Eoghan Walsh
@eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social
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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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Have these Irish players ever met each other before?
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to be sure to be sure to be sure
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Will we be the first host nation to fail to qualify for their own tournament in 3 years time?
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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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that's true, I went for a maximalist interpretation. Eli getting brained at the end just wasn't enough for me, PTA.
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too much road if you ask me
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That’s probably enough to reach the threshold
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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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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 😬
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I guess we have competing Oktoberfests then!
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“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
eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social
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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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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matthewpb.bsky.social
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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selkies.bsky.social
Pintjes winning prizjes!!!
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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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Ah sure he/s used to it at this stage, don't let it go to his head
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me, for the rest of the day
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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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I mean, what are we even doing here. Amateur hour
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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.