How many Insomnia cafes are there in Dublin? They seem to be everywhere I look, nestled in every corner of each street I walk through. Inside you can purchase the same generic fodder that passes for coffee house cuisine in this city. Why go to a different cafe, when you can go to the same one, no matter where you are?
Slowly but surely, everything is homogenising. Walking down O’Connell street is amazingly disappointing. Why do we need a Boots pharmacy in Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, Grafton street and the Jervis Shopping centre? [Click for More]
Did you hear about the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes? When I read that name in a paper the other day I didn’t know what it was referring to, but then realised it’s the actual name of the government appointed cost-cutting board nicknamed ‘An Bórd Snip Nua,’ by everyone it seems. The traditional ‘humorous’ term for Government cost-cutting committees is An Bórd Snip, and this one is a new one, hence ‘An Bórd Snip Nua’. God blasht it my sides are splitting. I expect yours are too. All media outlets are going with this hilarious name. Even the supposedly high-brow newspapers throw it out every day, afraid to look like the old fart at a teen disco. Well, it’s annoying. Damn kids today with their language…
The SGoPSNaEP or backwards, PEANSPOGS (that’s way better than Bórd Snip Nua) is charged with the task of pulling the country from the river of faeces it’s currently languishing in and putting it back into the bigtime list somewhere around the level of Liechtenstein or Djibouti. Then we can get the heads down and move onto the next boom, all becoming rich again for about five years while creating nothing and then losing the lot and blowing our brains out. It’s the Irish way.