[This is a sequel to the Diary of a Dublin Sex Man column, run in Piranha 2008. You can check the first column out here]. Monday 10 PM Got a voice mail from the Rotunda. Letting me go- something about the bad publicity. Fuming!. Caught half an episode of Coupling on UK Gold. Three stars, [...]
Like most folks who spent even a tenth of a second considering their post college job prospects, Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus has never read a Victorian novel. He’s always meant to of course. He’s seen the film of Oliver Twist, and some of the better Jane Brontë period dramas on BBC 2. He quite enjoys the [...]
Given that many of our staff and readers will doubtless be serving lengthy prison terms in the near future, for non payment of 100 thousand euro blasphemy fines, this week Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus thought it best to address the problems of those members of his infinite congregation serving, or preparing soon to serve at his [...]
O’Irish talk show host Ryan Tubridy has begun a campaign to end a centuries-old practice known as the ‘cutting of the rose’. The procedure – still performed today across North Africa and parts of the Middle East – involves carefully safeguarding a little girl’s chastity for her husband, and has few if any known side [...]
I am Guinevere to her Lancelot, my Arthur does not know how true love is. I flopped down on the sofa, cushions and silk. Last week, Binky and I had flooded the valley with champagne, all was sog. But still, our love was doomed. And so, be-feathered and jaded I slept and dreamed of a [...]
There is much a man can live without. Shelter, friends, dignity. But, of the few true necessities, tea is the greatest.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience. Here in Trinity College Dublin this yearning is sated in the various canteens in which you will find a self service area with a boiler, a stack [...]
MULLIGANS Pithy hovel treasure trove for faces old. Mulligans provides a warmly glimpse into James Joyce’s directory Ulysses, where rich old mahogany and pointless men sit to wonder how it all slipped away. Rating: Two Harps and a tug. CAFÉENSEINE As mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kafka Ennui reveals itself to be an overdressed French [...]
Photo by Danny McL , Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic Literally millions of children are killed or mortally wounded on Ireland’s roads each year. Often, in a tragic twist of irony, by those who were once children themselves. A new report by the Irish Society of the Prevention of Death, Cruelty and Other Such Misfortunes; [...]
* Experience the 3D thrill ride of a life time ‘from farm to market’ – gasp as state of the art misters douse you in meaty juices – an unforgettable meatsperience * Try your luck at our carnival games – lamb to the slaughter – can you bolt the brain first time? – pig snout [...]
Also Out This season!!! The aeroplane is cramped, foul smelling and your still aching from the cavity search. But none of that matters, because you’re reading the stunning new book about growing up unloved. Ben’s latest autobiography – ‘They broke me in the cellar’, is out now. Critics are calling it ‘an unprecedented journey into [...]