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I can feel my hopes rising and decide to nip that in the bud. I always like to keep my expectations low to reduce my chances of being disappointed. I honestly don’t know how Americans go through life with their ‘positive mental attitude’ craic. What a nightmare.
Ronan Keating was dead right about life being a rollercoaster. You just gotta ride it.
That’s Majella for you – she’s pure Samantha, always has been – she gets what she wants. She gets things she doesn’t want too, like chlamydia during her first year in college in Limerick, but it barely slowed her down (although she did have to send a few awkward texts).
I think they were hoping to lure poor tourists down to ‘luxury rentals’ near the bit of a lake over by Garbally and ‘authentic Irish pints’ back in Maguire’s. Authentic Irish Guinness farts more like it.
‘Apparently there’s a bit of drama outside – a dog bit Mad Tom and he bit it back. The vet is on the way.’
Billy Foran didn’t bank on the arrival of the spice bag along with the Zhus and had to eat his words fairly lively – now he’s one of their best customers.
‘Dios mío,’
I don’t believe in fairies myself, but I’d rather walk across the M50 than walk across a fairy ring. I’m not stone mad.
we all fire our bags on the floor and start shaking what our mammies gave us.
‘Don’t stress the should-haves. If it could have, it would have.’
Apparently Willy has taken to following him into the bathroom and staring at him in the shower. ‘It’s the eye contact, I can no longer take it,’ Pablo told me while Maj rubbed his thigh reassuringly. ‘Willy, he never look away. I cover my bolas with the shower cap.’ Poor Mammy nearly choked on her scone.
I’ll let you go, Mammy. Byebye byebyebye byebyebyebye.’
I’m about to flick off the telly when the camera pans away from where Graham is chatting to Benedict Cumberbatch, who has a head like a melted candle,
You forget that mammies aren’t just mammies. They have plans and ambitions and dreams.
