Absolutely bizarre that you could get a jail sentence from someone unqualified to either defend or prosecute you
It was a very bleak place in the 80s, sport was a huge boost when it was gong well,
My old fella worked in Fords as did most of our neighbours that weren’t working in Dunlops, I was down for the weekend and spent a fair bit of time in town and around Douglas, it’s unrecognizable from the dark days
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While understanding that we may have reached peak Vietnam on this site, I would like to commend this book. For a Max Hastings book it is very readable, though as usual very long.
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60 pages into Solar Bones
Fantastic so far
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This should be a great read
Sighs… The Cunt has no shame.
Solar Bones is magnificent
I suspect a book that stays with a reader after finishing it
I thought I wouldn’t like a book with no chapters, I was completely wrong. Outstanding
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Where does he get the time 
If you’ll excuse me now Minister, the truth of the matter is that below in Kerry time is treated… Blah Blah…
Reading Booker Prize winner Milkman at the moment. Kept imagining key character Milkman as Pat Mustard for the first 100 or so pages which diminished the dramatic impact somewhat.
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This was a good book but has stylistic quirks that will absolutely madden some of TFK’s readers, principally the avoidance of any names, either of people or places, very long paragraphs and chapters. It is not an easy or quick read as a result.
It is however brilliant at conveying a sense of what it must have been like living in a nationalist enclave in the North during the troubles.
You apply to be a magistrate. Prerequisites are you 1 have to be old, and 2 have to be a complete cunt.
I started a book in the week about a sailing ship and poppies which opens in India by an Indian author. I was really enjoying it til I lost the fucking thing. 
Was it called " Behind the Bushes " by any chance. The author was Ivor Knickersdown.
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100 pages into “The Baltimore Boys” ,second book by Joel Dicker who wrote “The truth about the Harry Quibert affair”, enjoyable so far.
Just finished from a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan there. Enjoyed it.
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Fagan, you seem to be a man of refined and sensible tastes. It’ll take you an afternoon to read the following book. Go on and give it a go, then you can tell the lads here how extraordinary it is. They don’t have the wit to listen to me.
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Is audible worth having?
Are there better alternatives?
If you’ve read one book is it necessary to read another?
I spend about 15 hours a week in the car its definitely worth it
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If you buy an actual book on amazon do they provide an audible version free?