Category Archives: Steve

The Global recession and its affects on the Intergluteal Cleft

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Steve McDonagh

It is a sad indictment of the state we find ourselves living in that the cut backs and fiscal penny pinching has reached such a proportion that it has reached into the very private inner sanctum of silent contemplation that … Continue reading →

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Of Public Meetings and engaging with the powers that be.

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Steve McDonagh

Tonight I totally forgot that Flowerfield Arts Center pottery class was deferred by a week because of the launch of the NW200 2013 events program. However I noticed while hovering around reception that there was a public meeting being held … Continue reading →

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Ponderings on the value we put on “things”

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

Tis Sunday a day of rest and reverie and as such that is what I am doing with the help of Faure’s Requiem – a great piece for a Sunday morning at the end of a bad week. The week … Continue reading →

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Norn Iron, Flegs, Fleg Poles, Rioting and their importance

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

I realise that with all the twitter and FB guff that has been around since the #fleg debacle and the ripples of spleen, golf balls, paint bombs and broken glass, some people not from “Norn Iron” will be confused as … Continue reading →

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My evening with Sanal Edamaruku, Irish Atheism, the whore of Ballymena and a career change

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

Gentle reader, here I sit in the kitchen of Casa McDonagh typing this post and sipping a cup of coffee in quiet contemplation prior to retiring for the night after a most interesting evening. I was at a special meeting … Continue reading →

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The dangers of Demons and paying the Visa Bill

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

…an odd thing happened yesterday. I had to go into town at dinner time to pay the Visa bill and other deeply boring chores. As I turned the corner into the Diamond (or town square if you are not from … Continue reading →

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00:30 heavy metal, beer and an the unbearable lightness of tolerating scum bucketery

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

Here I sit, cold beer in a glass, Disturbed’s “Indestructible” loosening the wax in my ears whilst I review the week just past. A week in which my normal bonhomie was stretched to breaking point and beyond by the levels … Continue reading →

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Orangefest – same old prostitute prettied up in a posh frock.

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

Currently here in Northern Ireland there is a move afoot to make the 12th of July more of a celebration, a family-friendly holiday and a more palatable occasion. In fact the week before the 12th July and the 12th itself … Continue reading →

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Oh Joy unbounded tis the season to be grumpy!

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

Gentle readers all. It has been a while since I waxed lyrically in gloriously bad grammar and I were I 20 years younger I would apologize for both but sod it I was busy doing stuff that kinda got in … Continue reading →

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Of Munich, Good Craic, James Joyce and spacetime

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Steve McDonagh

It is that time on night when the gravitational effects of beer, Commissario Salvo Montalbano and a packet of Tayto cheese and onion crisps approach the Blogging event horizon and who am I to mess about with the fundaments of … Continue reading →

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