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    Just For The Craic (Tales from an Irishman in Japan)
    Just For The Craic (Tales from an Irishman in Japan)
    Just For The Craic (Tales from an Irishman in Japan)
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    Just For The Craic (Tales from an Irishman in Japan)

    By James Linehan

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    “Just For The Craic” is a collection of stories!
    The stories range from discovering a neighbour being your pilot to helping build houses after the big tsunami in Asia to debating to help lost tourists or not in Tokyo.
    Each story is unique and real. The undertone being that, we are here for a short time, let's have a bit of "craic".

    “Craic” is Gaelic for “fun/enjoyment/music.
    So “Just for the Craic” means basically means “Just for fun”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Linehan
    Release dateJan 2, 2019
    ISBN9780463710371
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      Just For The Craic (Tales from an Irishman in Japan) - James Linehan

      If you want to we could link my living in Japan to the World Snooker Championships in 1984 between Jimmy Whirlwind White vs Steve Davis, (actually I'm sure it goes back further to Castle street in Cork City and collecting my sisters from their Irish dancing practice class, standing on my tippy toes looking in the window of the CYMA club at the snooker tables, I remember it being dark, smoky and I wanted to be there! I was around 6 y.o. I think) here we go..... It was May and thinking back my mom was in hospital and in her last month before the cancer finally got her! I don't remember much of the match but I was cheering Jimmy on and although he lost the match I was smitten by his flamboyance and attacking style.

      So. That got me into snooker and I progressed from the small table I had at home to a full size adult table, going every Saturday with my 2 uncles and cousin. I fell more in love with it and started traveling the country playing in tournaments, my first trip abroad playing snooker was in Cardiff Wales, I earned a place on the Irish Junior team (we won that home international tournament, also playing for their country's then were "Graham Dott, Matthew Stevens, David Gray and the late great Paul Hunter) this led me to going to various countries playing individual tournaments, in 1993 I went to Iceland and 1997 South Africa. In Iceland I met Andrew Hicks who was a huge help 15 years later in Australia, helping me get work and contacts all around the country.

      I first met Sax in South Africa, then in Ireland in '98, Qatar in '01 and London in '03, I stayed with him and his family for 3 month in '04, then for around 9 months in '05 , he really is a brother from another mother!

      So we are onto giving up snooker and traveling around living out of a backpack which eventually helped me arrive in Australia, I was kinda sheeping my way to Australia, following the bunch rather than being drawn to it, I did enjoy it but not as much as others, maybe it suits drinkers more? Anyway, as I said, Andrew Hicks was a great help throughout my time in Australia, helping me find work and get contacts all around the country (I often arrived at working towns where farm work was aplenty with less than $50 to my name!) it really was an amazing learning experience! New Zealand was nearby and I though as I was so close it'd be a shame not to go there and check it out, I did a little research and booked a hostel in Aukland that I could get to by bus from the airport (unbelievably, by destiny, I would meet the girl to change my life around totally) I had a notion to rent a car and drive down through the North Island, onto the South Island but financially that was impossible. Anyway, I got around by bus and eventually met up again with that girl in the Christchurch and we got on famously.

      I went back to Australia and back to work in Capella where there was no traffic lights and some guys still rode their horse to the pub! My official title was a water boy I was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser with a 300 liter tank on a trailer behind, I had to fill it up with water and mix chemicals into it, bring it out to the farm to fill/ refill (and refill, one day we worked 18 hours!) a rogater that was spraying weeds!!! The gater was driven by my boss, Beven, a country boy, Australian with German blood!! He was a good guy I think, a family man but he definitely had some anger issues! It didn't take much to set him off, one morning we left home around 4 am and we were driving for around 2 hours, I could tell as soon as we got into the truck that he was in one of his black moods!!! So I thought it best just to keep my mouth shut, I have a habit of being in too good a mood in the mornings, it was better to hide that on that morning;-) anyway, we were listening to a radio station, I can't remember it , maybe it was ABCradio? It was the station where they talked politics rather than play music, Bev loved it, I liked it myself from time to time, it was a change for me cause I was always listening to music. They had an interview on with Cathy Freeman, the Olympic legend who was very successful in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She is an Aboriginal/Australian who carried the Aboriginal Flag in celebration, Bev obviously still wasn't very happy about this, 6 years on so it's good he could let go of his anger, and he berated the radio with a violent rage that poor Cathy might even have heard hundreds of miles away! All that was in my head, as he racial abused Cathy and saying get out of my country, was that between the 3 of us there was only one Australian amongst us, I sure wasn't an Aussie, Bev and his German blood sure wasn't either but sorry Cathy, I didn't stand up for you this time, cause I was sure he would have just kicked me out of the truck.

      Thankfully Yuki was brave enough to come there for a trip for a week, we got even closer again and after she went home to Japan I HAD to follow her and be with her! So....... That's how I ended up in Japan!

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