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Des Traynor
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Writer, I guess. How about you?
July 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
July 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
June 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I had the misfortune to encounter this Pillar of Society in 1991,when I was referred to her after a surgeon botched a ‘routine’ procedure, resulting in chronic pain.She interrogated me relentlessly. A disgusting person.There is a lot of € to be made mistreating those with mental health difficulties.
June 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
June 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Guess where I’m off to?
June 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
May 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It seems that I have a piece in Totally Dublin, about Profiles literary and visual arts magazine.
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
May 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Israel is, apparently, ‘the Jewish state’, and is committing genocide. That would make anyone ‘antisemitic’.
May 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Outside of all the High Modernist and playful postmodernist novels I love, probably my favourite, desert island novel is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard. Subtle, precise, fatalistic, elegiac. Magnificent sentences. And it’s got a story.

The Leopard doesn’t change his spots. The times do.
May 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The U.S. has made itself an enemy of civilisation, a friend of barbarism, and is - to borrow a phrase from a former president - the main locus of evil in the world today.
April 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Fun Factoid. Bet you didn't know that now.

'Bowie and his wife Angie moved out of Beckenham's Haddon Hall because of harassment by fans. They moved initially into an apartment in Maida Vale, rented to them by the actress Diana Rigg, before moving into a larger house on Oakley Street, Chelsea.'
March 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
See, this whole let’s ethically cleanse Palestine and turn it into a high-end tourist resort has a long history for the United States of America (and other colonial powers).
February 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Not so different from some of our punk footwear, back in the (more recent) day.
February 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Three collections of short stories reviewed, from my early days at Books Ireland. At least it led to an enduring friendship with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.

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January 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Angiogram over. One stent required.
January 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What a disappointment rabid Zionist David Simon, crested of The Wire, has turned out to be. Foul mouthed as well as ignorant. Interesting how he doesn’t mention the British Empire once. The denizens of the genocide enabling U.S. really are living in an alternate reality.
January 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Blotto the Beatific altar boy. Probably confuses $$$ with God.
January 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Callow review of The Information by Martin Amis, although I can see that I had made my mind up early about Amis. Again, from the late '90s, in The Big Issues, of all places.

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January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Good books that probably wouldn’t get published today #7.
December 18, 2024 at 11:36 AM
December 18, 2024 at 10:38 AM
December 14, 2024 at 11:23 AM
My review of the Dogs album Joy, in the new December issue of The Goo. Alas, it appears anonymously, credited to the initials ??. Perhaps my signature style is so recognisable that the DT is unnecessary.
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December 5, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Diehard Liverpool fan @declynchwriter.bsky.social predictably having a chuckle at City's expense in the @irishindependent.bsky.social (Sindo). Let's see how it all pans out, eh? Six titles in seven years is, in all fairness, none too shabby. Or would he prefer we win the Prem every year?
December 2, 2024 at 12:04 PM