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On William Hill's The Square Ball this week, Dave and Ashling were joined by none other than Galway's much-beloved, Cyril Farrell.  Farrell discusses how he first made his mark as a coach and manager, most famously leading the Galway senior hurling team to three All-Ireland titles in the 1980s (1980, 1987, and 1988), a golden era for the county. As well as growing up in a sports mad area in Galway.There's a yarn or two thrown in as well!18+ | Gamblingcare.ie00:00 - Introduction04:00 - Early life and Great School Story11:00 - Galway Manager21:30 - 198031:00 - "Good Hurlers"36:00 - Stepping Away41:00 - Tough Decisions46:00 - Winning51:00 - Tony Keady59:20 - Galway Hurlers This year1:05:00 - The Modern Game

A pandemic survivor accidentally forms a harem.Based on a post by CorruptingPower, in 25 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels.Chapter 1Around day eighteen of the quarantine, Andy was starting to lose his damn mind. The governor of California had gotten on the television and announced that everyone who wasn't essential was under house arrest, essentially. Sure, the grocery stores were open, but restaurants were only doing delivery, and every bar in town was closed. The most time he'd spent outdoors in the last week had been walking out to the mailbox cluster for the complex down at the end of the street.Despite the fact that both of them had decent paying jobs “ Eric as a software engineer and Andy as a marketing writer “ neither could afford an entire place to themselves, so Andy paid rent to Eric, who owned the condo (or at least was paying it down).Andy also had a side hustle as a novelist, and was getting frustrated as hell that the quarantine was keeping him in place meant that his newest book was being pushed back. There was a warehouse full of fifty thousand copies of his next novel, and they were all just sitting there."They'll come out eventually," his agent had told him, but the whole thing felt very much like a death sentence to his literary ambitions. Andy even had a box of copies sitting on their kitchen table, along with a movie poster styled promotional in a frame."Did you get the mail today?" Andy asked his roommate."Nah," Eric said. "Didn't see the point.""Fair enough."Wham wham wham."You order food?""Nope. You?"A voice came from outside their front door. "CDC. Open the door, please."Eric moved to the door and peered through the peephole. On the other side, he saw a man in a biohazard suit, covered completely from head to toe. He raised one covered hand and waved. "I'm perfectly safe, as you can see. We're going door to door and testing people for the virus."Eric looked back at his roommate and shrugged. Andy grabbed his two cats, scooping one up in each arm as Eric opened the door. It was like something out of The Andromeda Strain, seeing the man in the yellow hazmat outside, a small box in one hand. "CDC?""Yeah. I'm Dave. Invite me in?"Andy shrugged and Eric laughed. "Sure, c'mon in. We just need to close the door behind you so the cats don't get out.""Sure sure, I get that. I'm here to test if you guys are clear. Is there some place I can set up?""Go ahead and use the kitchen. You want us together or one at a time?""The test only takes fifteen minutes and I can run up to four of them at a time, so come on. I can run you both." He lugged the kit with a world weariness, as if he'd been doing this thirty times a day since the lockdown had started. "Paperwork says you've got two guys living here “ Eric Yang and Andrew Rook. That you two?""That's us.""Nobody else in the condo?""Nope. Nobody else.""Cool," Dave said as he set the kit down on the kitchen table. He glanced up at the movie poster promotional on the wall above the kitchen table. "Oh hey, you guys are fan of the Druid Gunslinger books too? I fucking love those things."Eric laughed a little bit, sitting down in one of the kitchen chairs, rolling up his sleeve. "I mean, you could say that, I guess. He writes'em.""What? No, they're written by some guy named Blake Conrad." He glanced at Eric and grinned. "I don't need blood, man. Here, just rub this swab on the inside of your cheek for a bit."Andy smiled a bit sheepishly, putting the cats down. "Yeah, that's me. It's a pen name.""Why the hell would you want a pen name when you've got an awesome last name like Rook?""I'm friends with Arthur McStevenson. You know, the guy who writes all those thrillers you see on sale in the airports? Anyway, he told me that he wished he'd have taken a pen name before he got started, so people just couldn't look him up and track him down at home."Dave took the cotton swap that Eric handed him and put it into one of the four slots on the little machine he carried with him. "Oh hey, I'm sorry man. I don't want to bother you about it.""Nah, you didn't come tap on my window in the middle of the night or anything. What do I care?" Andy waved his hand before taking a cotton swab from him, rubbing it along the inside of his cheek, and then handed it back to the man in the bio suit."While this is running, I just gotta ask you guys a few other questions. Do you guys each have a twin bed?"Eric rolled his eyes. "Are you kidding me? Ask him about his bed. Just ask him."Andy crossed his arms over his chest, as if this was a discussion they'd had a number of times. "Eric's got a queen sized bed and I've got a California king sized bed. Even though I've got the smaller bedroom. But what can I say? When I got out of college, I bought a big ass bed, so I'd always be comfortable, and never wanted to give it up.""Why do you ask?""They're starting to force people to house additional people in their places, so we can keep the uncontaminated together, at least for a while.""What?" Eric said, his face scowling. "There's no way that's legal.""It's temporary, and we're doing everything we can to make sure people are at least okay with it. At this point, we're just doing what we can to get people through it. But the death toll is starting to stack up. I mean, have you seen the footage coming out of New York City?"Andy nodded. "Trailer trucks stacked full with body bags. It's terrifying.""Besides, it's not all that bad. The virus seems to be targeting men a lot more than women, so guys are scoring with women way out of their league. And the women seem to be a little friskier once they've developed an immunity to the virus. I'm sure you'll see eventually."Andy arched an eyebrow in the man's direction. "That sounds ominous."The man in the biohazard suit waved a hand dismissively in their direction. "Not at all. Just relax and enjoy the ride. That's all I should say about it. So when's the next Druid Gunslinger book coming out? It's really soon, isn't it?"Andy stepped over to the fridge, opening it to take out a can of soda, using the fridge to hide his sigh, although he wasn't entirely successful. "It was supposed to be out in three weeks, but because of the virus, the publisher's pushing it back to the fall. I mean, I understand. I get a lot of additional sales off of in store appearances and whatnot. I get it. And I'm already working on writing the next one. But it's always rough having a book release pushed back.""Man, that sucks. I was really looking forward to reading it during my downtime when they're driving us between locations.""Y'know what, you're a fan, so let me do you a favor. I better not see this show up on eBay or the internet though, otherwise I'm gonna know who it was." Andy moved over to the box on the kitchen and opened the top of it, taking one of the books out. "They call these advance reader copies. They send me a few boxes of them so I can sell them at appearances or give them away to friends and such. I haven't even sent my family copies yet. I think the only other person than my agent and my editor who's read the book is Eric here."Eric nodded. "It's not as good as 'Have Totem, Will Travel' but it's one of the better books in the series, I thought. Way better than 'The Trouble With Werebears,' but then again, that's not hard.""Everyone's a critic," Andy said, grabbing a pen from near the box. "Fair, though. I had to bang that one out in five weeks because the publisher just wanted to cram another one onto store shelves while it was hot. I wasn't satisfied with it either, but it still sold okay. You said your name was Dave, right?""Yeah," Dave answered.Andy opened the front cover of the hardback ARC and wrote in the front of it, "For Dave, Jake thinks you're one of the real heroes. Yours, Blake Conrad." He blew over the ink for a second, making sure it was dry, before closing it up and offering it to Dave. "There you go. Autographed, personalized copy months in advance of when you can get it in stores.""That's awesome, man!" Dave said, genuine enthusiasm in his voice. The machine on the table beeped, a cheerful tri tone medley. "You guys are both 100% virus clear. And let me pay you back for this," he said, patting the book on the table next to him. He flipped a little toggle switch on the machine and then pushed the large green button on the side. A small little printout scrolled out of the machine. He tore it off and then pushed the green button again. "Okay, this one is for you," he said, holding out the receipt to Eric. "And this one is for you, Mr. Conrad," he said with a laugh, holding out the second slip to Andy. "You need to go onto the website today and fill out the questionnaire. I know it's going to seem weird, but just answer the questions honestly and openly, and go through the whole thing. You'll be very glad you did later, okay?""What's it for?""It'll help you be happy with your pair ups when we bring them by in a few days. You know that giant condo complex a mile or two over?""What, the 30 story skyscraper?""Yeah. That's being converted into a triage hospital, so all the tenants are being evicted. Lots of people who are going to be relocated. There's a range of five possible questionnaires that uninfected men can get, and it's at the test giver's discretion. Most people, we just give them level one or two questionnaires.""What did you give us?""Welcome to level 5, fellas. It's mostly reserved for medical professionals and high rollers, but it's my discretion, and this little baby's going to keep me from losing my mind for the next few weeks, so I gotta make sure we're square," he said while patting the book. "This should more than even us out.""It makes that much of a difference?"Dave smiled like a Cheshire cat beneath his biohazard helmet and nodded. "You'll see. Just trust me on this. Go fill it out right away, though! They'll probably have someone here tomorrow or the day after, and you want to be ready." The scientist picked up the book in one hand and his testing kit in the other. "And with that, I'm off! I won't be able to get started on this tonight, but I'll see if I can swing by on one of the drop offs and let you know what I think of it.""Hey, it's always nice to meet a fan," Andy said. He moved to scoop up the two cats into his arms again before he and Eric walked him to the door.Dave shuffled toward the door, as Eric opened it for him. "Remember guys, the questionnaire is completely confidential and no one's going to judge you on any of it, so be completely honest. Got it? Completely. Honest.""With all the hyping you've been doing, I can't wait to see this questionnaire," Andy laughed. "Go on, go! You've got more people to be saving, I'm sure.""Take care, fellas!" Dave said.Eric closed the door on him, then flipped the lock, and then the deadbolt before putting the chain on. He liked to make sure it was secure. "So I suppose we both better go take this thing, huh?" he said to Andy, who was putting down the cats again."Guess so."Eric's desk was in the living room, while Andy's was part of the adjacent dining room. They'd been known to politely yell at one another from their desks. Andy typed in the website on the slip and hit return. A rather bland looking government website popped up. There Andy entered his name, his address, his social security number and address."He wasn't kidding when he said this quiz was unorthodox," Eric called over to him, clearly ahead of him in the process. "These are not the kind of questions I expect a government website to be asking me.""Oh yeah? I can't wait to find out." Andy typed in the personalization code at the bottom of the slip. It was a long series of characters, a mix of numbers and letters, both capital and lower case, with a variety of special characters mixed in “ 25 characters in all. Andy had to enter the series twice because the first time he hadn't realized it was case sensitive and the site had rejected it.The first question immediately surprised him. "Are you attracted to: Women, Men, Both?" It wasn't at all what he expected, but he checked "women" and the site moved onward. There was a small button marked back, in case he made errors, obviously.The next page asked him what ages of women he was attracted to. There were two little slider bars, with the low end going as far down at 18 and the high end going up to 70+. Andy was nearly 40, but the words of Dave rang through his head. "Be honest." Andy shrugged, leaving the low end set to 18 and brought the high end to 35.He was a more than a little caught off guard by the next question. "Would you consider yourself: Monogamous, polyamorous, no preference?" He had to think about it for a long moment, but eventually clicked "no preference." If he was truly honest with himself, if he found himself with a girlfriend who had another girlfriend, he wouldn't have been bothered by it.For the next twenty minutes, Andy continued to work through the website, filling in all the options about what he was and wasn't attracted to. Height, weight, race, hair color, hair length, eye color, nationality, education, physique, the questions went on and on and on. After he went through any given category, he was then given a follow up page to rank all of the things from most attracted to at the top down to least attracted to at the bottom.Towards the back half, he started to understand what Eric had found so surprising. The quiz had a page with a seemingly limitless collections of fetishes and kinks. At the top was the message "Click all that apply." Following that, all of the things Andy had clicked on were in another list he was expected to order.When he had to order all of his turn ons, he became more than a little aware how at odds with each other some of them were. In fact, he had aggressive women and submissive women next to one another in the ordered list. He wondered what the algorithm would make of that.The last page was the same fetish and kinks list presented again with a different message at the top. "Click all those that are hard turn offs for you. Be thorough." It was this page that Andy found himself clicking a lot of buttons.He also had to look up a handful of the terms that did not include clarification. He was sure there were people out there who liked pissing on each other, but he certainly wasn't one of those. He also had to make sure to reject women who were allergic to cats. He wondered if all this information was just going to ensure no one showed up.All in all, the whole thing felt a little like a thing he'd taken in college called the Purity Test, a thousand question party game where people who had been drinking would compare sexual histories.The final page was all the information he'd entered presented in an ordered list, with a message in large friendly red letters at the top. "Review all the information below for accuracy! Once you hit submit, you cannot revise this information!"After a final pass to make sure he hadn't marked anything incorrectly, he hit submit. The screen went blank for a second before a confirmation message popped up. "A copy of this has been mailed to the email address you provided. Thank you for helping us keep California safe!"Andy closed the web browser and rose up from his seat, heading over to talk to his roommate. "Okay, yeah, that was definitely weird.""What did you say to the polyamory question?" Eric asked him."I put no preference.""Really? Man, I couldn't click the monogamous button fast enough. Last thing I want is a girlfriend who's shacking up with another guy."Andy smirked. "What if she was shacking up with another girl?""Ah shit, I didn't even think of that."He shrugged at Eric with a wry smile. "Like it's going to make any fucking difference anyway. I'm sure the whole thing is just an optimistic pipe dream. When was the last time our government brought any real change with a website?""Heh. Guess we'll see.""Yep, suppose so."And that was the last they talked about it for the rest of the day. But it certainly wouldn't be the last time they talked about it.Chapter 2It was a little past noon the next day when there came a knock at the door. "Open up! CDC!" the voice on the other side shouted at them. "Delivery and I don't have time to fuck about so let's go."Andy was in the living room working on his laptop, and glanced over at Eric, who was hip deep in a conference call. "Don't worry, I got it. They probably just forgot some questions yesterday or something." Eric waved his hand as Andy set his laptop aside, carrying on with his conversation with his coworkers.Andy rose from the couch and made his way over to the front door, opening it without thinking to look through the peephole. The cats were both upstairs asleep, so he didn't worry about them. When he opened the door, there were three people outside of it, not the one he'd expected. The person in the middle looked a lot like Dave had, except for the face. The man inside this biohazard suit was a black man in his late forties. He looked a lot less jovial than Dave had.To the left and right of the man in the biohazard suit was a woman covered from head to toe. From the clothing, it was almost impossible to make out any details other than the woman to the left of him was short and the woman to the right was tall. Both of them wore hoodies with the hoods pulled up. They wore ski visors over their eyes and scarves over their noses and mouths. Both wore long sweatpants and had those fuzzy lined boots he'd never thought were fashionable. He couldn't see an inch of skin from either. Each of them had a small roller suitcase with them, the kind of travel bag someone takes for a holiday no longer than a week. They also each had a large bag under their arm, an oversized purse maybe, or a laptop bag. The whole appearance was almost like Berkas by Gucci."You Eric or Andy?" the man in the gear asked him."Andy.""Copy," the man said, tapping at his little pad with a stylus that dangled from it. He let the stylus drop and then opened a pouch on the outside of his suit, upholstering a bottle of Lysol. He sprayed the surface of the tablet for a few seconds then held it out to Andy. "Just use your finger to sign on the line. Any day now. I've got another seven deliveries to make today, and people are on the bus waiting so let's go."Andy lifted a finger up and signed an approximation of his name on the tablet's surface. "So how long is this for? That these people are staying with us?""Which room is Eric's and which room is Andy's?" the shorter of the two women asked."Upstairs and turn right for Eric's room and left for my, uh, Andy's room," he said, as the two women immediately brushed past him and ran upstairs. "How long?""The fuck should I know, pal? I just deliver them." He took the tablet back from Andy and glanced down at it. "Anyway, that's it for this batch. I'll see you again in a few days, maybe a week or so, with the next one.""The next one?" Andy asked, but the man had already turned and started walking back to a school bus that was idling in the street. "What do you mean the next one?" But the man had already moved on, and either didn't hear Andy or didn't care. Andy suspected it was the latter. Behind him, up the stairs, he heard both his and Eric's bedroom doors shut.He closed the door and locked it, then turned the padlock and put the chain back on. Andy looked over his shoulder, then glanced and Eric, who shrugged. He moved upstairs and knocked on his own bedroom door. "Uh, hello?""Five minutes please!" a voice on the other side of the door said to him.Andy sighed, turned around and walked downstairs. His roommate looked over at him, having just wrapped up his conference call. "She wants five minutes."Eric laughed. "We've been kicked out of our own rooms. Great."Andy moved back over to the couch and picked up his laptop, sitting back down and starting to write again. He was curious, though. Insanely curious about what was happening in his own room. Neither of the cats were complaining so he imagined it couldn't be too bad. His roommate had wrapped up his conference call, but had clearly turned on his music, because Andy could hear the tiny noise flare ups, even though Eric was just wearing earbuds. He did love his death metal loud.He spent a while trying to work but trying to focus felt damn near impossible. He popped into his company's Slack channel, to let them know what was going on.