Vikings

This week on Fireside is Episode 84: The Wars of the Gael and the Gaul Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show…

As the last of the Christmas treats hit the bottom of the wheely bin and it becomes officially too late to greet acquaintances with a “happy new year”, it’s important to take a moment to reflect on your life choices and plan for the future.…

Read part one of Let It Snow here. “There’s your problem,” Paddy informed the semi-circle of scientists, removing a length of pipe from the immense machine and shaking it, “the thing's jammed up full of quarks”. The ALBA Synchrotron…

Previously on Enter Dr. Viking, Paddy and B-Man, Limerick's greatest superheroes, noticed an unusual number of hipsters around the place. Some enhanced interrogation of one of the hipsters has led them to Micky's pub.  The next night our…

It was half past eight on a Friday evening in July. The sky was still bright, the rain had fecked off for a bit and Paddy and B-Man were out for a quiet pint. They were off-duty tonight, costumes left at home, civvies on. Paddy was wearing…

The story of Egil, the son of bald (”skalla”) Grimr, blurs the line between fact and legend. While we know he was a real person, the details of his life come to us from saga and song. Historians generally distrust oral traditions, as…