Head up thraw. They might go for it next week. I knew a freelancer who said this shit happens all the time. It was the bane of her life. Stories get pulled for loads of reasons.
Yeah. I’ll see what the ed. says. If they don’t use it I’ll pitch it to all and sundry tomorrow. Feel it’s a bit unfair to take a written piece, ask me to supply photos after I send it in, sit on it for a few weeks and then not use it after saying they would.
Met P. Freyne on Friday night and gave him a bottle of nice vino for his help and encouragement anyway. Very nice guy.
Still, the hurling to go.
The editor is a cunt. “Oh, sorry, I probably should’ve told you last week”
“You sound disappointed”
Said something about the photos not being good enough. Wanker. 
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 1021024, member: 129”]The editor is a cunt. “Oh, sorry, I probably should’ve told you last week”
“You sound disappointed”
Said something about the photos not being good enough. Wanker. :([/QUOTE]
Ah balls.
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 1021024, member: 129”]The editor is a cunt. “Oh, sorry, I probably should’ve told you last week”
“You sound disappointed”
Said something about the photos not being good enough. Wanker. :([/QUOTE]
Ah FFS. That’s horseshit. Hardly fair as it didn’t give you the chance to sell the piece elsewhere. It’s not nearly as marketable now (I appreciate there’s a hurling replay this weekend but there’ll be far less of Thraw’s type of piece in the papers this weekend). You should express your disappointment to him in a polite but firm manner.
Exactly, tell him he’s a cunt
Do not tell him he’s a cunt thraw. Try to sell it(unlikely maybe at this stage) but you may need this cunt again. Start writing about your quest to complete the marathon. Mix it up with your quest for a job you like. Make sure it has all the nagging doubts in your head. Don’t mention the booze. Bingo bango bongo you’re back in the game.
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 1021024, member: 129”]The editor is a cunt. “Oh, sorry, I probably should’ve told you last week”
“You sound disappointed”
Said something about the photos not being good enough. Wanker. :([/QUOTE]
Unbelievable liars.
Agreed. Why not mention the booze though if writing under a pseudonym? I’m not saying do or don’t, but thrawneen has a lot to say, and should be himself no?
Nothing to do with psuedonym. Just think papers will take feelgood but real piece about running coming up to marathon. A boozing loving jobless lad might be too much. Most of the big papers do occasional ‘edgy’ pieces on booze but invariably use one of their big name journalists.
But maybe you’re right. What the fuck do i know.
Following on from the David Walsh article, here is a little gem published in the KK People back in 08.
The Kilkenny People Weekender Friday April 11 2008
“Kilkenny Will Win This One” by Barrie Henriques
I met “Busty” the other day and with a broad smile on his face, his first salutation was, “we’ll bate ‘em back to Gortnahoe.” There was no semblance as to my well being, no mention of my family and their state of health. There wasn’t even mention of Bertie (he would die for the Drumcondra man), just the Tipp match on Sunday in Nowlan Park. “And I’ll tell ya another thing yousir,” he said with his chest swelling like the mandible of a Uratrayan bullfrog, “there won’t be many of them coming to the Nowlan Park ayther, ‘cos they knows they’ll get hammered.”
The man has been following hurling since before the Ark took off from Mount Ararat, or as he himself has often been heard mutter, since before Brian Cody’s arse was as big as a shirt button. In very simple terms he has no regard for Tipperary hurling. His judgement is generally good, and he is not usually given to questionable hyperbole but when it comes to playing against Tipp, he loses total reason, all his senses and most of his sound judgement.
You see, Busty was around when he thought that he would die before he would see a Kilkenny team beat Tipperary in a serious hurling game, not alone an All-Ireland Final. Too often he witnessed the hordes who purposely went home to mid-Tipp towns via Callan, just to rub in the brine. It was not pleasant being a resident of border towns like Callan and Urlingford. Word on the street had it that after a Tipp/Kilkenny final, Busty got “langers” in a local hostelry. The inebriation was certainly perpetrated by the sight of the amassed Blue and Gold transiting his town on their way to Thurles, Nenagh or even Lorrha. Busty was staggering home from the pub, well tanked, when he decided to go into the parish church, where he decided to do the Stations of the Cross. As he stumbled the few steps from Station to Station, the Parish Priest came out and advised Busty that he was doing the Stations back to front. “Jazus, Father,” said Busty, “I was wonderin’ about that because the more of them I was doin’ the better Jesus was getting.”
