Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


free the chip shop five

They called it ‘perhaps the most shameful night in our community’s history…’

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But what about that time the handicapped boy was locked in a phone box and he pissed himself? What about then?? Read the rest of this article here.

Published: Mongrel Magazine, August 2004

FREE THE CHIP SHOP FIVE!

free-the-chip-shop-fiveA grave injustice has been done. Five young men have been punished for a crime they had very little to do with. Barred for life from Marco’s Take Away in Stoneybatter (the fast food outlet of choice for a new generation), tut-tutted at by every pain-in-the-hole auld one in a two mile radius, and for what? The muddled testimony of a henpecked chip shop owner? The palsied lies of his stubby-fingered wife? Read the rest of this entry »