http://www.eoinbutler.com Mayoman of the Year Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:13:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IN THE MUDDY SLUMS OF JUBA, the people are preparing for a party. By 11pm, tens of thousands of them have poured out onto the streets: cheering, honking car horns and waving the flag of their new country, as well as those of the US, Norway and Israel. At the ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/the-rebel-priest-2/ #5 David Norris would make a terrible, terrible president (June 10th) Just because you like someone, and just because their election would generate positive press coverage for your country the world over, it does not make them that person a good - or even remotely suitable - candidate for high office. ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/clicking-along-the-ledge-3/ IN THE MUDDY SLUMS OF JUBA, the people are preparing for a party. By 11pm, tens of thousands of them have poured out onto the streets: cheering, honking car horns and waving the flag of their new country, as well as those of the US, Norway and Israel. At the ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/features/the-rebel-priest/ The leaves run with the cars The cars run to the town Don’t expect the night time it will only let you down Walk on Walsh’s hill Look up at the stars The town is full of lights and there are people in the bars The nights are made of nothing And the mornings are so ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/on-walshs-hill/ ...and seasonal. David Sedaris' "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall'. It was originally published in Esquire Magazine http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/this-is-funny-109/ In July 2011, photographer Ross McDonnell and I visited the city of Juba in East Africa to witness independence celebrations for the newly sovereign state of South Sudan. It was a short enough trip. We left the day after I saw Mayo beat Galway in Castlebar. And I was home ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/a-ballyhaunis-man-abroad/ The recent death of my father was undoubtedly the least funny event of my entire life. It came as a savage shock to me, like a stranger approaching me on the street and punching me in the face. Read the rest of this article here. http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/the-top-5-funniest-things-people-said-to-me-when-my-father-died/ “Explain it to me like I’m six years old” is Denzel Washington’s mantra in the film Philadelphia. It could just as easily serve as my motto in the kitchen. On a good day, I’m capable of boiling a potato. But that’s about as Jamie Oliver as it gets around here. ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/there-are-about-a-hundred-of-them-and-they-keep-wobbling-around-on-the-chopping-board/ THE POLISH GIRL with the tea trolley is trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. A tall, athletic young man in a tight-fitting black T-shirt is standing in the centre of Room 202. His hair is meticulously tousled and a tacky necklace pendant bobbles on his chest. ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/how-to-get-the-girl-3/ New figures published this week show this magazine's circulation holding steady at 36,898, down slightly on 36,938 last quarter. But when seasonal and other miscellaneous factors are allowed for, that amounts to an impressive 5,924,094 readers per month – an exceptionally strong performance in a country of just over four ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/im-loving-these-numbers-2/