But I am prompted to go along with Busty. I too think that Kilkenny will win and, if that is what I think, why not say so. No point in waffling on about the maybes and the mights in this instance. I have seen many of the National League games through the season now and, in truth, I have not been one bit impressed with any of the teams, particularly any of the four teams in the semi-finals, with one exception. Kilkenny are light years ahead of the rest, of that there is no doubt. In fact, they are so ahead of the pack that one fears for the state of hurling in many of the Counties that had a hurling tradition. Presently in Leinster, Dublin, yes Dublin, are the second best team in the Province. You look at Wexford and you weep. Laois are getting progressively worse as the years progress and poor Offaly are sinking fast. The only county making progress are the Dubs and, maybe just maybe, in a couple of years time, they will have a very decent senior outfit. Wouldn’t that be great? But back to Sunday!
I’ll be in Dublin doing commentary for Setanta TV and I would very much like to be in Nowlan Park just to see how many of their considerable gears will Kilkenny have to engage to beat this Tipp team. In fairness, Tipp have been making progress and, in a couple of years from now, Liam Sheedy will have a good, mature, solid team.
Tipp haven’t exactly burned the bushes to reach this stage of the League. They beat Offaly by 17 points. At least six of the Kilkenny senior clubs could do that presently. They beat Limerick by 11 points. Did you, dear reader, ever rate Limerick? They are a very moderate team with a number of shadow boxers in their ranks. How they got to an All-Ireland Final in 2007 “bates Banagher.” Maybe they can point to the fact that they went down to Salthill and drew with Galway. Big deal. They drew with half a Galway team, because the other half of that team will never be handed a maroon and white gansey again and that’s a fact. If they are, hurling is in a worse state than even I thought.
Tipp drew with Clare. I wouldn’t boast about that, either. And then they hammered poor Laois. In truth, Laois had as much chance of beating Tipp as Barac (sic) Obama had of being admitted to the Klu (sic) Klux Klan. Will Kilkenny win on Sunday? No doubt, and if you want reasons for my forecast, I’ll give you twenty good reasons, and I’ll be very fair, you can pick any fifteen of them. So to start with my twenty reasons, here we go: James McGarry, Michael Kavanagh, Jackie Tyrrell, JJ Delaney, PJ Delaney, Tommy Walsh……Need I go any further?
May the road rise with you.
Enjoy the result.
Another fucking gowlbag
Tony Grealish got a mention in the Sunday Times Birthday list on Sunday. Seemingly he turned 58 on Sunday.
[QUOTE=“Mullach Ide, post: 1021174, member: 141”]Following on from the David Walsh article, here is a little gem published in the KK People back in 08.
The Kilkenny People Weekender Friday April 11 2008
“Kilkenny Will Win This One” by Barrie Henriques
I met “Busty” the other day and with a broad smile on his face, his first salutation was, “we’ll bate ‘em back to Gortnahoe.” There was no semblance as to my well being, no mention of my family and their state of health. There wasn’t even mention of Bertie (he would die for the Drumcondra man), just the Tipp match on Sunday in Nowlan Park. “And I’ll tell ya another thing yousir,” he said with his chest swelling like the mandible of a Uratrayan bullfrog, “there won’t be many of them coming to the Nowlan Park ayther, ‘cos they knows they’ll get hammered.”
The man has been following hurling since before the Ark took off from Mount Ararat, or as he himself has often been heard mutter, since before Brian Cody’s arse was as big as a shirt button. In very simple terms he has no regard for Tipperary hurling. His judgement is generally good, and he is not usually given to questionable hyperbole but when it comes to playing against Tipp, he loses total reason, all his senses and most of his sound judgement.
You see, Busty was around when he thought that he would die before he would see a Kilkenny team beat Tipperary in a serious hurling game, not alone an All-Ireland Final. Too often he witnessed the hordes who purposely went home to mid-Tipp towns via Callan, just to rub in the brine. It was not pleasant being a resident of border towns like Callan and Urlingford. Word on the street had it that after a Tipp/Kilkenny final, Busty got “langers” in a local hostelry. The inebriation was certainly perpetrated by the sight of the amassed Blue and Gold transiting his town on their way to Thurles, Nenagh or even Lorrha. Busty was staggering home from the pub, well tanked, when he decided to go into the parish church, where he decided to do the Stations of the Cross. As he stumbled the few steps from Station to Station, the Parish Priest came out and advised Busty that he was doing the Stations back to front. “Jazus, Father,” said Busty, “I was wonderin’ about that because the more of them I was doin’ the better Jesus was getting.”
