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Rasher had a perplexed look about him. Life was clearly throwing him a ball that was drifting away from his fingers. JP had now noted this a few times in the bar mirror’s reflection. He could see Rasher if he angled his view towards the mirror between the ‘Bushmills’ and the ‘Jameson’. Rasher’s knitted browContinue reading “CULTURAL APPROPRIATION”

JP and Mono were sitting at the bar counter in contemplative mood. Nursing their pints. Staring at the mirror behind the bar counter. Well, staring into the middle distance anyway. It was a quiet midweek night and there were very little background pub noises to deflect their thoughts. Donleavy was propped up against his sideContinue reading “Social Conscience”

A Monday night in Donleavy’s. Quiet. Probably no more than a dozen people in the entire pub. The three lads were lined up on their stools in their usual habitat. Someone really should photograph this or paint it for posterity. JP in the middle of the three staring into the bar counter mirror. Rasher lookingContinue reading “Bounce Theory”

It was a Tuesday night in Donleavy’s. The place was empty. You could hear yourself swallowing your pint. Every step that Donleavy took behind the long counter echoed off the ceiling.  To say business was slow was a little like saying snails weren’t built for speed. At one stage Donleavy turned off the lights inContinue reading “Martha’s Vineyard Ghetto”

Saturday night in Donleavy’s. The place was heaving. At this stage I’m sure you’ve gleaned that Donleavy’s is not your ‘run of the mill’ pub. Donleavy’s is special. Not too many places these days with no TVs, no pipe music, no juke box, no vending machines, no pool table, no dart board, no floor service,Continue reading “Mind your Yoga”

It was a quiet midweek night in Donleavy’s pub. Donleavy has his ass propped up against the cash register. He had got tired shining glasses and was now highly engaged in extracting a particularly uncooperative particle from his nose. The three lads – JP, Mono and Rasher – were nursing their pints. At this momentContinue reading “HALIBUT GOOD ENOUGH FOR JEHOVAH”

The three sat on their stools at their end of the bar. JP, Mono and Rasher. It was as if they had a lease on those particular stools. It was as if time stood still or déjà vu perpetually cycled. On a few occasions they had arrived, and their stools were in use. This usuallyContinue reading “Hibernia for never.”

It was going to be a very different Thursday night in Donleavy’s bar. Some of the natural order of conversation would be turned on its head. “I’m tellin’ ya. I always said it. There was somethin’ creepy ‘bout that Jackson fella. I said it. I said it again. But did ya listen to me. AhContinue reading “DON’T EVER MEET YOUR HEROES”

Another quiet Thursday night in Donleavy’s. JP, Rasher and Mono were occupying their usual stools at the bar. The atmosphere was just the way they liked it – a little background hum that gave the place a nice ambiance but not enough noise to stifle conversation and engagement. That being said – the boys hadContinue reading “5 life regrets – Donleavy style”

It was another quiet midweek night in Donleavy’s. The yardstick always was if you could hear the conversation on the non-smoker side of the bar. When the smoking ban came in Donleavy had creatively extended his massive wooden bar counter and with a combination of civil architecture, air flow engineering and plastic see-through curtains hadContinue reading “Another view on Politics”