Posts by Niall Connolly
The sweet spot between too early and too late?
Rockaway, March 21st, 2025 I’ve been booking gigs for myself and others since the mid 90s AND STILL I am frequently bamboozled as to the the right amount of…
Read MoreA Fella Who Kicks People in the Head for a Living Meets with a Reality TV Star
Rockaway Park, NY – March 18th, 2025 It’s hard to deal with all of this isn’t it? Conor McGregor is a MMA fighter. A man who kicks people in…
Read MoreYour Grandma Doesn’t Want You to be a Fascist
“Karma Police, Arret this man” – See what I did there? Rockaway Park, Monday March 17th, 2025 A heavy fog hugs the peninsula this wet St. Patrick’s morning.…
Read MoreWhat a Time To Be Alive
East Durham, NY, February 21st, 2025 We went to a protest in Albany on President’s day and one sign read ‘There’s not enough space on this sign to list…
Read MoreEggs Unlimited Discussing Egg Shortage
Rockaway Park, Jan 23rd, 2024 I heard a man on the radio from a company called Eggs Unlimited discussing, wait for it, a national egg shortage. It felt like…
Read MorePlaying Rory Gallagher’s Guitar in Cork
Rockaway, NY – Tuesday Jan, 7th, 2025 I think I was in second year in school when I say Rory Gallagher play Lark by the Lee in Cork. Later…
Read MoreThe Frank and Walters and Me
Sporting my 1993 Frank and Walters t-shirt in 2024 Rockaway Park, Nov 27, 2024 Ceasefire in Lebanon. Trump appointees. Irish Elections Friday. Thanksgiving tomorrow. I had a lovely WhattsApp…
Read MoreListening to the news with Yeats after the Circus Fire
Rockaway, Nov 7th, 2024 Yeats, calling out from the grave, through a battered copy of ‘Soundings’, a memory scratching its way to the surface, 1990 something and teenage me wondering…
Read MorePhotos from the Edge of America
Rockaway Park, NY – November 4th, 2024 I vote because I have a little girl. I want her to live in a sane and sustainable society. A society where our…
Read MoreDo you have a voting plan?
October 23rd, 2024 – Anywhere, USA Four outraged citizens sitting on a bench opposite a pile of horse shit. Their dogs, their doggie bags and doggie accessories at hand.”I called…
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