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Gary Mackey is a writer and actor from the island formerly known as Hibernia...Ireland. Most evenings he can be found in The National Library of Ireland leafing through crumbling folios while tonguing his way around a ten pack of teacakes. Contact him at @gazbotisdead

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In The Name Of the Gobaloon |3| The Mortality Game

Gary Mackey Aug 21, 2018 0

The porter black sky pressed on the city as An Ruirteach’s waters seemed to be ripped from the river bed and strewn across the entirety of Baile Átha Cliath. It was absolutely pissing it down. On the zenith of Fishamble Street,…

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In the Name of the Gobaloon |2| A Coddle Full of Cod

Gary Mackey Jul 18, 2018 0

Take a slurp of that. A fine batch today. No need to twist my arm. Cuchulainn’s Coddle. After the empire fell to the hoards of Fenians in 1916 the consumption of coddle rose astronomically across the Isles of Eire. Coddle became a…

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In the Name of the Gobaloon |1| The Stout, The Wake and The Crozier

Gary Mackey Jun 25, 2018 0

Up in the cold farness of the mesosphere exists the booming consciousnesses of numerous Goddesses and Gods. Over the eons these yokes have morphed, guffawed, destroyed, loved and laughed at the simple fleshy lumps called human who so revere…

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Ancient Days: The Personal Diary of Giorgio Tsoukalos of the Hit Show Ancient Aliens

Gary Mackey Jun 27, 2017 0

March 2017 Tuesday Burritos are delicious... and possibly the most ancient meal known to man. Lunch at La Azteca on East Chavez Avenue was a triumph. It was so good I got two burritos to go. Spent a few hours in a library printing some…

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Trismegistus: A Caffeinated Adventure

Gary Mackey May 30, 2017 0

I preened myself blue in front of the mirror and after a swift forage around my masculinity I determined I was ready to emerge. The bum blusters had come thick and fast (tuna melt) so I was overjoyed to have made it to the bog browned bowl…

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I Am Robert Langdon: All Bound For Mu Mu Land |3| There Is A Crack In Everything

Gary Mackey May 19, 2017 0

In February 2000 I emerged from my underground bunker, a converted passage tomb near The Hill of Tara, to discover that the world had not ended and the dreaded Y2K bug had failed to wipe out our species. I was relieved but lost. Months…

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