“your partner showed up?” his boss typed. “take the rest of the week off. you're going to be busy“They said they're going to be back later with another delivery. What the hell does that mean?” Andy typed into the channel.“oh shit” his boss typed back. “how big is your bed? queen sized?”“King sized.” Andy replied. “California king, actually. Don't know what difference that makes though. The news said one partner per person.”“u have a king bed tho” his boss replied. “did the site ask u the polyamory question?”“Yeah” Andy typed. “I put no preference”“shit” came the reply. “okay take off the rest of the week and let me know when you get another partner and we can do the same again as many times as you get partners”“Wait. What? How many partners can they give me?”“depends on what level the tester gave you”“He said level 5. He was a fan of my novels so I gave him a signed copy of the new one”“Oh, shit” his boss answered. “then u can be assigned up to 4 partners with Cali king bed”“Now you're just fucking with me” Andy sent back with a laugh.“noshit my dude” his boss answered. “ok we play it by ear then but dont check out any new tasks until monday, k?”“Am I still getting paid for the time?”“new partner adaptation time dude its all covered”“Okay then, I guess.”“level 5, L O L, u fucking suck” his boss typed. “u dont deserve that level of woman”“Wait. What do you mean?”“LOL u didn't read how the levels system work fuck u go enjoy winning the lottery”And with that, his boss set Andy's status to Out Of Office.From upstairs he heard both pairs of doors open, although he didn't think either of them opened fully. "I'm going to take a shower if that's okay with Eric," a voice called down."He's in the zone working, so that should be fine," Andy called up."Thank you!" And then Eric's bedroom door closed again."Okay Andy, come on up," a different voice said. "But close the bedroom door behind you, okay?" And then his own bedroom door shut.His work day was done. He found himself a little nervous at the idea of going into his own room, but he realized waiting wasn't going to make it any easier. Time to face the music. He pushed his laptop back into his laptop bag, zipped it up and set it on the coffee table.Andy walked up the stairs and came to his bedroom door. It was odd, staring at this side of his bedroom door. He knocked on the door, and a soft giggle came from the other side. "You don't need to knock, silly. It's your room. Come on in."He wasn't entirely sure what he expected to find behind the door. But he did as he was told to do, opening the door, stepping in and closing the door behind him.Sitting on his bed was a lovely redheaded woman in her mid to late twenties. He suspected the coppery color of her hair was natural as he could see a generous dusting of freckles on her cheeks and arms. She had it done up in a sporty ponytail that hung down to the small of her back. Instead of all the layers he'd seen her in just a few minutes ago, she was dressed now in simply a sports bra, a pair of booty shorts and a pair of thigh high leather boots. She had her hands behind her on the bed to thrust her perky tits up in his direction. She was fit, pale, strikingly beautiful, and had a playful smile on her face."Hallo Andy," she said, an Irish tinge to her voice. "My name's Aisling. It's pronounced Ashling, but spelled A i s l i n g. I'm from Dublin, but after I finished uni, I got a job out here working as a graphic designer. I'm your new partner. I hope I'm to your liking.""Oh!" Andy said, as if the whole situation was just dawning on him. "Oh, I'm "Aisling couldn't contain herself any longer and sat up and rushed him, throwing her arms around, clinging to him firmly. "We can touch," she moaned into his ear. "Touch! It's been so fucking long since I touched anybody. And I'm going to touch the fuck out of you nonstop, you beautiful bastard."He was slightly taken aback at how tightly she was holding him. "I mean, you don't have to ""I don't have to do any fucking thing I don't want to," she whispered into his ear. "But it is taking every bit of willpower I have not to drop to my fucking knees and rip those pants right off you. Because that's what I desperately want to do right now."Andy could feel her nipples pressed firmly against his chest through the sports bra, and her breath was hot against his skin. "Wah, why?""We've been in isolation for months," Aisling said as her hand grabbed onto his ass through his jeans. "They gave us injections to help us build our immune system against the virus, but they said it was going to stoke our libidos a bit. God, wasn't that a fucking understatement." She nibbled on his earlobe for a moment. "They showed me twenty pictures of men with a bit of description beneath each of them on what they wanted and didn't want, and I picked you."His hand moved along the small of her back, trying to keep it from going anywhere inappropriate, but she reached behind herself to grab his arm by the wrist and push his hand down onto her ass, which invoked another moan from her. "Why did you pick me?""You like gingers, which I am obviously. I'll be sure to show you it's natural in just a smidge," she said with a smile. "But you like both submissive and aggressive women, and I can be both. You're open to polyamory. I like both men and women, and I know that polyamorous men with large beds get multiple partners, so that's something to look forward to. I consider myself a switch, so I'm looking forward to having another girl to play with, one I can order around a bit." Andy started to try and pull his hand upward a bit, and she rubbed her hips forward a bit more insistently. "If you're lifting that hand up, it'd better be to slip it under my shorts onto my bare ass.""Is, is that what you want?""For an appetizer," she purred. "But you know what made me want you most of all?"Andy lifted his hand just to the top of her booty shorts, hesitating for just a second before he slid his fingertips beneath the hem of them. He realized he must've been hesitating a bit too long, because she reached back and pushed his hand down firmly until he had a full handful of toned butt in his grasp. "What's that?""Out of that long, long list of sexual turn ons and offs, the thing you put that turned you on the most, was dirty talk," she practically moaned at him. "I fucking love dirty talk. I am an absolutely filthy little slut. No," she giggled, licking her tongue along the shell of his ear, "I'm your filthy little slut now. I am going to beg you to fuck me stupid over and over again. I can't wait to suck on that cock of yours, to make you fuck my face until there are tears rolling down my eyes and I can't breathe. God, that makes my little cunt clench. It's tight, too. I've only fucked two guys before, and each of them only a couple of times. But you are going to fucking plow that gash of mine so much I may have to etch your name into it. You are going to fuck your little whore so much that you fall asleep inside of my cunt more often than not, and wake up to me sucking your cock clean to get you ready for another round." She turned around in his arms, which made his hand slide up to her stomach, her head leaning against his shoulder. "Here," she said, taking his hand on her belly, pushing it down the front of her shorts. "Feel just how sopping wet a bitch you own now, sir. Should be it sir? Master?" She giggled a little, wiggling her eyebrows. "Daddy?"Andy stuttered for a second, as his fingertips pushed through a small strip of hair before reaching the most drenched snatch he'd ever felt. "Fuck, you are soaked,”"Umm," she said with a nod. "So I'll just use all three then.""Not,” Andy sputtered, "not in front of my roommate.""The other guy? Oh, he's going to be more than a little distracted. I talked with Lily a little bit on the way over here “ Lily's the girl waiting for him in his room “ and she's more worked up than I am. And your roommate likes them to be a little dominant with him, so I don't think he'll have time to say anything, but if it makes you feel better, sir, I'll just call you Andy when we're out in the common areas. Or honey or baby. Something innocuous. As long as you're going to hold up your end of our deal.""My end?" Andy said, as he pushed a fingertip inside of Aisling's drenched cunt, feeling her clench down on it as she shivered slightly."You owe me one load of spunk every fucking day," she said, grabbing his other hand to push it up and under her sports bra to cup her tit, feeling how hard her nipple was against his palm. "I don't give a shite where you put it “ on my face, down my throat, across my tits, up my cunt, you can even stuff it up my virgin asshole, something I can't wait to feel the first time “ but you don't fall asleep at night without making sure I got my daily dose of your jizz. Think you can live up to that?""God, I hope so," he said, lifting her bra up to her collarbone, as her hands moved to pull it up and over her head, tossing it aside. "You really want that?"Aisling giggled again, a sound that sent shivers up Andy's spine every time. "I honestly can't wait to get started, Master. I want you to fuck me so bad, I can feel it trickling down my thighs. You've got yourself a needy little slut on your hands. How do you want our first time to be?"Andy's hand slid up from her shorts and brought his fingertips to his lips, licking them clean, seeing her nuzzling her face against his neck, so he offered his pointer finger to her, which she wrapped her lips around and suckled hard on before letting it pop from her mouth. "You were going to prove to me you were ginger, weren't you?""Hmm, I'm sure you can see the freckles all over my tits," she said, crossing her arms at the wrists in front of her to push them together and up towards his eyes. "But you want to be sure you've got an honest slut on your hands, hmm? Boots off or on, you think?""The boots are dead sexy, but let's have them off.""You like them though, yeah?" she asked as she put one foot up on his bed, and started unzipping one of the boots."Oh yes, they're fantastic. A lot of forethought in thinking to bring them.""We were allowed to made a list of things to get packed up for us, so I've got all sorts of little surprises in my wheelie bag, but I'll tell you one, I've got a plaid skirt in there, back from my days at Mercy College. Every man around the world loves a schoolgirl." She pulled her other boot off and set it on the floor next to its companion. Then she unbuttoned the front button of her jean shorts, unzipping them before bending forward over the corner of Andy's bed. She pushed the shorts slowly over the curve of her ass and down her thighs before stepping out of them, leaving her in a tiny silky red thong. "Like the view?""God you're fit. I feel like a bit of fat man in your presence, I'm afraid.""Don't you worry, lad," she purred. "You and I are going to be doing a lot of exercise." She slid on her belly further onto the bed and then rolled onto her back. "I'll fuck you back thin, daddy." Aisling pulled her thighs back to her chest, reached down and drew her thong up along her legs. As soon as she lifted the fabric upward, Andy got his first view of her cunt, and she was glistening. With her ankles to the side of her head, she drew the thong off and tossed it to the side before spreading her legs wide. True to her word, there was a neat shaved triangle of copper curls just above her snatch. "See? Ginge minge. Now what're you gonna do about it?""Aren't you sweet as candy?" Andy slowly crawled onto the bed next to her. He didn't have shoes to kick off “ he'd barely put them on since the lockdown began. "You're down for anything?"Aisling rolled onto her side. "You want the first time to be something particular? How sweet. What did you have in mind?""Something simple. So you can show me what you like. You on top. That okay?" Andy said as he pulled his shirt up and over his head.She giggled a little bit, reaching a fingertip over to brush it along his chest. "Tattoos? You're full of surprises. I wouldn't have pegged you as a man with ink." Andy had a tattoo of a griffon starting on his right pectoral going down to his stomach, done in an elaborate and detailed style. It had been the better part of two days worth of work ten years ago. "I like the look of it, though. And if you want our first time to be me riding you, I say giddyup partner. Any other surprises down here I should be looking forward to?" Her fingertip moved to smooth down over the swell of his cock through his jeans."You can have a looksee for yourself after you do one more thing," Andy said, with a little laugh."Tell me what it is, so I can see the thing that's going to change my life." She was rubbing the palm of her hand firmly against that buldge now, her eyes looking down at her hand before bringing those green eyes up to meet his gaze, a girlish smile on her lips. "Stop teasing and tell me.""I've never shown my cock to girl I haven't kissed before," he said with a wry smile. "I don't intend to stay"Andy didn't even finish getting the sentence before Aisling had crawled all over him, pressing her lips to his. The kiss was intense, more intense than he'd ever remembered before. It came on strong and kept getting stronger, her lips parting after several seconds to let her tongue slip into his mouth and spiral around in a hungry dance. After a few minutes of making out like a couple of teenagers, she pulled back just an inch or so. "God, I hadn't realized how much I missed kissing someone. You're a great kisser." She pressed her lips against his once more and this time didn't wait to push her tongue in. After a few more minutes, she pulled back again. "That what you wanted?"He laughed softly. "You really want to see it, don't you?""See it, touch it, taste it, fuck it. I want to do everything you can think of with that cock, and once we're done with all of that, we can do it all over again." Her fingertips plucked at the button of his jeans, popping them undone. "Can I see it now, daddy?""I'm no porn star, Aisling, so I wouldn't get your hopes up," he said. "But yes, you can see it." He felt her drawing down his zipper and lifted his hips up so she could tug his jeans down and off, but she made a point of grabbing his boxers with them. "See? Not any longer than the average man.""Jaysus," she said quietly, "maybe not any longer, but certainly thicker. A lot thicker. That is a great big fat ol' cock you got there, Master." Her voice was one continuous purr as her slender fingers wrapped around the base of his cock and started to slowly stroke it. "Thicker than any cock I've ever had inside of me. Can I?""Hop aboard." The whole thing felt vaguely dreamlike. He wasn't sure she was real, wasn't sure any of this was real. He half expected to wake up and for everything to disappear at any moment. But that didn't happen."Gladly," she said, as she straddled one leg over his hips. She snaked a hand between them to grab the base of his cock, angling it properly, setting the tip against wet snatch before sinking down onto it with one continuous motion. As soon as her hips touched down against his, his cock bottoming out inside of her cunt, he felt her entire body slump forward atop him in a colossal shiver, her cunt spasming and clenching on his shaft. A tiny moan burbled from her lips, one that bubbled over into a breathy laugh against his neck, desperate and delirious. "Fer fuck sake. I've never cum that hard in my entire fucking life, and you just put the fucking thing inside of me. Nothing more. Just from putting him in.""Do you want to stop?""Are you out of your fucking mind?" she giggled, placing both of her hands on Andy's chest. "I haven't gotten my daily nut yet, daddy. And your girl wants what's coming to her. And by hook or by crook, she will fucking having it." Her arms pressed together to push her tits out even more, as she started to snake her hips backwards only to thrust them forward again. "It's been two years since I got properly fucked last. How long's it been for you?""You'll only laugh at me," Andy said with a slight frown."I promise I won't," she purred. "Has it been longer?""A lot longer.""How long?""Over a decade."She leaned down and kissed him again, this time a bit more softly and tenderly. "Well, you're never going to go a day in your life without fucking ever again, so it'll be alright." She had a magical way of swaying atop of him, shimmying back and forth on his cock. Her