This fantastic speed boat was on O'Connell St last Wednesday.
I feel that it was there to advertise the Lotto, or perhaps we are going to get ocean racing in Dublin.
Princess Caroline of Monaco married a playboy who loved to race these beasts, he almost bankrupted the principality before he got killed, which brought his lavish lifestyle to an end.
Expensive beasts for sure..
I am cutting back with the taxi work. the house and garden take a few hours out of each day.
It needs to be done and I am cheaper than the bought in help.
For conversation I often in the taxi I might throw in "Where are you going now?"
Job interview seems to come in a lot at present.
Two guys last week from Google were going to Bangalore in India for a wedding
Then "What are you hoping to do?" brought in an unusual answer from a girl today.
She said she hopes to do nursing, she had done a junior nursing course but she had a traumatic experience and had to give it up. "It was a stillborn baby and I wasn't expecting it. I went into shock and had to give it up, next year I will start again, I am much stronger now"
All our lives are like planets spinning and revolving around our suns, some we get close to to have a look at what is going on.
This time next month Blackpool magicians convention will be over.
Just to give you a taste of the North of England sense of humor I will give you this.
A taxi driver picks someone and gets beaten up robbed in Lucan and his taxi hijacked...
Reg,131D9768 Roof sign 24895 Silver Skoda Superb If you see it report it.
So when the guys involved are caught they get a 2 year suspended sentence and laugh at the poor taxi driver on their way out of the court.
Now look at this.
He was caught by the police and the video went viral.
The punks boss called him in and said "Hit the road Jack, you're fired"
Now go to YouTube and see him cry big crocodile tears.
BUT NEVER ONCE DOES HE SAY I AM SO SORRY.
Just a tip for you drivers out there.. CS gas or Pepper spray are illegal, so is a stun gun.
You know your bad shoulder might need that Deep Heat spray from time to time.?
Well cut 3 inches of thick string and run it down from the back of the nozzle.
Take masking tape from the top to the back of the aerosol covering the thick string, a small piece of tape to stop the nozzle turning, now when you take the aerosol into your hand you know instantly which way it is pointing.
Suddenly in an attack you are back in the driving seat.
When you have traveled as many miles as the average taxi driver has you begin to get a 5th sense when something is not right.
Then something else happens and you are even more aware that all is not well.
She lives down beside the bridge at Blackhall Place she is from South America, Bolivia I think.
Many hundreds of people come here from S.America, most do very well but it is so hard to succeed.
It only takes you to meet one toxic person to ruin your entire life.
This young lady is being trafficked into prostitution I believe.
Little things she said! Like one minute phone calls etc.
What can you do?
A few years ago a beautiful young 18 year old Brazilian girl was going to St.Johns Rd. Sandymount, she was innocent and giddy, but as I pulled up at the house and took her bag from the boot she threw her arms around my neck and gave me a big hug.
"Thank you so much, I came here for a casting to become a model, I am so happy"
Nothing could convince her that this not how models are created, "you have to get a portfolio and an agent and even then it is not easy". I told her that I knew a photographer and gave her my number.
I heard nothing back, but I thought about her.
"What if she was your daughter John?" Said the voice in my head So I took the morning off, I rang the Garda HQ no answer. Then I rang Store St.Garda station and I asked was there any department which deals with vice or prostitution. I was told NO and then that the young lady in question should be deported. There was no understanding of the situation at all, I rang 2 other Garda stations, Irishtown and Donnybrook. No luck there either. I took a break and had a brainwave. I rang the woman's rape crisis center, a lady there knew exactly where I was coming from. Ring this number Its a group called Ruhama, their aim is to rescue girls from vice with no blame. After telling my story again to her I got a big thank you. "If only other people paid attention"She said. Please ring this number its "Operation Quest" they are based in Store St.Garda station. The first place I spoke to. Two days later someone from the nerve center of this elite squad rang me up to tell me that there was no St. Johns Rd. in Sandymount.Then they rang me 2 days later on to tell me that there was no house with that number on the street. Then I blew a fuse !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So before you blow a fuse.
Ruhama 01 8360292 Mobile 086 8553853 086 8288539
Now that you know something about it take a look at (click here).
Just to let you know that there people out there ready and able to cheat and rob you.
Here we are into 2016 and its rain rain rain..So glad that I'm at the top of a hill and I don't have to travel.Others are not so fortunate.
One poor girl went to Galway to celebrate the new year and she got into a taxi and asked him to take her home. Where do you live? Celbridge Co.Kildare... and off they went 2 1/2 hours later and €220 she arrived home only to get a call on her mobile asking her where she was???????????????/
She was supposed to be staying in Galway...Not a great start to the year.
