John, my mistake. You remember Ronan O'Sullivan, his friend? My cousin.

Btw, I love your work and greatly admire your talent.

Grá agus síocháin!

Jeez, can you just be nice and not always have to prove yourself - you already have. Take a breath.

Did you know we've met? I've been in your house in Drumcondra. Ur bro Pat was in college in Bolton Street when I knew him.

Did you write the lyrics? No, it's traditional.

Did you write the music in a vacuum? No, the notes on the beat pretty-much match the traditional.

Is your version different and original? Absolutely! And I love it.

I'm not trying to be a shit, but give a nod to acknowledge tradition, that's all.

Ah now Michael, I was singing along to Clannad's version of it in 1977. Granted, your tempo and arrangement is quite different but the majority of the lyrics and basics of the tune are unchanged from when the seaweed gatherers of Annagassan first composed it.

FrisBríde.

Imagine if they gave absolute power over the area to three random mothers, say, one from Dublin, one from Lagos and one from Kabul.

The resultant peace would last for centuries.

Keep war-mongers out of peace talks.

I went looking if it existed in Irish and found 'giúsach', pretty close. Our heritage website duchas.ie has a few entries, but just had to stop and admire this stunning handwriting!

Sunday? There was "holy hour" every day of the week before 1988 in Dublin.

Yeah, as I said, there's nothing to worry about. Strange that the Danes are worried at all about another NATO member eyeing up their dependency.

Tell Denmark they've nothing to worry about with Greenland so.

Excuse my ignorance of US wiring regulations - I'm Irish, but, don't you need a different outlet configuration for 240V? Plugging any 'typical' appliance expecting 110V into 240V would be chaos.

You mean there's usually 224V on a US standard power outlet?

Looks to me like the person on call to flick the circuit breaker in Sallins had a few and was told to sleep it off until 4:00 and try again. That's at least 4000 people without light or heat due to (A) a ridiculously over-burdened line and (B) taking the on-call payment without responsibility.

Happy New Year Colin. Looking forward to more beautiful shots of Ellan Vannin in 2026.

Machair Aignish nan laoigh 's nam bo.

It should be twinned with Carrickfinn in Donegal. Both are at the end of an isthmus called Braighe/Braade, both have an airport and are largely machair.

The time is 23:22. The current temperature at 54.004, -6.523 (Dundalk, Ireland) is 5°C. The wind is 11km/h at heading 165.

Your Dundalk is named after my Dundalk because it had a railway!