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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • The Croquet Lawn – Flann O’Brady Hastings

    There exists a certain character that I, in my capacities as a scientist, and you The Simple Students of Ireland, are well acquainted with. Heading home to Laois, Maynooth or Skibbereen on the Bus Eireann, and not too fancy for it, thank you very much, one regularly encounters this nefarious individual. Indeed it must be… Read more

  • That Dirty Old Bastard Joyce

    Ah James Joyce, grandfather of modernism and Ireland’s leading literary figure. He of Ulysses, Dubliners, Finnegan’s Wake, and other books you’ll never read. You are perhaps familiar with Joyce’s literary interest in the rude physicality of the human form, and the voracious lasciviousness of man’s libidinous urges, but were you aware of the tendency towards… Read more

  • Election Special: Top Five Smug Mugs

    Hot on the heels of the paper of record’s sterling electoral journalism, and just in time for the tail end of today’s Irish local elections, we here at Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus have compiled a comprehensive list of the five smarmiest candidates standing in the local, European and national by-elections. Certain threads run through the posters… Read more

  • Ryanair’s Dick of a Boss at it Again!

    Shock today as Michael O’Leary announces plans to charge passengers for actually flying to their destinations. Controversial boom time poster child O’Leary has been rapped in the past for his airline’s bullying staff, it’s tight arsed baggage fees, and it’s crude and bawdy adverts – but the new plan, which sets a price for the… Read more

  • Jesus Advocates: Direct Democracy

    Jesus Advocates: Direct Democracy

    Something interesting is going on over at United Minds.ie. Ross O’Mullane, a candidate with no previous political experience, is running in the Dublin South constituency on a direct democracy ticket. With only two days to the June 5th elections, a candidate is standing in an Irish by election, on a platform radically opposed to representative… Read more

  • Don’t Feed The Trolls No 1. – ‘Two little stickboys’

    Ah, the genius of IMDB, or to be more specific, the ingenius trolling which goes on on the fora of the world famous film database. Everybody loves a good troll, a subtle, ideally undetectably ironic, undermining of the principles of sanity and civil discourse, for the purposes of cruel entertainment. A good troll does not… Read more