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Better known on the Web as the "mad cabbie" from Dublin, Ireland.
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 74
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Member Visits: 2,853
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Total Visits: 96,316
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cujimmy's Most Popular Reviews
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#304 in Sports & Outdoors: The Original and Best
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cujimmy's Author Popularity
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#166 in Autos & Motorsports
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#131 in Sports & Outdoors
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About cujimmy
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I have decided to up-date my personal profile a little as one of my New Year Resolutions. I’ve actually been meaning to get round to it for quite a while, but you know how it is, it always seemed to get “put on the long finger”, as we say here in Ireland when we get lazy about doing something. So here it is. A “wee bitty” more detail about this mad 49 year old Scottish exile, now living among the even crazier than he is Irish in Dublin’s “Fair City” for the past twenty years. Born and bred in Bonny Scotland, in the capital Edinburgh, (Auld Reekie) we moved as a family to the small fishing and seaside town of Dunbar when I was about seven. We later returned to “Embra”, where I finished my education at Boroughmuir, one of the city’s famous schools. (did I hear someone say infamous)? My first ambition in life as a young fella was to be a journalist, and I tried two years in succession to join the “Scotsman”, Edinburgh’s famous broadsheet, was shortlisted on both occasions, but finally rejected. (God, was that hard to take, or what) Being a cocky young brat (I haven’t changed that much!) I wouldn’t settle for second best, and so abandoned my journo plans, and set out on a career in the sales world. The next twenty years or so, I worked for in various and multifarious sales roles. These jobs took me all over the U.K. and Ireland, until I eventually settled here in Ireland in 1981. Here I met and married my bonny Irish “colleen”, and have never regretted a day since, and am now blessed with a bonny wee lassie who is nine years old and the apple of her daddy’s eye. Along the way I have had lots of experience of life, some good and some bad, but mostly tending towards the good side.
I found a God who loves and understands me in 1984, and became a practising and devout Roman Catholic the following year. (Christian first, Catholic second, in that order.
In 1994, I gave up the corporate world and invested (at great expense) in a taxi license here in Dublin. This, too, has been great fun, and over the years I have met people of every shape and size, political persuasion, sexual orientation, etc. In 1997, I decided to exercise the brain that God was good enough to give me, and enrolled to attempt a Degree course in Journalism and Media Studies. (as a VERY mature student) This I managed to achieve (with honours) in August of 2000. I have been very lucky in my new profession and have had a fair measure of success in having my work published, even to the extent of writing two features last year for the “Irish Times”, the best quality newspaper here in the Rep. Of Ireland. So in a way, I have come full circle. It only took me 30 years longer than I had originally planned to end up as a journalist.
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