbourne #andacyclist #cyclingireland
Sometimes I think a massive international pop star’s tour bus pulled into a Circle K on the Mullingar bypass, he went out for a smoke, bumped into a local filling up his Dad’s Avensis and set off his mystical Egyptian necklace, which swapped their lives in an instant. Hence we have Niall Horan