body ground down onto him over and over, sweat glistening off her freckled pale skin.His hands latched onto her hips, trying mostly to hold on. His fingertips clenched onto her smooth skin, pressing her down a little more than she'd been trying to push onto his cock, as if he felt like he wanted to contribute something to her effort."C'mon. Make me your girl, claim your whore, daddy," she whimpered, her face looming over his. "I wanna feel it. Gimme that cum. Own me. Own me. Cum in her tight little cunt. Paint it. Take it. Fucking own me, Master. Own. Me."Just outside of his room, he heard Eric's door open and then slam shut again, but it was only a momentary distraction, as Aisling continued to bear down on him, her ass slamming against the top of his thighs.It wasn't long before he could feel that release building up on him, and much sooner than he'd have liked, his body was shuddering in the throes of an orgasm as he started to spew hot cum inside of her tight young twat. As soon as he started to orgasm, however, it was almost like Aisling had been struck by lightning, her whole body violently shaking as a guttural sound was wrenched from her throat, primal and whorish, before her body collapsed on top of him, her body trembling for a long moment before she lay still atop of him.After a few minutes, he slowly moved her to one side of him so he could slip out from under her. She was completely unconscious, and he was almost certain he could her hear whispering nigh imperceptibly the word 'imprinting' over and over again.He didn't want to wake her, so he went and showered, then headed downstairs to grab himself a bit of dinner. The two cats sat at the foot of his bed, peering at the unconscious redhead in his bed, wondering what the hell was going on.The madness had barely even gotten started.Chapter 3When Andy woke up the next morning, he was almost certain he'd been dreaming yesterday. But he felt an odd sensation and lifted his head to look down. There he saw Aisling's coppery ponytail bouncing over his crotch. And he could feel her lips sealed around his cock, as she continued to face fuck herself on his shaft.Andy had never woken up to being blown before, and it certainly was a delightful experience. He tried to pull her head up, to give her a break, but she reached up and pressed his hand away with her own, a delightful little giggle rolling from her lips onto his cock.He thrust his hips towards her face because it seemed like the thing she wanted him to do, and sure enough, she kept pushing her head down again and again. She wasn't letting up until she got what she needed.In the end, resistance was futile.His body tensed up and his back arched as he felt her lips around the base of his cock, the head lodged in her throat as he started to spew cum. When he did, he could feel her body shake and quiver against his thigh.A few minutes later, both of them had regained their composure, and she'd snuggled up alongside him, her face nestled in the crook of his neck as she laughed almost deliriously. "It's actually true. The taste of your cum gives me an orgasm. Each and every time, harder than I'd ever known before I met you," she purred. "You really do fuckin' own me, daddy.""You say that," Andy said, "but eventually you'll get bored of me, and you'll come to resent me, resent being attached to me like this."She rolled over a little bit, pressing one of her arms against his chest as she shook her head, a crooked smile on her lips. "I woke up in the middle of the night and looked around the room while you were asleep. There are bookcases everywhere. My first boyfriend was a footie player who dreamed of going pro when he could barely get up in the morning. My second boyfriend? He was a shitty musician who claimed he was being artful when he couldn't carry a tune. You're surrounded by books. Have you read all of them?"Andy shrugged a little. "Maybe half of them. But I like having books around, knowing that when I'm ready for another, it's right there.""See?" she giggled. "I've never been with anyone so smart before. And I've never been with someone who'll let me be myself and not force me to hide it.""Hide what?""What an absolute slut I am," she said, kissing his neck. "Your absolute slut, if I'm honest." She wasn't trying to wind him up, just more of delighting in learning all the nooks and crannies of his body. "And I don't have to pretend I'm a good Catholic girl who'd never let a boy put his hand up her skirt when I'd rather be bent over getting my tight young gash plowed. You'll have to do that next, have me on my hands and knees, your good little proper bitch."Andy laughed. "You sound rather eager for that."" Umm," she mumbled, nibbling on his ear, "you want me to beg again?""Let me do it later," he said. "We should get up, shower, and we should meet our new roommates.""I talked to Lily a bit on the ride over. I'll tell you about it in the shower."Each of the bedrooms in the condo had an attached bathroom so they didn't even have to get dressed to get up and move to the bathroom. She scooted ahead of him quickly, and he could see the inside of her thighs were damp as she climbed out of the bed and moved into the bathroom.It was the first time he'd had a woman in his bathroom in a decade, and so he was a little embarrassed about the state of it. "Of course you don't have a hair dryer," Aisling giggled, as she ran her fingertips over Andy's shaved head. He'd started developing a bald spot in his mid twenties, so he'd been shaving his head every since then. "Don't worry, I've got one in my suitcase. Speaking of which, you're going to need to give me one drawer in that dresser to myself. That okay?""You're really in this for the long haul, aren't you?" He turned on the water in the shower as he closed the top of the toilet.She leaned in and folded her hands behind his neck, pressing her body up against his. "What did I tell you? You. Own. Me." She kissed him briefly in between each of the last three words. "But that means you belong to me as well. Whenever you go, I go. And I need to take care of you. And you need to take care of me.""I can clear out a drawer for you, no problem, Aisling.""See? It's not that hard to pronounce, is it?""But hey, this is your bathroom now too, so feel free to make it home.""Oo!" she said suddenly and darted back out into the bedroom. Andy could hear her unzipping her little suitcase before she sprinted back in, a giant tricolor beach towel which she set on top of the toilet. It didn't even take him half a second to recognize it was the colors of Ireland's flag. "Little bit of the home country. Now let's get wet. I've never taken a shower with another person before." She lifted her fingers and pressed them against his hair chest, almost shoving him back into the shower.It was rather a long shower, where they got dirty before they got clean again.About forty minutes later, they'd both gotten dried off and dressed and headed downstairs, Aisling bringing her laptop bag with her. Sitting on the couch was a Japanese woman dressed in sweatpants and a baggy t shirt typing away on her laptop while Eric was sitting at his desk on the other side of the room."Andy, meet Lily," Eric said to Andy as he walked down the stairs. "She's my new partner.""S'up," Lily said, not even looking up from her typing."She's kinda in the zone right now. She's a coder with DoorDash.""We talked a bit on the ride over here," Aisling said. "Hi, I'm Aisling. I'm Andy's first partner.""First?" Lily said, stopping typing and looking up and over her shoulder at them as they reached the bottom of the stairs.Andy scowled. "She didn't mean it like that. I wasn't a virgin."Lily snickered a bit. "I know. I'm fucking with you," she said, looking back down to her laptop. "So how was he Ash?""Fucking amazing," Aisling said. "How about yours?""I have a name you know," Eric said."Good but not great," Lily said. "But I'll train him to be the best ever. Best for me, anyway.""Hi Eric," Aisling said, shaking Eric's hand. "Nice to meet you.""I cleared off the dining room table behind Andy's desk to give you a bit of work space, Ash," Eric said. "Lily said you're an artist?""Graphic designer for Alphabet."Andy cocked his head as he and Aisling started to cross the living room, heading towards the dining room. "I didn't know you were a Googler.""I'm a contractor for them, so they don't really consider me a Googler," she sighed. "They might move me from contract to full time at some point, but it's just as likely they're going to just keep giving me new contracts over and over again.""Welcome to life in Silicon Valley," Andy laughed. "Everything's forever, for exactly five minutes."Aisling pulled her laptop out of her bag and set it on the table, noticing the box pushed off to one side. "Blake Conrad, huh?" she said, taking a book out from the box. "My older brother loves these books, but I've never read any of them. Are you a big fan?"From the other room, Eric couldn't help but laugh. "Go on!" he yelled at Andy. "Tell her."Andy rolled his eyes. "Look inside the back flap."Aisling took the hardcover and opened to the back of it, looking at the inside flap where Andy's picture peered back at her. "Wait, are you Blake Conrad?""It's a pen name.""Oh my god! I'm shagging Dermot's favorite pen!" she giggled. "I can't wait to phone him and tell him.""Mmm. I can even autograph a copy of the new one for him and you can mail it out to him, as long as he's not going to be mad that I'm sleeping with his sister."Aisling pulled out a Wacom tablet from her laptop as well as a power cord, plugging it into the wall. "Andy. You're a bloody hero to him. He'll be over the moon.""He's not going to be upset that you're shacking up with a guy you just met? Or that he's going to have, other women?"Aisling kissed him for a long moment, soft and tender. "You're sweet, Andy. But this is the way the world works now. And you're a good man, so Dermot'll be happy that I didn't end up with someone crazy or ugly.""Oh, you don't think I'm ugly?" Andy grinned impishly, as Aisling pushed him back down into his desk chair."Look fella," she teased. "If I thought you were ugly, I'd have said so. Now don't you have work to get to or something?"Andy turned on his computer and the two monitors on his desk sprung to life. "Well, yeah, but theoretically I'm on new partner leave, so I don't really have to be working."She stuck her tongue out at him. "Well, I don't get any such luxury as a contractor, so I need to get some work done today. How does a novelist get partner leave anyway?"He sighed a little. "That's just my side hustle. My day job is as a marketing writer for Netflix."Aisling's face scrunched up in cute confusion. "The books don't pay enough?""Not until they get optioned, which my agent seems to think will happen eventually, but hasn't yet.""I'll have to read them then." Andy tried to mask the look of surprise on his face, but apparently wasn't great at concealing it. "What? I said I hadn't read them, not that I didn't want to read them.""Fair enough!" Andy grabbed his headphones and pulled them onto his head, clicking on iTunes to bring up his music. He wasn't allowed to check out new tasks for his day job, so he figured he might as well get a bit of writing in on his next novel.After a few minutes, Aisling tapped him on the shoulder, so he pulled the headphones off. "What's up?""What're you listening to?""Right now? Post rock band called God Is An Astronaut, but I usually just put my music on shuffle and let it ride.""Can I listen too?"Andy nodded. "Sure, as long as you've got headphones with a long cable and a USB plug.""Certainly do!" she said, holding out the cable.He plugged her in, did a few clicks on his computer, and then they were both listening to his music, just a few feet apart.Andy found it a little hard to focus on his writing, so he decided to take a bit of time to read up on the level system. His boss seemed to know a lot more about it, so he figured it didn't hurt to see what was coming down the pipeline.The virus, it seemed, was hitting the coasts hardest, with N Y C being the biggest disaster area, but the Silicon Valley wasn't far behind. Isolation was the best path, but the bodies were still piling up, so the country was looking to build some stability into people's lives. That meant pairing the single people up. Men were dying at a significantly higher rate than women to the virus, so protecting them had become extremely important. The virus had a mortality rate that was fifty times higher in men than it was in women.Because of that fact alone, it had been determined that virus free men would be ranked on a scale of one to five in terms of their importance to society, and that the higher a man was ranked, the more that person's personal needs would be tended to. So level 1s, which it seemed like was most people, would simply be given the barest amount of effort to find someone to pair with their basic desires. 80% of the men were classified as level ones. Level twos were essential, low risk workers such as construction engineers, clerks, judges and the like. Level three was law enforcement. Level four was figures of high impact. Mark Zuckerberg would've supposedly been a level four if he wasn't already married, one article said. Level five was the front liners in the fight in the virus and those who had made extraordinary contributions to society. They made up a fractional amount of people in the pool, less than half of one percent.A kind of hushed up mythology had been built up around level fives from what Andy could find on the internet. There were stories of emergency doctors who were on the best of days a six in any woman's estimate getting partnered up with women who would never be any less than a ten.Andy scoffed a little bit until he started looking at some of the pictures, and noticed that there were endless pictures of ER doctors and genetics researchers with women way, way, way, way out of their leagues.It was on the fifth collection of photos he spotted a familiar face. There was Dave, the man who'd tested them just a few short days ago, with his arm around a Hispanic knockout who couldn't have been pressed closer to him. And in the group shot with Dave, there were nearly a dozen other similar pairings of schlep and stunner.Once paired, men were being kept in isolation for an indeterminate amount of time. They were allowed to go out for walks, but had to keep fifteen feet away from anyone else. They weren't even permitted to go into stores to go shopping. Andy and Eric had been living on food delivery for weeks now. They'd even had groceries delivered and left on their doorstep. The receipt said the person who delivered them was named Silva, but neither Andy nor Eric had seen them. Andy wondered which of the two women would volunteer to go and get groceries first.During the middle of the day, Eric wanders over to take their orders as he placed a food delivery, but none of them had any chance to talk until dinner, which they also had delivered. Lily got free deliveries working for DoorDash, apparently, so both lunch and dinner had been brought that way."So how did you guys meet?" Lily asked as she was bringing in the bag of food that had been left on their doorstep.Eric laughed. "You want to tell them or should I?"Andy waved his hand, turning his desk chair around so it was up against the dining room table. "You're looking forward to it, so you tell them."Eric grinned as Lily started to take the food “ cheesesteaks it seemed “ and put it out on the table. "He was trying to bang my sister.""I was trying to date your sister," Andy said as Aisling giggled. "There's a difference.""Date her so you could fuck her, let's be clear."Andy rolled his eyes. "That was over a decade ago, so it's probably time to let it go.""She's married and lives in Florida down with her husband and their four kids, so we never really see her much anymore," Eric said."But Eric needed a roommate and I needed a place to live, so I moved into his spare room, and we've been flatmates since then," Andy said. "Aisling's from Dublin, but are you local Lily?""Second generation Bay Area native," Lily said as Eric set a beer in front of her. "My parents live up in Petaluma these days. Are your parents still around here, Eric?""They retired and moved down to Santa Cruz, although they spend half their time out in Florida with their grandkids. I'll introduce you to them over Facetime when they call next.""They going to be happy you hooked up with a Japanese woman?""They'll be happy I'm happy," Eric said. "Beyond that, I don't think they care.""What about you, Andy? You got local family?"Andy shook his head. "I'm from Ohio originally, but I've been out here for longer than I was there. My dad died a few years back, but my mom's still out there, as is my older brother with his wife and their son.""How old's your nephew?" Aisling asked."Conner will be 11 in July. I generally go back every year for Christmas, but this year seems like that's probably out."The Irish girl cocked her head slightly. "How much older is your brother?""Nine years older than me.""No siblings in between?""Nope," Andy said. "You said you have an older brother named Dermot. That your only sibling?"Aisling almost snorted she laughed so suddenly. "Jaysis no. Dermot's the eldest, then me, then my sisters Aoife and Niamh, and the last one is my baby brother Colin, who's about as old as your nephew. What about you, Lily?""Only child, thank fuck," she grumbled. "So, Andy, I understand Aisling's not going to be your only partner. What makes you think you deserve more than one partner, hmm?"Andy raised a hand defensively. "Hey now, I never said I deserve anything.""She's fucking with you, love," Aisling said, poking him with a grin."Spoil sport," Lily said, sticking her tongue out. "I don't really care as long as you're not going to take a pass at me.""You're Eric's partner, Lily. I'm going to respect that.""Good, and I'll make sure he keeps his hands off your girls.""I would never " Eric started to say before Lily raised a finger in his direction and he felt silent."Good boy," Lily said with a smirk. "I'll get him trained yet."Andy had never seen Eric get cowed quite so severely before, but he could swear his flatmate was blushing a little."I'm actually looking forward to seeing who else we get to play with," Aisling said."How many names should I expect to have to learn?" Lily asked."It's a fookin' huge bed, Lil," Aisling giggled. "So I expect a few more.""What I was reading about on the internet says I'm supposed to share my bed with four partners," Andy said, "but that can't possibly be right can it?""Umm. I can't wait," Aisling purred.She didn't have long to wait.To be continued in part 2, by CorruptingPower for Literotica.

