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On Saturday afternoon last, Nicholas, Grace and I took to the airwaves of DundalkFM100 – all three of us are volunteers and trainees with our local community radio station.

..." Er Bert, this guy won't haggle"... Is of course a related line from the same scene in 'The Life of Brian". That specific Brian being the central messiah figure and the subject of a case of mistaken identity. As opposed to The Irish Brian, former Minister for Finance during the boom, head of the country as it bust and head case of identified mistakes.

closed canvas under oil

nature's page screened within mind

greed destroys spiritual ecosystems

showing near you

disasters aggression exploitation war

our world becoming A B movie

where those who what and how

as we can know

scramble for power position privilege

money market dynamics

putrid economic paper pandemics

write, make poems, paintings and pray

that the minds of the world will open today

Those who express a desire to begin praying but don’t know where to start are told: “Pray how you can pray not how you can’t.” Advice perhaps suggesting you don’t let perception of convention(s) or expectation, deter you from natural intuition or self directed spiritual exploration, essentially don’t allow prior rationalization to stop you before you can get your own personal flow started. Something creatively terminal I can fall foul of … usually because a busy family life makes me prioritize other things ahead of my own selfish concerns.

As I said I hope no one was hurt.... the sign obviously prohibits petrol... or is that parking ?

Volcanoes might be hurling ash into the air in Iceland. In the border town of Dundalk They are hurling Petrol bombs at a legal *ash shop.

As my friends on Facebook already know, for reason's related to my middle son Christian and his impending footaballa trip to Italy with Seatown FC on Thursday Next April 1st, I had to, by whatever means available, find out about the status of his passport application. Submitted via passport express on March 5th. That whatever means, meant going there on shank's mare.

"Dis Way Dante Tru Passport Purgatory" Says Virgil

(based on this image from the tate)