Where Are My Wellies?

Description

Journalist, author, radio broadcaster, photographer, sane, Ð none of these words can be used to accurately describe Paddy Toye, the multi-purpose, self-styled bogman from Ballindrait. In what can only be described as a Ôbook,Õ Paddy takes a wry look back on his childhood growing up in a rural Irish village in the 1980s. As one of the last generation of children for whom the phrase Ôjumpers for goalpostsÕ wasnÕt meant ironically, Paddy and his pals found other ways to amuse themselves since nobody had bothered to invent the internet: vandalism, arson, violence, theft, tractor surfing, livestock harassment, and a host of other hobbies and pastimes thatÕll have you reaching for the WertherÕs Originals. The second half of the book is a collection of hilarious columns from PaddyÕs time as one of IrelandÕs leading redneck intellectuals, from 2009-2013, when he briefly managed to convince everyone he was a journalist.

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