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Eoghan Walsh

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Irish writer, Brussels based. Writes on food and drink, travel, keeps an urban diary at Brussels Notes https://www.brusselsnotes.substack.com

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · Aug 13

I Have a Love — The Resurrection of Beer, Football and Community Under Dublin Floodlights

For @pelliclemag.com, I wrote about the stunning twin revivals of Dublin football & Dublin brewing.

Featuring Phibsboro shopping centre immortalised by @davidsquires.bsky.social

I Have a Love — The Resurrection of Beer, Football and Community Under Dublin Floodlights — Pellicle

On 15 July 2009, Stephen Clinch landed in Salzburg, tired and confused, after jetting from Dublin to Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, back to Dublin, and finally, to Munich. He’d been buying equipment for hi...

www.pelliclemag.com

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1h

E-bikes (especially e-cargo bikes) > E-cars (or any cars, really)

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8h

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1h

This is my Oasis reunion tbh

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 5h

Cf their objections to the redesign of the Avenue du port, which like many other projects lost in bureaucratic hell in Brussels, is never going to happen

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 5h

It’s ale most as if they used whatever tricks they could find to get what they wanted - who knew the port authorities were so concerned about a park

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

Haha, we can but dream (and join our public sector unions just in case)

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

It’s almost as if they haven’t thought this through. If we’re all un/underemployed, who’s going to buy all their techie gadgets?

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

It’s just as well we don’t actually have the money to pay for projects like this otherwise I’d be pretty depressed

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 10h

In an alternate reality out there somewhere is a liveable Brussels www.dhnet.be/regions/brux...

Le Conseil d'État annule le permis de la passerelle cyclable sous le pont Jules De Trooz à Laeken

La passerelle De Trooz, censée relier les rives du canal pour les cyclistes et piétons, ne verra pas le jour tout de suite.

www.dhnet.be

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking of @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com on this special day for her 😂

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

Football sucks www.walfoot.be/news/2025-10...

Le moment tant redouté par l'Union : Sébastien Pocognoli va bel et bien s'en aller !

Sébastien Pocognoli est fortement convoité par Monaco. Et l'entraîneur de l'Union aurait fait son choix

www.walfoot.be

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

So close to staring into the abyss of human absurdity

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 14h

Man describes Waiting for Godot as "an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness" - and he's complaining he didn't get it!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 15h

As an addendum to this week's discussion on Belgian beer culture, here's a discussion between a Belgian and an American brewer from Ghent.

tl;dr (bc Jasper doesn't like Hegel): "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."

youtu.be/BYlizpu3-N4?...

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

I will investigate!

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

East London - loss of stars on my google map (mostly pubs)

West London - zero stars anywhere west of Pimlico.

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Middle age is booking a hotel for a few days in London in *Hammersmith* and thinking, “that’s a good deal”

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 1d

Middle age is booking a hotel for a few days in London in *Hammersmith* and thinking, “that’s a good deal”

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

Been there, done that, bought the burn-out 😂

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

In the best spirit of old-school blogging, I present my "rebuttal" of @boakandbailey.bsky.social's fine polemic on Belgian beer published this morning.

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

Knackered now though, this blogging stuff is tiring

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

😜

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

yes, comrade!

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 2d

This is great.

Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

They asked for a response, so I couldn't exactly let them down, could I?

On Belgian beer, Hegelian dialectics, and why Belgium's craft beer turn makes perfect sense.

In response to @boakandbailey.bsky.social: boakandbailey.com/2025/10/we-d...

They don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s their problem* — Brussels Beer City

*Or, a (semi-serious) rebuttal of Boak and Bailey’s “We don’t want Belgian beer to change – and that’s our problem” Picture this: it’s 1925, and you’re a young English man of means stepping of...

www.beercity.brussels

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

*Bane voice*: "You merely adopted the snark. We were born in it, molded by it."

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Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 2d

I've just realised this is basically the plot of Midnight in Paris (or at least the ending)