Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
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“YOU’VE HEARD OF THE LOCH NESS MONSTER, RIGHT? THE FACT IS THAT THERE ARE DOZENS OF THESE LAKE CREATURES ALL OVER THE WORLD…”
For the last year and a half or so I’ve been doing a Q&A interview each week at the front of the Irish Times Saturday Magazine. This is the only one they’ve ever refused to print. It was with a preacher who was about to address a creationism rally in Lucan. The Irish Times refused to publish it on the grounds that the guy was clearly insane. My position was that of course the guy was insane, that was why I interviewed him in the first place. Sanity prevailed, unfortunately… Read the interview here.
WHO USES THE PHONE BOOK?
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, bingo equipment, choreographers, clairvoyants and detective agencies . . . If you need it, there’s a fair chance you’ll find it in the 2010 Golden Pages, which landed with a dull thud on doorsteps and in hallways around the capital early last month. Read the rest of this article here.
I WON’T SHARE YOU (1987)
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT MCAWESOME!!!” #2
“OFF THE RECORD, O’HANLON CAME ABOUT AS CLOSE AS HE COULD TO LETTING ME KNOW THAT HE FELT THE SAME WAY…”
THERE’S NO GETTING around it. Not when you speak to him on the phone. Certainly not when you sit down with him in person. Eleven years have passed since he hung up the old dog collar, and the actor’s hair is now showing flecks of grey. But to fans of Father Ted , the much-beloved sitcom on which he made his name, the two are indivisible: Ardal O’Hanlon and Dougal Maguire. Dougal Maguire and Ardal O’Hanlon. Read the rest of this article here.
I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN (1964)*
PRESIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
Two American presidents caught talking off the record this evening. What George W. Bush really thinks about John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin here. What Barack Obama really thinks of Kanye West here. And how Bill Clinton wanted Al Gore to make Hillary his 2000 running mate here.
RIGHT, SO I’M IN LAS VEGAS…
And I’m losing big time on the tables… Read the rest of this article.
THIS IS FUNNY
A priest, a rapist and a paedophile walk into a bar. Read the rest of this entry »
SERENA WILLIAMS FAN CHECK APPLICATION VIRUS
Heady times… EoinButler.com is currently experiencing an unprecidented surge in popularity, albeit from a source slightly outside of my target demographic. So what’s wooing the masses? Is it my geographical nous? Those racy cheerleader upskirts? Or that rollercoaster thread in which Darragh and I debated the artistic merits of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s Step Brothers movie?
Well no, quite frankly. It isn’t. Read the rest of this entry »