Financial Fascists.
Trying to save a penny here and there is most folk’s way of managing and saving for a rainy day. However in today’s society, it can be trickier than it first appears.I try to pay with cash nowadays and stay away from using debit and credit cards for obvious reasons.But it is galling to walk into my local arts and craft shop to make a minor purchase only to be told that the store has a minimum purchase policy. Currently this store insists that customers spend at least £5.00 when paying by debit card. Other convenience shops I frequent set their minimum limit at £10.00!This is nothing more than blackmail. Faceless financial fascists dictating individual sto

When Tiger Gave 'em A Rest.
A few years ago Tiger Woods played a couple of rounds of golf in Ireland, and one evening after a round at a local course, his car broke down and he had to hitch-hike back to his hotel. A passing farmer stopped and picked him up. Not knowing who Tiger was, nor indeed, anything about golf, the farmer started a friendly conversation with the American legend. Soon the talk turned to cars and Tiger told the Irishman about the car he drove in the States and how comfortable it was and the way it was easy on his legs and arms because of power steering, automatic transmission, cruise control etc. After a while the conversation trailed off and Tiger began to relax. He took a few golf

Graduating With Honours.
In recent years Ireland became a trendy venue for groups of young English people to visit for the weekend. Flights had become dirt-cheap, the natives were friendly and Dublin had wall-to-wall pubs. Stag partiers could slope through the streets and throw up without a care in the world and not worry about a Bobbie sneaking up behind them yelling “you’re nicked me son”. Soon a weekend in Temple Bar was not the same if you didn’t trip over a comatose limey in the gutter or see one tied naked to a lamppost with his genitals lathered in industrial soap.The trend then began to spread, and just recently I read about a court case in Cork from a few years back, when two yobs were ar