This special bonus episode of William Hill's The Square Ball is coming to a little earlier than usual this week. Co-host of The Square Ball Ashling Thompson was in studio this week and with the postponement of Saturday's Munster Senior Camogie Final on Saturday, in which Ashling's Cork team were due to compete, she shared her thoughts on the decision and what comes next.Normal service will resume on Thursday with another episode dropping!

Dress for the slide, not for the ride - Jayne's biking gear saved her life in a crash, The big pivot - Ashling is about to become a train driver - all because of doom scrolling.. 7 year old Alfie - Irelands youngest Eurovision expert & lots more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kilkenny great Tommy Walsh is the star in the chair on The Square Ball, powered by William Hill, this week. Listening to Dave rattling off his accomplishments at the start of the interview is a firm reminder that Tommy Walsh is hurling royalty.This is The Man, The Myth, The Legend - Tommy Walsh on The Square Ball, powered by William Hill.Don't forget to like and subscribe, and do leave us a comment about guests you'd like to see this season. 00:00 - Introduction and Ashling chat07:10 - Tommy Walsh interview12:00 - His love of the game20:00 - His first time on the Kilkenny panel28:30 - Playing his first All-Ireland Final33:00 - The Cork Rivalry41:00 - The Drive for Five45:50 - The Brian Gavin Incident50:00 - The 2014 season1:04:00 - Retirement