1916 to 2016 100 years. Great celebrations are going to take place all over Ireland. For what, 3,000 children living in homeless accommodation, hundreds of families facing eviction from rented homes which have been taken over from the banks. These houses will be sold to the pals of the bankers and then sold on later for a good profit. There are thousands of drug addicts in our city doorways.I won't even go into the health system people with suspected cancers being asked to wait 3 months for tests.
Is this the true legacy of 100 years of self rule?
Count me out of the celebrations please.
For What Died the Sons of Róisín
(By Luke Kelly)
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it fame?
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it fame?
For what flowed Ireland’s blood in rivers,
That began when Brian chased the Dane,
And did not cease nor has not ceased,
With the brave sons of ´16,
For what died the sons of Róisín, was it fame?
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it greed?
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it greed?
Was it greed that drove Wolfe Tone to a paupers death in a cell of cold wet stone?
Will German, French or Dutch inscribe the epitaph of Emmet?
When we have sold enough of Ireland to be but strangers in it.
For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it greed?
To whom do we owe our allegiance today?
To whom do we owe our allegiance today?
To those brave men who fought and died that Róisín live again with pride?
Her sons at home to work and sing,
Her youth to dance and make her valleys ring,
Or the faceless men who for Mark and Dollar,
Betray her to the highest bidder,
To whom do we owe our allegiance today?
For what suffer our patriots today?
For what suffer our patriots today?
They have a language problem, so they say,
How to write “No Trespass” must grieve their heart full sore,
We got rid of one strange language now we are faced with many, many more,
For what suffer our patriots today?
A new member to the €uro its Lithuania and Latvia is in as well.
Here is a great idea if you're taking a month off. A solar powered battery charger
There will be a big festival in Dublin to celebrate the new year click here for details.
The site is not great all I need to know Where? Who is on? and When?
Looking forwards and looking back at this time can waken you up for sure.
John Lennon died 35 years ago..Many of us can remember that shocking moment.
By the way The Beatles are now on Spotify...Strawberry fields forever.
Soon the work will vanish for 3 months.
Many of my older mates head off to Spain to rest. An old guy explained to me that there are bargains to be had at that time of the year. "But don't go out in the sun or there will be no tips when you come back".
This year I have a plan.
Instead of just saying that I am writing a book, I will just finish it off.
All of my 3 sons went to Mount Temple school. The famous school where U2 met.
youngest lad David was in the same class as Jack Doyle the son of Roddy Doyle the creator of the book and film "The Commitments"
We met in the supermarket. "How's the blog going?
"Not too bad I am working on the book, its very hard, writing, correcting and writing all over again." All he said was "Tell me about it" A funny guy to say the least.
We all know that there has to be at least 3 books in it. From the tragic to the comical and on to the farcical.
Today I brought a Brazilian girl to the airport, going home for good. Often customers become friends and it is not a money making job, its a freebie. Brazil is very very wealthy country but it is so corrupt. She told me that one of her friends belongs to a wealthy family and the father groomed and had sex with a young girl. The father was never punished,"my friends brother is a judge and he quashed everything... I said this is so wrong, is there no God? But nothing changed," So many things pass your ear every day, still it is an education..
A giant washing machine wash all the clothes,the kids, the dog and the cat all at once.
An old TV with the works taken out and an and an animated display put in its place.
Not the kind of Christmas lights we like to see
Well at this time the amateur drinkers come out.
A taxi driver dropped off around the Bleedin Horse and then headed for home.
Great! I'm finished now off for a pint before the pubs close he thought.
Just as he started off again two girls just jumped in.
"Two stops Rathfarnham and Dundrum. no long way around and shut your fucking mouth, no talking"Said one of the girls"
So the driver tells them to get out and after much "You HAVE to bring us" they got out before the police were called..
A man gets on to a bus and pays in the machine and the driver doesn't give him his 5c refund ticket.
He calls the driver names and he is then is asked to get off the bus.
NO I WON'T GO !
This time the Garda come and remove him and the bus goes on its way 40 minutes late.
So he is full of rage and engages a solicitor and goes off to court.
Deformation of character !!!
So the judge listens to the saga, perhaps she saw the CCTV footage as well.
Let me explain something to you said the Judge.
Your own actions caused all this friction, you caused the trouble by not getting off the bus when you were asked, so the defamation was of your own making.
YOUR CASE IS DISMISSED AND I AM AWARDING COSTS AGAINST YOU OF €20,000.
Then
My own washing machine stopped, so I had a look, no go.
Off to the man, 36 hours later I get the call.
This is the problem 2x 1c coins stuck in the pump, "That will be €50!"
