Category: Opinion
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Things Not To Do After The Dentist
Basically, anything that involves being in a public place, where your chances of looking like an eejit are greatly increased. THERE ARE GOOD ideas and there are bad ideas. And if you know me at all, you will know which of the two I am prone to. When given a choice, I will almost always…
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Dinner, dejection, and jumpers at the disco
A night out in the 80s was not for the faint of heart. BY NOW YOU WILL HAVE read our statement on the Thurles bypass, and like all sound-minded people, you will have concluded that we are absolutely right, as usual. But you might also find that you have a lingering question concerning an important…
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Thurles Bypass: Our View
You might think the bypass is good news. But you might be wrong. THE NEWS THIS WEEK concerning the bypass for Thurles has been broadly welcomed, and public representatives have been falling over themselves in their efforts to take the credit. Indeed, there are unconfirmed reports that one local official has been hospitalised with a…
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The Culchie Spectrum: A Definitive Guide
What is a culchie, and can he function safely in civilised society? IN THE WAKE OF A recent article here on The Times, it was suggested quite strongly to me that I am anti-culchie. That I am in fact a culchiephobe, a racist, an intolerant bigot who is a clear and present danger to the…
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Smokey and the man called Horse
Cops, alligators, dodgy Dodges, and the terror of a trip to the swamp. It’s all fun and games when you get behind the wheel in the South. WE HAVE A SAYING HERE in Tipperary: If you can drive in Thurles, you can drive anywhere. Which is mostly true. Certainly it is true in the sense…
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