There are at least three brands of stout made in Cork that are better than that shite. We really need to disengage our national identity from the Diageo corporation

Get out of that damn sun, it’s a grand day for a high stool in a dark, cool pub. Trad, snacks and caesars from 4pm in you know where

Shandon is a wonderful place to live and work but this is still true. Why send tourists up here but not do anything for the place. The tourists wander around scared and wondering what they’re supposed to be looking at. Cork City Council

A drink to Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, one of the great road trip novels

Mighty cleaning up music

Who let that gobshite on the telly?

Twitter is so weird that I have to presume this is a bad parody account. If he’s actually been fantasising about us I feel dirty now and can’t sleep

A great loss but, all the same, he gave us so much, more than enough to be going on with. Unlike…oh never mind. RIP and gracias for the words, all the long pages of beautiful words theguardian.com/world/2022/sep…

I think this is wasp/orangeman behaviour - aggression in the last throes, the angry ones are angrier but there’s less of them. But my experience as an urban-only cyclist is an increasing number of drivers behaving with care and as though they know they are the issue

Donie’s people have been found. He is a little legend and will be much missed by the Paradiso crew after he came on our outing to Kinsale with us

Indulge yourself for a few minutes in Linda’s indulgence. Have never seen this version of Cattle & Cane before

New twitter is very funny, putting these two claims to greatness in 1977 after each other on my timeline. One is the most boring band ever, the other is the Sex Pistols

Cars are the problem, and cars are operated by humans. Slow the f*ck down, car driving people, slow way down to a level where you’re certain someone else won’t die

The usual small bit of water on the quay when it rains causes no disruption irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…

A little teaser!