Forty Shades of Green: Ireland’s answer to Fifty Shades of Gray

Spud Hughes is over-excited. It seems the author of Fifty Shades of Gray is married to a man from Newry, Co. Down, Spud’s home town. Spud is sure that E.L. James picked up her filthy habits from her husband, and so he is trumpeting the border town of Newry as the love capital of the Western World. “At

The definitive list of everything that’s great about Northern Ireland

The Crone has been accused of hating on her homeland because of her recent bitter words about the province that gave the world Iris Robinson, the Titanic and DeLorean cars. In fact, she is very proud of her Northern Irish heritage and here lists 50 or so things that are unique to the six counties and which

Better to be talked about…no matter what they say

The Crone knows that, if she is to write about world affairs, she really ought to be writing about Haiti, at least so you believe she is a decent human being with her heart in the right place and her priorities completely straight. But honestly, there’ll be time to help Haiti and there’s an argument

Iris: Motes, beams and what goes on behind mirrored sunglasses.

The Blarney Crone was once an ace girl reporter for a program called Spotlight on the BBC in Northern Ireland. Actually, that’s not true. She was a barely adequate girl reporter on the aforementioned program and certainly came nowhere near breaking a story like the one sprung by Spotlight this week. The program revealed that

It’s the lack of support that rankles

It’s the lack of support that rankles. The Crone was in work this morning before 8am. She didn’t leave until after 7pm and all day long she was concerned with sales plans, and curriculum development and personnel management and other time consuming issues. As she shut down her computer, she checked her facebook page which