"See how easy it is to wind up you labour lackeys!!!"
Do you really believe we don't know you are a wind-up merchant
Thanks for the opportunity to discuss our dependents
It's always struck me how much more democratic Ireland is as far as having contact with our betters
In 1965 I nearly had my foot run over by DeValera's Limousine when coming out ofa Hurling Final at Croake ParkI was within reach of him and Grace Kelly as they drove past
I was in the first row when our lovely 1st woman President, Mary Robinson when she opened the Irish Traditional Music Archive
Pat and I nearly bumped into our second Lady President in Dublin - she and her husband were going into Marks and Sparks as we were coming out
The late Paddy Hillery's house is about a mile from here - we could have gone boozing with him if we'd drunk in his brother's pub
Pat showed our present President to his (very uncomfortable) chair when he opened the Willie Clancy Summer School
"Did I know 'Pedro the Bandit - haven't I just had lunch with him?", as the joke goes
A BBC reporter told the story of how he was sent to interview President Garret Fitzgerald in the middle of The Troubles in the 70s
They were sitting at his kitchen table (G F was still in his dressing gown)
The reporter saw a man climb over the back fence carrying something and panicked, thinking it might be an attack
Fitzgerald excused himself, walked into the garden and came back carrying two bottles of milk
Life's a bit different here - you wouldn't get Liz or Phil doing that
Jim Carroll