John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

Why has no one mentioned how cold it was before this? ;)

I love driving in the snow.

And just in time for the weekend.

Working from home today and it’s nice and cool in my living room. The heat at work hit’s 26.5 oC at my desk. Crazy! It’s a nice 18 oC in my living room now. Comfortable! I may never go back to the office again :)

Looks cold outside though.

A quick interview with Aisling Daly before her main event bout in Cork this Saturday. Aisling is currently the 5th highest ranked female fighter in the world.

I have my tickets in my pocket for the fights on Saturday. Aisling is the main event. I can’t wait.

“When I catch up with Aisling ‘Ais the Bash’ Daly, she is remarkably relaxed having spent the day sorting out the essentials (hair and outfit) before her main-card bout with Molly Helsel at Cage Warriors 39 in Cork City, Ireland. Aisling’s confidence is not misplaced, currently ranked the 5th 125lbs female fighter in the world according to the Unified Women’s MMA Rankings, she is definitely a rising star on the international women’s MMA stage.”

Read entire article….

Neil Prendeville Edition

Details on the Zombie Walk in Cork. I’m there! it should be great fun.

“‘We’ve been in contact with the Garda about the Zombie Walk. They insisted in us keeping in the footpaths as well as respect the trafiic lights, so I please ask everyone to follow this instructions, we don’t want to get us in trouble!!! So please, bite away peacefully… :P

Also, please remember to come 15 minutes to the start point. This means to be there at 15.45. You can download a pdf map of the route in http://www.theresistanz.com

Come dressed up already! we will try to bring some make up, but we cannot do it for nearly 300 people, it will break our bank! so please come dressed up as proper zombies already, we only may be able to help you there with finishing touches.

Finally, two bands are confirmed to play in the Vineyard, which is jolly good imo. There will be food, brain cocktails, and more surprises. We just ask you to bite, enjoy and have a good time!”

Well I’m all ready to drive to Belfast on Tuesday to train with Wanderlei Silva and then I hear he’s coming to Cork for an autograph session. I’m not upset though because it’s a training session in Belfast which is way better. Still though first Chuck Liddell comes here and now Wanderlei. Pretty cool.

Looking forward to having a picture of Wanderlei to go with the one below.

Well it didn’t take long for Millstreet to embarrass itself on Google Street View. To be honest having grown up there this doesn’t surprise me in the least. It is funny though.

Update Having thought about this a bit more I’m leaning towards the idea that this guy did it on purpose. In which case that means some of the quickest thinking and funniest people in Ireland are from Millstreet. God help us!