ARTICLES

unconventional means 2 - the sunday
May 11th 1999
Concluding this years UnCon report, Blather braves absinthe bars, millennial tension, jerusalem syndrome, mossad agents, Mind Machines, premonitions of doom, bald tires, and other hellish activities and entities...

unconventional means 1
May 4th 1999
Blather survives bat-like creatures, reptilian air crews and London night-life to bring you a part 1 of out passionate account of this years Fortean Times UnConvention... *Myths, Monsters and Madness*

Foolishness and Codology
April 13th 1999
The 2nd Festival of Fools took place in Dublin recently, along with some other unsynchronised idiocy in New York and Belfast. We now join our hominid on the scene, The Mostly Revered Count Hellshaw Zorro O'Blather I, by live telegram link-up - transcending time, space and several by-laws to the scene of the crime...

fiery sky
March 31st 1999
Blather receives a bunch of emails from wandering witness of weird things in the sky, and while feeling confident about their relative mundanity, we do start to worry when people report UFOs from over Dublin streets during large public gatherings...

ghost of a chance
March 16th 1999
In a strange move for the usually sober *Irish Times*, they recently lent column space to the strange story of Nelly, the ghost of Coolmoney House, at the Glen of Imaal army camp in Co. Wicklow. Odder still, the affair was covered by Patsy McGarry, the *Irish Times* _Religious Affairs Correspondant_. The house, built in 1837, was due to be demolished by now, save for a sudden 'intervention', which some people claim emanates from the spirit world.

here be dragons
March 6th 1999
Anyone who caught David Icke's media appearances in the wake of the Glen Hoddle affair, or read his press release ("the meaning of life has been highjacked (sic) for centuries by mainstream religion") might have thought that the ex-goalkeeper-formerly-known-as-the-Son-of-God had regained some semblance of normality. They could never understand how wrong they would be...

big lights out west
February 12th 1999
A report of a rather bizarre nature (as if anything we report *isn't* bizarre) has come to us by way of the noble folk at Astronomy Ireland, originating with a certain Paraic O'Loughlin. He tells us that on December 27th 1998, he was motoring to Castlebar, Co. Mayo, along with three fellow passengers. At about 1910 hrs, whilst on the Tuam (Co. Galway) side of Claremorris, they were startled by two 'very bright flashes about 10 seconds apart'...

ancient irish astronauts
January 29th 1999
Following allegations regarding alleged Blathery slip-shodness with the facts, we have decided to publish a Real and Factual Account of A Possibly Fictional Hypothesis, dealing with the Iron Pyrite age of Irish space-exploration...

good puzzle
January 22nd 1999
Just as the by-now traditional pre-Christmas rash of Irish UFO predictions had apparently given way to a New Year lull, our blatherbubble has been punctured by a painful article in *The Boston Herald* (of all places)...

furry cat stories
January 8th 1999
A shaggy dog story - or rather a furry cat story - comes our way this week, courtesy of those fine folk in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Also: last week's blatherings of kibosh are delightfully kiboshed with turkish claims to its lineage...

shameless hijack
January 1st 1999
Blather comes clean this week, enlightening the readership as to how the name Blather was arrived at when naming this vitriolic vessel of the various.

enough is enough
December 18th 1998
Having been called onto national radio to defend the sanity of the nation, Blather ponders its growing unpopularity in the ufological community... and despite all predictions to the contrary, Ireland still does not appear to have been invaded by extraterrestrials.

the doctor and the devil
December 11th 1998
Dr. Franklin Ruehl and Blathermeister Dave Walsh have a gentlemanly clash on the matter of extraterrestrials, NASA probes and pyramid building.

lucifer in the lavatory
December 4th 1998
Blather finds mention of alleged satanic goings on in the Gents of a Wexford public house, eighteenth century mass graves under his floor, and an Irish soap opera gets all paranormal...

non-temperance zone
November 27th 1998
This week, Blather politely declines from claiming that extraterrestrials attacked NASA's *Deep Space 1* probe, indulges in *Indomitable Irishry*, and mourns the loss of Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst.

Vol 2 Issues 28 -
(November 20th 1998)

kill for jesus
November 20th 1998
In a deft delve into Blather's past, we exhume the corpse of the first issue - if only to discuss why any deity would require that a U.S. Air Force pilot should fly his plane into a Colorado mountainside...

energy fields! - shields up!
November 13th 1998
Blather notices that one an Irish UFO organisation has gone the whole hog with claims of extraterrestrial visitations. Is it all a bunch of "tree-hugging hippie crap", or are they just having trouble seeing the wood for the trees?

Vol 3 & 4 (June 1999-2001)
Vol 2 Issues 27-43 (Nov 1998-May 1999)
Vol 2 Issues 1-26 (May 1998-Nov 1998)
Vol 1 Issues 27-52 (Nov 1997-May 1998)
Vol 1 Issues 1-26 (May 1997-Nov 1997)