Marcus Aurelius

Mobile phones. Love them or hate them, there’s no getting away from them. They’re dead handy when you need to get in touch with someone quickly, but they do have some serious drawbacks. I’m not just talking about narcissistic iPhone retards or obsessive Twitter addicts (though they certainly contribute). Hence, I present the top...
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Ever watch Whale Wars? It’s about a bunch of animal rights protestors who chuck stink bombs and the like onto Japanese whaling vessels around Antarctica. The idea is to stop the japs from hunting whales for “scientific purposes”, i.e. hack out the meat and oil for the domestic market. Whether they’re being chopped up...
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In the long decades of popular globalised music, many artists have shocked and offended. The bar has been raised and raised so it takes a bit more than lyrics about snorting coke and shagging groupies to jar our jaded tastes. But a few bands are still capable of giving serious offense and I have...
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Work eh? Shite isn’t it? Well, it must be. Swathes of people bitch and moan about their job. And yet, thousands upon thousands of CVs will be sent this week. Job interviews will be sought after, favours will be called in to get a foot in the door of innumerable companies up and down...
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Alfred Banker was a simple man with a simple plan. He wanted ever so badly to get arrested by the guards. Being a bit of a masochist, our Banker, he got off on the idea of being cornholed by violent sociopaths in Mountjoy. But how to do it? Well, A. Banker worked for Anglo...
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Capitalism has been getting a bad rap lately. Recession this, banking crisis that. To listen to some people talk, the end of free market economics is nigh. The various tiny socialist parties in Ireland are sticking up a bunch of posters with Marx’s beardy mug all over them, advertising speakers who’ll waffle on about...
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The season of Halloween is finally upon us (even if some started “celebrating” early). It’s a bit late in the day to go shopping for Halloween costumes, but here’s a few ideas anyway for the late shopper and those who fancy making one up. Without further ado, the top five Halloween costumes this year!...
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Could it be? A Fianna Fáil TD who talks some sense? Chris Andrews, a TD from a political dynasty representing Dublin South East, suggested on Twitter that the civil war era parties of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should do a merger. He clarified this when questioned, that he envisioned more of a “realignment”....
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Traditionally, the British have had a bad reputation in Ireland. The centuries of occupation, the suppression of Irish culture and the callous treatment of the ordinary people during the plantations and the Famine. So plenty of cause to hate the Brits. Right? Wrong. The Brits did us a pile of good. Any racist wankers...
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There’s been a furore in the Irish and British media over a drug addict “John”. He accepted £200 from the charity Project Prevention to get a vasectomy. He’s content to get the snip, having spent two-thirds of his life addicted to drugs and saying outright that he shouldn’t be a father. Barbara Harris...
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