Tales Of The Gurrier

O’Connell Street 3 Originally uploaded by Gurrier. From www.indymedia.ie. Click here for the full set of pictures on indymedia (scroll down all the way)

O’Connell Street 2 Originally uploaded by Gurrier. From www.indymedia.ie

Nassau Street 2 Originally uploaded by Gurrier. From indymedia.ie

Ladies and gentlemen I bid you all a tardy welcome to 2006. I hope the proceeding twelve months will find you all in good spirits and genial temperament. For myself I will be providing you with more of the fabulous and outrageous entertainments you have come to enjoy here and I hope they will not [...]

Dublin airport, charnel house of the doomed. Great plastic Rudolphs looming out of the throngs dressed in crash helmets and jet packs. Penguins in uniform drunk on brandy and this grinning anthropomorphic Christmas Tree clutching a yellow Star of David and performing Nazi salutes to new arrivals. The end times are coming, flee into the [...]

This is what is referred to in my family as a ‘Fagan Job’ named after my grandmothers unique approach to DIY. A Fagan job is any repair or fix applied to an object that invariably begins with a hammer and a nail and possibly a ‘Fagan Screwdriver’ pictured here on the right. This gentleman or [...]

They are burning people on Grafton street right now.

Driving through the filthy city as is my cross to bear sensing the approaching Christmas in the air lingering out there on the edges waiting for me. A pyschic head mashing juggernaut coming down your brain-chimney like a bastard Jesus screaming for presents. Drunk on pressie buyer’s remorse and whiskey pies the fuckers are all [...]