In dieser Episode bespreche ich das Buch "OMG, diese Aishling" von Sarah Breen und Emer McLysaght, das mir besonders ins Auge gefallen ist. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die 28-jährige Ashling, die in ihrem Heimatort Baligobot bei ihren Eltern wohnt und von der großen Liebe träumt. Trotz ihrer romantischen Vorstellungen läuft es in ihrer Beziehung zu John nicht wie erhofft. Als sie schließlich den Entschluss fasst, sich von ihm zu trennen, zieht sie nach Dublin zu ihrer neuen Mitbewohnerin Sadhbh, wo sie in eine Welt voller Glamour und unerwarteter Herausforderungen eintaucht. Ich teile meine Eindrücke und reflektiere über die vielen Themen, die das Buch aufgreift, wie Freundschaft, Trauer und die Komplexität von Beziehungen. Zu Beginn war ich skeptisch, ob dieser Frauenroman etwas für mich ist, doch beim Lesen habe ich viele Gemeinsamkeiten entdeckt, die über Geschlechter- und Altersgrenzen hinweggehen. Die Erlebnisse, die Aishling in Bezug auf romantische Reisen und ihre zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen macht, erscheinen mir sehr nachvollziehbar, da ich aus meiner Perspektive als Hochzeits-DJ bereits viele solcher Geschichten gehört habe. Besonders berührend fand ich die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hirntumor von Aishlings Vater, die mich stark an persönliche Erfahrungen mit meiner eigenen Familie erinnerte. Diese Passagen haben mich emotional mitgerissen und meine eigene Trauer verstärkt reflektieren lassen. Es ist beeindruckend, wie die Autorinnen solche tiefen seelischen Themen so authentisch und verletzlich in eine unterhaltsame Erzählung integrieren konnten. Mein Fazit fällt positiv aus: "OMG, diese Aishling" ist nicht nur eine amüsante Lektüre, die zum Lachen anregt, sondern auch eine, die zum Nachdenken anregt und einen Spiegel vorhält. Auch wenn das Buch für ein weiblicheres Publikum und eine jüngere Altersklasse geschrieben ist, glaube ich, dass sich viele Leser, unabhängig von Geschlecht und Alter, mit Aishling identifizieren können. Das Potenzial zur Selbstreflexion und die Möglichkeit, über eigene Erfahrungen zu schmunzeln, machen dieses Buch zu einem wertvollen und unterhaltsamen Begleiter. Es ist der erste Band einer Reihe und kann noch immer als E-Book für 6,99 Euro im DTV Imprint erworben werden.

