Humour & Fiction
At around seven I dropped the transparent little dude. Placed him on my tongue and gave myself away. Pretty far out if you ask me. Then I wait and wait for him to take me on a journey, to find deeper understandings and perceptions. I want to see everything man, that’d be the bomb. Sharon…
In the archaeological department of NUIG, it was believed that you had not truly earned your stripes as a field archaeologist until you had had at least one near-death experience whilst on a dig. Some senior staff members had lived long enough to have had several. Brendan Herlihy, a tenured lecturer in environmental archaeology, sported…
Tanya Kearney strides into the lobby of The Shelbourne Hotel, clearly alight with all the confidence and prestige that becoming an almost overnight op-ed sensation brings. She greets me, and immediately I witness the quick, impulsive opinion-offering on which she has built her wildly successful career. “Opinion: lose the coat,” she tells me. I thank…
Two Mountjoy prisoners have made history as winners of the Amnesty International/SVP Jailbreak 2017. The winners, John Fitzpatrick (27, convicted of fraud in 2012) and Tom McDermott (29, convicted of armed robbery in 2014), say that they are “over the moon” with their victory. The two managed to reach Location X, which was revealed to…
Hours of work to no avail, Searching for something that can’t be found, Looking through those wooden splintered shelves of the old bookshop, That used to bring the light of imagination to my eyes. Now only dull matter remains, Sluggishly guiding my weakening body, Through the mist of the early morning, Creeping into my brain…
Rat! A rat! That unseelie presence that lingered at the margins Of crepe-lined classrooms in a Douglas suburb. We were warned against the black boxes That squatted in yard-corners, But no shape broke the pastel peace for weeks on end. Oh, but the day you showed your face Was well timed, my boy – No…
The beach was a fairly small one, and the village built around it – the village where I grew up – was not much bigger, so I suppose it was a pretty big deal when everybody woke up and found… you know, found it washed up that day. I mean, it took up most of…
When I was a kid, and even as I grew up, I always had a hard time standing up for myself. And I don’t mean physically, I mean having an opinion and sticking to it. Whether it’s because I had very convincing friends, because I was too anxious to lose them or whether I was…
Local man and UCC student Diarmuid Lyons, 20, has been busy explaining the concept of ‘mansplaining’ to his female classmates this week. Nicole O’Leary, 19, a sociology student who has first-hand experience of mansplaining, described the phenomenon in a statement to the press. “Mansplaining is basically when a man explains something to a woman in…
I stress-craft. Some people smoke, some people go for a run – I craft. We all have our vices. There’s just something satisfying about stabbing a crochet hook through a ball of wool when you ought to be worrying about college or money or relationships or the rift in the British branch of the Labour…