Cupid Stunt

Seeing as Brian Cowen doesn’t like the fact that RTE reported on the wonderful portraits of him that found their way into the National Gallery and Royal Hibernian Academy, I thought I would make it a bit easier for people to send the wonderful paintings to their friends.

I made a Facebook gift app

It’s a shit one, it took all of 30 seconds to make, but… here you go…

Send your friends a Brian Cowen portrait

I left Ireland on September 29th 2006. Cork still had a hurling team (beaten by Kilkenny by 3 points in the All Ireland Final). Europe won the Ryder Cup at the K Club. Arsenal could still finish in the top 4 (just) and Bertie Ahern was still not remembering whether it was sterling, euro or dollars.

I had planned well in advance to have my last Guinness at the departure lounge bar at Shannon Airport. When I got there it was 2 deep with American tourists trying to catch the single barman’s attention. I gave up after 20 minutes and had my last ‘proper’ Guinness at Heathrow.

Anyways. Look what ye have done to the country since then.

I’m coming back to sort things out. I’ll be returning to the alma mater in June for 3 weeks.

Expect fire, brimstone, and the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol. Well… when in Rome… (and Limerick)

I’ll be flying back on an Airbus A380.

I believe it looks something like this

airbus a380

I’ll have a lot of work to do.