Series 3 Episode 1 of Series of Teacher Talk with the INTO: ‘Getting to Grips with Your Career Break or Job Share'In this episode, we're joined by Ashling Lynch, an Official at the INTO and Norah Daly, a teacher from Scoil Mhuire in Tullamore, Co Offaly, who took a career break to travel. Norah shares her personal journey of stepping away from the classroom on a career break and her transition back to teaching while Ashling explains how the different schemes work.What we'll explore:· What exactly is a career break, and how can teachers apply?· Key dates and deadlines to keep in mind when considering a career break or job sharing.· Norah's experience: From deciding to take a break to adjusting back into the teaching world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can we write from the perspective of others while still respecting different cultures? How can a children's book author make money from bulk sales? How is self-publishing in South Africa different? With Ashling McCarthy. In the intro, Spotify for Authors and Katie Cross on self-narration and email marketing; How do I know when to […] The post Writing The Other And Self-Publishing in South Africa With Ashling McCarthy first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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Jim-Jim tells us of an interesting security systemHow well do you know the show 'Friends' Ashling is todays player of FM104's ins2grand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Got Points?We're so excited you're here to begin your own Travel Hacking journey. Our goal is to help you reach your travel goals: whether that be to travel more often (like Ashling) or to travel in better style (like Tiffani). In this episode, we'll be tackling the 4 necessary prerequisite skills to begin travel hacking!Anyone who is just getting started with using credit card points should start here to make sure they have the skills needed to make this hobby an amazing one!For detailed episode notes, resources, and info about help with your points, join our email list at this link.We're here to make this process simpler, and our added resources will help you with just that!