But I am prompted to go along with Busty. I too think that Kilkenny will win and, if that is what I think, why not say so. No point in waffling on about the maybes and the mights in this instance. I have seen many of the National League games through the season now and, in truth, I have not been one bit impressed with any of the teams, particularly any of the four teams in the semi-finals, with one exception. Kilkenny are light years ahead of the rest, of that there is no doubt. In fact, they are so ahead of the pack that one fears for the state of hurling in many of the Counties that had a hurling tradition. Presently in Leinster, Dublin, yes Dublin, are the second best team in the Province. You look at Wexford and you weep. Laois are getting progressively worse as the years progress and poor Offaly are sinking fast. The only county making progress are the Dubs and, maybe just maybe, in a couple of years time, they will have a very decent senior outfit. Wouldn’t that be great? But back to Sunday!
I’ll be in Dublin doing commentary for Setanta TV and I would very much like to be in Nowlan Park just to see how many of their considerable gears will Kilkenny have to engage to beat this Tipp team. In fairness, Tipp have been making progress and, in a couple of years from now, Liam Sheedy will have a good, mature, solid team.
Tipp haven’t exactly burned the bushes to reach this stage of the League. They beat Offaly by 17 points. At least six of the Kilkenny senior clubs could do that presently. They beat Limerick by 11 points. Did you, dear reader, ever rate Limerick? They are a very moderate team with a number of shadow boxers in their ranks. How they got to an All-Ireland Final in 2007 “bates Banagher.” Maybe they can point to the fact that they went down to Salthill and drew with Galway. Big deal. They drew with half a Galway team, because the other half of that team will never be handed a maroon and white gansey again and that’s a fact. If they are, hurling is in a worse state than even I thought.
Tipp drew with Clare. I wouldn’t boast about that, either. And then they hammered poor Laois. In truth, Laois had as much chance of beating Tipp as Barac (sic) Obama had of being admitted to the Klu (sic) Klux Klan. Will Kilkenny win on Sunday? No doubt, and if you want reasons for my forecast, I’ll give you twenty good reasons, and I’ll be very fair, you can pick any fifteen of them. So to start with my twenty reasons, here we go: James McGarry, Michael Kavanagh, Jackie Tyrrell, JJ Delaney, PJ Delaney, Tommy Walsh……Need I go any further?
May the road rise with you.
Enjoy the result.[/QUOTE]
Iirc Tipp won that game?
Yep, won the league that year.
[QUOTE=“Juhniallio, post: 1021168, member: 53”]Nothing to do with psuedonym. Just think papers will take feelgood but real piece about running coming up to marathon. A boozing loving jobless lad might be too much. Most of the big papers do occasional ‘edgy’ pieces on booze but invariably use one of their big name journalists.
But maybe you’re right. What the fuck do i know.[/QUOTE]
And maybe you are. What the fuck do I know either. I suppose I’m thinking more about what I’d like to read myself, than what might get published in a national newspaper. I would have thought they’d like the giving up the drink to go running angle maybe though. They seem to be on an anti drink tirade this weather.
+1
@Thrawneen - you want to appear hungry to this guy, the last thing you want is for him to think you’re going to be a problem, that you’re difficult and hard to deal with. Think of the amount of stuff he has submitted by out of work journos or students. Keep writing material, keep submitting pieces to him, he’s going to think this guy is willing to keep at it, to establish a body of work. Sooner or later he’s going to need a piece to run and he’s going to use one of yours. No such thing as luck, it’s opportunity meeting persistence. It sounds like a worn cliche, but in my line of work (with long sales cycles) it’s very very true. I’d be submitting work to every publication possible. Case in point - the Ploughing Championships - great potential there for something for the Irish Farmers Journal - the perspective of someone who knows nothing about farming. You need to start getting published anywhere you can, start building momentum and a body of work.
Martin Breheny reporting on the shambles in Mayo GAA: “One suspects that McStay might be similarly disinclined to become involved at a later stage either”.
Either he was available to comment and did or he wasn’t and he didn’t. No one wants a new report with the feelings abd suspicions of the reporter creeping in.
I hope the life assurance company are getting their money back?