As regular colyoomistas will already know, I've just finished a compilation of my newspaper column 'Double Vision's best bits, as published in the Galway City Tribune and Connacht Tribune between 1992-2009.
The book is filled with bite-size funny chunks, hearty meaningful morsels and full-on philosophical feasts and now you can grab a sneak preview by voting for one of the chapters listed below.
Just add a comment on the blog, saying which chapter you want to see a clip from, and whether you're looking for a laugh or something more mentally challenging to chew on.
Once there's enough votes, I'll post a couple of excerpts from the winning chapter, so ye all can have a gander, a giggle or a groan.
Ah go on, you will you will you will...
Here are the runners and riders:
1 Little People, Co. Mayo and other natural wonders.
2 It wasn’t me mate - I wasn’t there! My part in the Famine and other atrocities.
3 Getting Galwayed!
4 What exactly is an Atheist-Pantheist Jew?
5 Balls and ‘No problem!’ - the Irish attitude to service.
6 Pootles and holidays from heaven or hell.
7 Life, Death and Connemara.
8 Brown envelopes, Bertie and old beef.
9 Neutrality and naivety: How the Irish survived Dubya.
10 My body, blue bag and black dog.
11 Festivals and other frivolities.
12 How do I love Ireland? Let me count the ways ...
So there you have them, and now... the choice is yours. Hype shmipe baby, show me your clickers. Let me see inside your psyches, my colyoomistas ...