Tiffani and Ashling here! Here to show you what is not only possible in travel, but that YOU can make it happen for yourselves.In just 8 episodes, we will teach you how to build up points and how to best use those points to plan ANY trip.Whether you're a comfort traveler, looking for luxury experiences (like Tiffani), or looking to push your points as far as they can go (like Ashling), we've got the tips, strategies, and info to make your travel dreams a reality.Come back on July 9 for our release of episode 1-4, then weekly after that.It's time to get you out and exploring, while using points to pay for it!To access full notes, resources, and the Unlimited POINTS subscription, click here. We are not licensed financial advisors. Any and all information expressed through podcasts, social media postings, and/or e-mail correspondence is for informational and educational purposes only. This includes but is not limited to opinions, views, ideas, suggestions, and commentaries. All content is of a general nature and does not specifically address the circumstances of any individual person. No information should be construed as financial advice. For detailed episode notes, resources, and info about help with your points, join our email list at this link.We're here to make this process simpler, and our added resources will help you with just that!

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Connect with Ashling O'Connor on LinkedIn! Checkout SkillTribe.io Connect with Paul M. Caffrey on LinkedIn. FREE!! Get 5 Scripts to help you 5x your Pipeline here. Get your copy of "The Work Before the Work, The Hidden Habits Elite Sales Professionals Use to Outperform the Competition." Takeaways Perform well in your current role before seeking a promotion or a new job opportunity. Find your niche within the software sales industry and focus on areas where you have positive momentum and passion. Tailor your CV to highlight relevant skills, results, and recognition that sales managers are looking for. Frame challenges and adversity in a positive light during interviews to demonstrate resilience and growth. Summary In this conversation, Aisling O'Connor from skilltribe.io shares insights on preparing for job interviews and advancing in a sales career. She emphasizes the importance of being ready for the next step by performing well in your current role and seeking opportunities for growth. Aisling also provides practical advice on finding your niche in the software sales industry and tailoring your CV to stand out to sales managers. She highlights the significance of framing challenges and adversity in a positive light during interviews. In this conversation, Ashling O'Connor shares valuable insights and tips for job seekers and sales professionals. She discusses how to handle being laid off, including taking ownership of the situation and turning it into a positive answer during interviews. Ashling also provides advice on managing LinkedIn profiles, including when to update them and how to optimize them for maximum impact. She shares her number one prospecting tip, which is to focus on knowing who you're going after. Additionally, Ashling emphasizes the importance of focusing on the process rather than the results in sales and offers tips for getting promoted and preparing for interviews.

Tanora coming out of my taps - if only, says John - Irish Water needs to sort it out... Parent and child car spaces - please don't use them if you don't need them....Ashling has become a bit of an expert on Ozempic & lots more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PJ talks to Zac's mum Ashling about the treat Cork City Hospitals Children's Club organized for Cork's greatest little survivor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When 23 year old Ashling Murphy was attacked while on a run in a small town in Ireland, the entire country unified in their sadness and anger that such a young, beautiful soul was taken from the world. Tune in to listen to this disheartening case about a young woman who captured an entire nation. Also, check out the promised links for safety tools that will come in handy while you run. Sources: Wikipedia Wikipedia - CamogieIrish Independent- Ryan's Victim Impact StatementTruly Criminal on YouTube Safety Equipment: For help simply being visible (so you don't get hit by a deer), noxgear comes highly recommended. This pepper spray with a strap to carry while you run. A super loud personal alarm that also flashes when triggered for night time use. This brass knuckle grip taser with an LED light. I hope these suggestions help and as always- stay safe, friends! Music: Big Foot by Gvidon on Pixabay (Go check it out!)

Ashling Murphy was a 23 year old school teacher who was out for a jog in January of 2022, when she was stalked, attacked, and brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight. The case sparked debate , and enhanced modern policing in the area, and was a shock to the area of Tullamore County.   FactorMeals.com/Creeper50 Code: Creeper50   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music(Including track used in this episode): True Crime Guys Music on Spotify   OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com     SOURCES: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67454798 https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/10/19/ashling-murphy-trial-hears-gardai-attempted-cpr-after-finding-body-in-canal-ditch/ https://www.thejournal.ie/ashling-murphy/news/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/jozef-puska-found-guilty-murdering-ashling-murphy-primary-school-teacher-ireland https://www.irishcentral.com/news/ashling-murphy-murdered-daylight-tullamore https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24691121/jozef-puska-ashling-murphy-chilling-cctv-prowl/ https://www.czechjournal.cz/the-chilling-tale-of-a-joggers-murder-in-ireland/ https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/10/19/ashling-murphy-trial-hears-gardai-attempted-cpr-after-finding-body-in-canal-ditch/  

In January 2022, news about the murder of a young teacher in Tullamore, Ireland, would start to ripple through the media. It was soon a case on everyones minds, both in Ireland and much further afield. Every case is horrific, but certain cases leave a lasting and profound impact in huge ways... in ways we have not experienced before. And in the words of the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the case of 23 year old Ashling Murphy has “united the nation in solidarity and revulsion”. https://linktr.ee/trulycriminal1 Sources

Nuacht Mhall. Príomhscéalta na seachtaine, léite go mall. * Inniu an t-ochtú lá déag de mhí na Samhna. Is mise Niall Ó Siadhail. Tharla comhdháil i nGána an tseachtain seo inar tháinig comhaltaí le chéile ón Aontas Afracach agus Cómhargadh Mhuir Chairib, 75 tír san iomlán. Tá sé ar intinn acu seasamh gualainn ar ghualainn chun áitiú ar thíortha Eorpacha cúiteamh a dhíol as coireanna stairiúla, lena n-áirítear an trádáil thrasatlantach sclábhaíochta. Foilseofar Forógra Accra, ina leagfar amach conas a rachaidh an feachtas chun cinn. Ceaptar go mbeidh ráiteas cuimsitheach chun leithscéal a ghabháil le muintir de bhunús Afracach i measc na n-iarratas. Rinne Rí Séarlas III den Ríocht Aontaithe tagairt don stair agus é ar cuairt sa Chéinia le déanaí ach ní dhearna sé leithscéal foirmiúil. Tá eagraíochtaí eile amhail Ollscoil Ghlaschú agus Eaglais Shasana i ndiaidh gealladh go dtabharfaidh siad na milliúin punt chun cúiteamh a dhéanamh i leith coireanna a rinneadh san am atá thart. In Éirinn, tugadh príosún saoil don fhear a dhúnmharaigh an múinteoir bunscoile Ashling Murphy i mí Eanáir 2022. Bhí an bhean óg, a bhí 23 bliana d'aois ag an am, amuigh ag rith in aice le canáil um thráthnóna nuair a rinneadh ionsaí uirthi. Shéan an cosantóir go ndearna sé an choir, in ainneoin go raibh scéalta eile inste aige cheana. Léigh páirtí agus muintir Ashling ráitis tionchair íospartaigh ag an Phríomh-Chúirt Choiriúil Dé hAoine, inar chuir siad in iúl an croíbhriseadh atá orthu ar fad. Meastar go bhfuil foréigean in aghaidh ban ina ghéarchéim anois, agus ocht mbean déag eile maraithe ó fuair Ashling bás. Fógraíodh inné go mbainfear 10 bpointe den chlub sacair Everton mar gheall ar sháruithe ar rialacha a bhaineann le cothromaíocht airgeadais i bpríomhshraith an spóirt i Sasana. Faoi rialacha na sraithe sin, níl cead ag club ar bith níos mó ná £105m a chailleadh sa bhliain, ach tugadh le fios gur chaill an club, atá lonnaithe i Learpholl, beagnach £400m le linn trí bliana. Is é seo an pionós is airde a gearradh ar chlub sa tsraith, ach thiocfadh leis an scéal dul in olcas dóibh mar tá clubanna eile ag bagairt cás dlí a thabhairt ina n-éadan, ós rud é gur cuireadh síos i sraith níos ísle iadsan sa tréimhse chéanna, agus Everton ag fanacht sa phríomhshraith. Cuireadh níos mó ná céad sárú ar na rialacha i leith Manchester City ach níl fíorasc tugtha go fóill.  * Léirithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge i Londain. Tá an script ar fáil i d'aip phodchraolta. * GLUAIS coireanna stairiúla - historic crimes an trádáil thrasatlantach sclábhaíochta - the transatlantic slave trade príosún saoil - life sentence foréigean in aghaidh ban - violence against women cothromaíocht airgeadais - financial fair play príomhshraith - premier league

