Tales Of The Gurrier

The message scrawled on the door reads:
‘Now my finger is dirty’
and below,
‘So’s your mot‘
(Searching for a link for Mot, I came upon this lovely gem: ‘A Mouth like a Malahide cod’ - someone who never shuts up.)

The Dublin street bin. Harbinger of decay, reliquary of unholy debris. Other countries may have trash cans, litter receptacles, garbage chutes, cleansing units. Dublin has caliginous black bins. Black as the darkest night of the soul, repositories of taint and corruption. Bursting through the uneven streetscape like the broken rotten tooth stumps of ancient giants. [...]

I almost caught one today.
The family home is in the south inner city. In twenty five years there it has exposed me to many of the seedier sides of Dublin life. Countless breaks ins, handbag snatches, muggings, car thefts, home invasions, drug addicts, drug dealers, escaped convicts, murderers on the run, brothels, prostitutes, pimps, pet [...]

I saw a woman doing a poo in the street the other day. At the corner of Arnott and Heytesbury street to be exact. As I drove past I saw her there; pooing away to her hearts content. She didn’t mind me and I didn’t mind her. Me, as I was locked safely in my [...]

It was hot, too damn hot. By 11am the booze had run out, a bad start to the day. The hovel was a sweltering pigsty and The Gin Lady was in a foul mood.
‘Get me a drink Paddy. I need a fucking drink just to look at you’.
It was too much. I had to [...]

It has been said the greatest writers in the history of our benighted little nation have not found respite in the stony soil of their forefathers but have been ridiculed and lampooned about the place until forced into exile. Only when clasped to the bosom of a foreign nation were their talents then recognised by [...]

Well holy God. You spend years writing about dirty bollixes and fucking bastards and gutting Ben Affleck with fish knives and devouring his kidneys, and not a peep from anyone. About dragging Michael Flatley through the streets and Samantha Mumba’s knickers. Vin Diesels wall of pants admittedly caused a bit of a stir, collecting the [...]

Indymedia have been doing sterling work reporting on the riot and its aftermath. This report examines in detail some of the issues I wrote about in my previous post.
The people who took part in the rioting were largely drawn from the urban poor, mostly disenfranchised young men from impoverished estates around Dublin, people who normally [...]