Posts by Poraic Cahill
Want for Something
£18,000 is the amount Christina Estrada requires to make her ends meet on a daily basis. It was reported in the Times newspaper the other day that Christina has taken her ex-husband Dr. Walid Juffali (a sixty-one year reputed Saudi Billionaire) to court to pay for her basic needs which she estimates...
All Shapes & Sizes
After reading about the plight of Rebekah Sutcliffe recently (She has been suspended from her job as Assistant Chief Constable for Greater Manchester Police after claims she had a row with a fellow female colleague in a hotel bar over whose breasts were more attractive. She had been at a three-day conference...
Asking for it!
The Monday morning before last, I was seated at my desk in work with a cuppa tea counting the minutes down till I finished work (think I’d 120 of them to go, at the time) when my Boss (Eoghan) came through the door with a smile on his face. He sat down and relaid an interesting tale that put that...
Giving Chase
Giving Chase
As reactions to being abandoned go, I came across a crackerjack of a one, a few weeks back. It concerned an incident involving a Mrs Susan Brown, 65, from Fontmell Magna, Dorset. She had been on a four-week cruise of the West Indies with her husband. With a few days left of the cruise,...
Cause a Commotion
Cause a Commotion
Last Saturday week just gone I was in a boarding queue (No.3; Non/Priority) at Terminal One, Dublin airport, with six friends waiting to get on a Ryanair plane. We were heading to the Basque country, a place I always enjoy visiting for its relaxed way of life, beautiful beaches, cheap...
Wishful Thinking
Wishful Thinking
Apologies to the two readers of this column for not producing anything since November. My reason for being out of circulation had to do with writing a play for work (in case you thought I carked it or more likely was sacked). Anyhow not much has changed in the life of this correspondent...
Law and Disorder
There is only one occasion this correspondent can recollect being openly discriminated against in the nearly two score years of being privately discriminated against (by girls in nightclubs, previous employers in work, etc….). The incident occurred on a train journey from Liverpool Street to Chelmsford,...
Safe Hands
Safe Hands
This writing lark can be a tough job, especially when you have nothing to write about. Last week your correspondent found himself in such a story-less state and told his colleague Jackie Spain of his predicament. She informed this correspondent of a story she’d heard of ten wheel-barrows...
Separate Ways
As daft entitlements go, your correspondent came across a doozy recently while reading a story concerning a ruling made by the High Court of Madras, India in relation to a disagreement between a divorced couple over maintenance.
To fill you (reader) in, a divorced women had argued that she wished...
Pulling Power
Pulling Power
Although having no memory of it, this correspondent must have enjoyed his first taste of chocolate, as the sight of them in shops & petrol stations nowadays stimulates an urge to consume them. The same was true, years later for tasting Bulmers, although your correspondent does remember...
Unruffle Feathers
This correspondent has encountered a few sufferers of verbals (abuse) from time spent in the local. The poor unfortunates come into the boozer, order a drink, and unburden themselves of the volleys received from their missus/partners through-out the week.They gain some relief for a brief period, but...