In this episode, Caroline and Nicola bring you the emotional victim impact statements of Ashling Murphy's partner, sister, and mother. These statements were read in court to Jozef Puska as he was sentenced to life in prison for her murder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode, Caroline and Nicola look ahead to tomorrow's sentencing hearing for Jozef Puska who was found guilty of Ashling Murphy's murder last Thursday. They speak to Defence Barrister Eimear Delargy, who sheds some light on how sentencing in Ireland works and what we can expect tomorrow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Caroline and Nicola chat to Mary McDermott from Safe Ireland about what needs to be done now, in the wake of the conviction of Jozef Puska for Ashling's murder, to enable more women to feel safe - not just walking the streets, but in their homes too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Caroline and Nicola explain more about Jozef Puska's defence, and how he argued crucial CCTV evidence in the case should be thrown out because it breached his right to privacy. We'll also hear from Forensic Psychologist Dr. Ciara Stanton about his possible motivation for the attack on Ashling.Follow The Trial: Ashing Murphy @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Benson, Women's Aid, discusses the Ashling Murphy murder case and the wider issues of violence againt women in Ireland.

Orla O'Donnell, Legal Affairs Correspondent, looks back on the trial of Jozef Puska who was found guilty yesterday of the murder of Ashling Murphy in January 2022.

Vivienne Clarke, local journalist in Tullamore, explains the impact of the Ashling Murphy murder trial on the community.

Today, the jury, after just hours of deliberation, found Jozef Puska guilty of the murder of Ashling Murphy. In this episode, Caroline and Nicola talk about Ashling, what her death means, what this verdict means and what kind of a light this trial has shone on the legal system.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole discuss the conviction after a 16 day trial of Jozef Puska for the brutal murder of Ashling Murphy. He had claimed a man murdered Ashling after attacking him – but the jury rejected his lies. Michael and Paul dissect the case, from the overwhelming amount of evidence against Puska to the killer's bizarre attempt to shift the blame. And they take you behind the scenes, to tell you what it was like covering the case every day. Shattered Lives is a Reach Ireland production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter's brother is struggling with addiction to benzodiazepines. Cormac doesn't think the stricter rules for dog owners will make any difference. Breaking News: Jozef Puska found guilty of murder of Ashling Murphy.

In this episode Caroline and Nicola discuss Justice Tony Hunt's charge to the Jury before he sent them out to begin deliberating their verdict at 15.34 today. In a five hour address to the nine man, three women panel, he broke down the evidence into five parts, confession, DNA, eye witnesses, lies and inferences. As part of this, he read a transcript of Jenna Stack's evidence recounting how she saw Puska crouched over Ashling in a ditch by the Grand Canal. He also read parts of Jozef Puska's testimony when he said he too had been attacked and he was trying to save Ashling.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Caroline and Nicola go over the closing speeches from the Prosecution and from the Defence.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole discuss day 14 in the trial of Jozef Puska, who is charged with murdering Ashling Murphy in Co Offaly last January. He denies the charge. The prosecution case has now finished and Mr Puska has now taken to the stand. Shattered Lives is a Reach Ireland production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Caroline and Nicola discuss the evidence of Jozef Puska who took the stand in his own defence on Thursday. His cross examination by Anne Marie Lawlor concluded on Friday afternoon when she accused him of concocting a pack of lies for the jury, a charge which Puska denied.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole discuss the last two days of evidence in the trial of Jozef Puska, who is charged with murdering Ashling Murphy in Co Offaly last January. He denies the charge. Witnesses included a DNA expert, a doctor who met with the accused in Garda custody and an expert in toxicology and pharmacology. Shattered Lives is a Reach Ireland production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we hear about expert medical evidence which says that Jozef Puska was not under the influence of any drugs when he made his alleged confession on 14 January, two days after Ashling was killed. Emeritus Professor Michael Ryan of University College Dublin also pointed out that the abdominal surgery which Puska underwent on the previous day was not ‘major surgery' but was a keyhole diagnostic procedure.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Caroline and Nicola go over what the court heard from witnesses that say Josef Puzka allegedly admitted from his hospital bed to killing Ashling Murphy.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Healy speaks to Michael O'Toole about the latest in the trial of Jozef Puska, who stands accused of the murder of Ashling Murphy. Mr Puska denies the charge. The jury today heard the evidence of Mr Puska's translator who acted to interpret an alleged confession by Mr Puska. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael O'Toole speaks to Paul Healy from court after a dramatic day of evidence in the murder trial of Jozef Puska, who stands accused of the murder of Ashling Murphy. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Caroline and Nicola bring you the evidence the court heard about data on Ashling's fitbit recorded the moment she was allegedly attacked. We also hear about a woman who told the court that Josef Puzka followed her to the canal minutes before he allegedly attacked and killed Ashling Murphy.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Healy discusses the latest developments in the trial of Jozef Puska, who denies murdering Offaly schoolteacher Ashling Murphy. Paul reports from court, with Michael O'Toole discussing the case with him. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Healy reports from court about the trial of Jozef Puska, on trial for the murder of Ashling Murphy. Michael O'Toole discusses the case with Paul, as paramedics and further witnesses were called to the stand. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second episode of The Trial, Ashling Murphy, Caroline and Nicola discuss the testimony of Jenna Stack who came across Jozef Puska and Ashling Murphy in the ditch at Grand Canal way, Tullamore minutes before she died. They also recap a harrowing week for the Murphy family which included hearing post mortem evidence that Ashling's voice box was cut during an attack which saw her receive 11 stab wounds which ultimately caused her death. The jury also heard evidence this week from garda Tom Dunne who took the 999 call at Tullamore Garda station and was the first first policeman at the scene - he and his colleague performed CPR on Ashling for at least ten minutes but to no avail.Follow The Trial: Ashling Murphy on Twitter @TheTrialPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy discuss day five of the trial of Jozef Puska, who stands accused of the murder of 23-year-old schoolteacher Ashling Murphy. Michael reports from court, where the jury heard evidence from paramedics and Gardai about the scene, as well as CCTV evidence from January 12, 2022 - the day of Ashling's murder. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Healy reports from court during the trial of Jozef Puska, accused of the murder of Offaly schoolteacher Ashling Murphy. Michael O'Toole discusses the case with him. The trial continues. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is day three of the Ashling Murphy murder trial, as Jozef Puska stands accused of the murder of the Offaly schoolteacher on 12th January 2022. Paul Healy speaks to Michael O'Toole from court, as he witnessed key testimony and cross-examination from witnesses who came across the scene of Ms Murphy's murder. Subscribe to the podcast for daily updates from the trial, wherever you get your podcasts. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this first episode of The Trial, Ashling Murphy, Caroline and Nicola discuss the opening statement of prosecuting counsel Anne Marie Lawlor who outlined the State's case against Jozef Puska, and how two days after her death, he confessed, telling detectives “I'm the murderer”.The jury was also told there was just a 1 in 14,000 chance that DNA found under the fingernails of Ashling didn't belong to Puska and that extensive CCTV evidence taken on the day of the murder saw him trailing two other women on his bicycle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Healy and Michael O'Toole discuss day two of the Ashling Murphy murder trial, as the prosecution lay out the roadmap for their case. Please note that some evidence is graphic in nature, and may be disturbing to hear. Subscribe to the podcast for daily updates from the trial of Jozef Puska. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael O'Toole gives us the updates after he was in court for day one of the trial of Jozef Puska, who the State alleges murdered Ashling Murphy. Paul Healy brings us through the day's events as the trial is believed to last four to five weeks. Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the team that brought you The Trial of Lucy Letby, this is The Trial: Ashling Murphy.Ashling Murphy was a 23yr old primary school teacher who was killed whilst jogging near Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland.Her death stunned the nation.Jozef Puška stands trial in Dublin Central Criminal Court, accused of her murder.Listen to the evidence and hear the details behind the headlines every Tuesday & Friday, from October 17th.Presented by Nicola Byrne, Deputy News Editor for Mail on Sunday Ireland and Broadcast Journalist Caroline Cheetham.This is a Mail Metro Media Audio production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.