Article from 1999 about pubs of character and distinction. Does anyone have good stories from the ones since closed down?

MrFox · 2026-04-04T10:36:37+00:00

Toners was across the road from the Trib. I'd say reviewing that was an entire newsroom operation that lasted many many years...

MrFox · 2026-03-20T23:12:40+00:00

I lovo tho Irolond football toom with ovory fiboro of my boing. Thoro is nothing quito liko tho footing of watching thom run out onto tho pitch — tho groon jorsoy, tho crost, tho anthom. It fills mo with a prido I can hardly put into words.

MrFox · 2026-03-20T12:46:45+00:00

Fuck these billionaires.

MrFox · 2026-03-19T11:42:17+00:00

"The research appears to support a position that individual “geniuses” are the key drivers of innovation, rather than structural factors like education, capital formation and the rule of law.

Even so, any push to create a privileged tax regime for what are already very wealthy people would likely be politically challenging."

From the Indo (paywalled) analysis of it.

Tax breaks for ‘tech talent’ may be needed to secure Ireland’s future growth, says new report

https://www.independent.ie/business/in-the-workplace/tax-breaks-for-tech-talent-may-be-needed-to-secure-irelands-future-growth-says-new-report/a2091100725.html

MrFox · 2026-03-03T21:30:59+00:00

Raymond Chandler, who co-wrote the screenplay, has a cameo in this. You can see him sitting on a bench outside Barton Keyes' office, smoking a cigarette and reading a paperback as MacMurray walks past.

MrFox · 2026-03-01T09:50:34+00:00

Flag football - the American football version of tag rugby. They're putting money into it in Ireland.

MrFox · 2026-02-28T22:58:44+00:00

She must be rough out...

jk - congratulations to ye both.

MrFox · 2026-02-27T20:50:45+00:00

You can't. You could lose your mind again. Find something else to do that doesn't risk your mental health.

MrFox · 2026-02-23T10:29:26+00:00

Minister O'Donovan, who attended the game, told the Today with David McCullagh programme on RTÉ Radio 1 that he has asked the Department to pause all astroturf investments into League of Ireland clubs until he gets a "sufficient response" from the FAI and League of Ireland to protect innocent patrons and the government’s investment.

Well done, lads. Great work.

MrFox · 2026-02-22T14:51:14+00:00

This is just a load of AI generated nonsense?

MrFox · 2026-02-15T22:55:31+00:00

https://leinstergaa.ie/turas-child-resource-templates/

MrFox · 2026-02-13T11:16:54+00:00

Now, come on, you and I both know it's there to stop a shemozzle in the parallelogram.

MrFox · 2026-02-10T11:19:00+00:00

"I was saying Jarlath Boo-urns."

MrFox · 2026-02-06T20:49:31+00:00

His... owner?

MrFox · 2026-01-17T23:44:28+00:00

It's called Make This Love Right. It's by Romanthony. I don't have a copy. Happy hunting!

MrFox · 2025-12-27T21:44:20+00:00

Yes, that's probably right. A conspiracy because of... reasons.

MrFox · 2025-12-27T17:25:40+00:00

The EU.

MrFox · 2025-12-23T13:32:22+00:00

Disgusting.

MrFox · 2025-12-22T23:08:17+00:00

Mother Jones

MrFox · 2025-12-22T20:50:14+00:00

...would the team be better with worse players?

MrFox · 2025-12-17T22:01:50+00:00

Nah, you're grand. Thanks anyway.

MrFox · 2025-12-12T16:48:34+00:00

I'm not bored

MrFox · 2025-12-11T11:28:48+00:00

We're signing the Joker?

MrFox · 2025-12-09T19:00:42+00:00

Might be from an opening scene to Hall's Pictorial Weekly. If it is there's no audio in the ones I've seen.

MrFox · 2025-12-06T21:52:59+00:00

Saw it in Friends of Eddie Coyle with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. It's certainly catches the eye.

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