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Eoghan Walsh

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Irish writer, Brussels based. Writes on food and drink, travel, keeps an urban diary at Brussels Notes https://www.brusselsnotes.substack.com

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · Aug 13

I Have a Love — The Resurrection of Beer, Football and Community Under Dublin Floodlights

For @pelliclemag.com, I wrote about the stunning twin revivals of Dublin football & Dublin brewing.

Featuring Phibsboro shopping centre immortalised by @davidsquires.bsky.social

I Have a Love — The Resurrection of Beer, Football and Community Under Dublin Floodlights — Pellicle

On 15 July 2009, Stephen Clinch landed in Salzburg, tired and confused, after jetting from Dublin to Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, back to Dublin, and finally, to Munich. He’d been buying equipment for hi...

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

Have these Irish players ever met each other before?

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

to be sure to be sure to be sure

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

Will we be the first host nation to fail to qualify for their own tournament in 3 years time?

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 11h

Watching the Ireland game and the English commentator keeps referring to "The Irish" in the way they do, when he means "Ireland", and it's making me unaccountably angry.

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

hmmmm

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

have we met John?

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

that's true, I went for a maximalist interpretation. Eli getting brained at the end just wasn't enough for me, PTA.

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

too much road if you ask me

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

That’s probably enough to reach the threshold

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 15h

Are there many pretty horses in the book or is it a “There will be blood” type scenario (not a lot of blood)?

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 15h

I see Brussels has been left in a state again.

Workers of the world unite and all that, but next time could you take a couple of binbags with you for the empty tinnies and discarded placards?

And maybe lay off the graffiti too, because we don’t have the money right now to clean it 😬

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 16h

I guess we have competing Oktoberfests then!

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 16h

“Yes I would quite like to try Oktoberfest.”

“Why, yes, I am a beer lover!”

“Oh, you say you have a special ticket for Oktoberfest beer lovers? Brilliant!”

“I’m sorry, there appears to be some kind of mistake…”

Oktoberfest in Brussels - the Bavarians will be burning their dirndls in the streets!

Screenshot of the ticket menu for an Oktoberfest festival in Brussels, including a “beer lover ticket + 100cl Stella Artois” ticket option

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 21h

😂

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 22h

Ha, my dad is the opposite. His passport says Kieran and his mother pronounces it the English way (KIERan), but my whole life I've only known everyone else to call his kierAWN

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 22h

Strike day = Bike day

Days without public transport running in Brussels so 1) just how many cyclists there are now, and 2) just how inadequate so much of the infrastructure* is in accommodating all these new cyclists.

(*Yes, I'm looking at you, Rue du Trone)

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

This, perhaps? www.instagram.com/p/DO_LH3wEYK0/

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 1d

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 1d

Pintjes winning prizjes!!!

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to wake up to see our (mine and @selkies.bsky.social) wee zine pick up an award (bronze still counts) at the @nagbw.bsky.social last night.

Haven't done much beer writing in the past year, so nice to see some of it recognised by what was no doubt an excellent jury

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Ah sure he/s used to it at this stage, don't let it go to his head

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

me, for the rest of the day

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

A great day for the parish

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, what are we even doing here. Amateur hour

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

I execute the perfect pancake flip and I look around the kitchen to receive the adulation that is due and it's empty. What's the point of having children, I wonder.

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