New Double Vision Up...

Charlie's latest article is up on Double Vision, and you can also see it in the Connacht Tribune.

Brian McElhinney- Sportsperson of the Month in the Inishowen Independent!

Congratulations to Brian McElhinney, currently making a big name for himself in international golf and this month's winner of the Inishowen Independent's Sportsperson of the Month.

You can see previous winners here.

Fundraiser for Clowns Without Borders!

“No Child without a smile”

A fundraiser for Clowns Without Borders – Ireland,
Friday July 6th in Roisin Dubh at 9pm.
Tickets: 10 euro

Cuckoo Savant : The Violets : Little John Nee
The Hussey Brothers & The Great Innuendo

If you're around on the night please come along, it promises to be a great night. Hopefully Jonathan will tell a few stories about his previous travels. He wrote a series of reports from his time in Nepal that were pricelessly funny.

See you there!

Lucia Evans' New Single!

The Other Man. Honestly women are always writing songs about me.

Sorry Shane!


Lucia's single is available for download on iTunes via her website.

Incidently I'll be doing some work with the guys shortly on the Chernobyl Children's Project. More on that here later. Now off you go and buy Lucia's single!

Mayor's Car for Auction on eBay!

Former Mayor of Galway Cllr. Niall O'Brolchain has put the mayoral Prius on eBay to raise money for the 15 charities that were beneficiaries of that scary veggie hippy/interesting delicious alternative (delete as appropriate) Mayor's Ball in May.

I'll be the first to admit I'm not a huge fan of cars in the Jeremy Clarkson sense, but by golly I'd love a Prius. They are so quiet they could nearly pick your pockets without you noticing.

Mind you it'll take a good few more caricatures before I can afford one!

When you just can't resist...

This is my friend Ciaran on his hols in Thailand last year:



I just couldn't help myself.



With apologies to Peter Jackson.

Caricatures from the weekend- Galway and Ennis

These are some of the many caricatures I did between the Harbour Hotel Galway and the Woodstock Golf and Country Club on Friday and Saturday night. Galway was a party for the staff of Intergroup, and in Ennis I was entertaining guests at the wedding of Sinead and Shane. Great craic, lovely to meet everyone!

Mark Thomas for the Galway Arts Festival

One of my favourite outraged sorts, Mark Thomas, is coming to Galway for the 30th Galway Arts Festival. I'm currently reading his book As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela, an actual quote used as a selling point in an arms dealer's brochure.

I guarantee the funniest indignation you'll see this year if you come along. You can see some of his television work on YouTube, but be warned it's not safe for work (lots of cussin'!!).

The Festival box office is open now and you can book tickets online.

Caricatures- an ideal birthday present!

A recent caricature for a birthday present. At the moment I'm working on two retirement presents as well. If you'd like to enquire about a caricature for a birthday, wedding or retirement present contact me here.

I'll also have some images from the corporate party in the Harbour Hotel, Galway and the wedding in the Woodstock Country Club, Ennis up shortly for your perusal!

Salthill Warshow, I mean Airshow... New Double Vision Up...

Charlie's latest article is up on Double Vision, and you can also see it in the Connacht Tribune.

UPDATE: At the moment the "Thunderbirds" are buzzing my house with repeated flyovers, obviously practicing for the weekend. The noise is unbearable.
I'm after having a look at the BBC website and saw this report:

"Last night, around 01:30, Nato forces bombed the village... as a result of the bombing 25 people were killed. They included women, three babies between 6 to 10 months one, one mullah of a mosque and other elders."

Well, enjoy the show. Keep your kids close.

Busy Weekend!

I'll be in the Harbour Hotel this Friday night entertaining Intergroup and then I've a wedding on Saturday in Ennis in the Woodstock Hotel. I've also got a number of caricatures for birthday and retirement presents on the desk at the moment. It's no complaint and I'm keeping my framer happy!
If you'd like live caricatures at your wedding or corporate event or would like to order a framed caricature just get in touch here!

Barbequed caricatures! Best of luck on your travels Mia!

This is my friend Mia Mullarkey, who's off to Peru for a number of months to work with street children. Her family threw a barbeque in Annaghdown on the banks of the Corrib, a really beautiful, quiet area of Galway just outside the city.

There was lots of music and singing, and as I am incapable in either of those departments I brought my pens and paper and did some caricatures instead!




Bon voyage Mia!

Child Labour Development Education Workshops

Tuesday was World Day Against Child Labour, designed to raise awareness of the fact that over 200 million children are forced to work around the world. Every year I work with Transition Year students around the country on the child labour issue for Concern. I try to get across concepts of globalisation, trade and consumer responsibility in the workshops, but I do try to keep it fun!

Firstly the participants are asked to think of their favourite possession and draw themselves using it, reflecting their state of mind when using it:


The usual items that come up are mobile phones, iPods and so on. I then do a short role-play where participants are suddenly in my sweat-shop doing finger-breaking work for less than five minutes, involving lots of shouting and firing. They are asked to record their feelings immediately after this:

Next participants are asked to make a model box of themselves as child labourers:


The finished pieces look like this:






The thought bubble at the back contains their thoughts and feelings from the earlier exercise. The whole thing is designed to found a feeling of empathy. The day ends with an action plan where the group suggests tangible actions they can take individually or as a group, and each pledges to act on one of the suggestions. Participants are asked to take the model box home with them and display it somewhere prominent in their home as a reminder of their pledge.

The workshops run in several locations around the country every March. If your are interested in your school attending you can contact me directly or ring Lizzy Noone of Concern on 01 417 7740.

Smoking Cartoon

Smoking cartoon.

Cllr. Padraig Conneely cartoon

Local publicity junkie and city councillor Padraig Conneely after a rather embarrassing appearance on the Keith Finnegan Show on Galway Bay FM. This was a bit of a hit locally when it was published. You can see more of my cartoons in the publications section of my website.

New Double Vision

Check out Charlie Adley's Double Vision online and in the Connacht Tribune!

New Caricature- Click for Full Size

A recently completed caricature. Happy birthday!

If you would like to talk to me about a caricature just give me a bell on 087 7599249 or contact me here.

New Young Pony Club: Very Cool...

Apart from the guitarists who appear to have come straight off the stage from an Abba Tribute gig.

Also by New Young Pony CLub (sounds remarkably like CSS):

HSE Cartoon Strip

This is the cartoon strip I used to do for the Health Service Executive's western publication Health Links, the McSlaintes and O'Tinns. You can see more of these cartoons in the publications section of my website.

Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water...

...it isn't. Surprise surprise, Galway City Council have announced that they won't have a safe supply by next Friday after all. Not content with deliberately neglecting Galway's water supply for ten years (to be fair the County Council are equally complicit in that one) we now are guaranteed a third world water supply at the peak of the tourist season.
Prospective tourists should be assured that most hotels and restaurants have their own filtration systems in place and provide safe clean water. The people of Galway, however, will have to make do with continuing to buy water.

Financial Improvisation on Dublin Bus!

If you don't get it you might not have seen this:

New Double Vision

Check out this Friday's Double Vision, also available in the Connacht Tribune!

Chicken Tikka Massala

Chicken Tikka Massala, another cartoon from the Connacht Tribune. I think Charlie was claiming Chicken Tikka Massala was a British invention!

Karl Marx

Karl Marx from my Connacht Tribune cartoons.

Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney and the 'aul pig's gut from Double Vision.

Congratulations to Cathy and Paul!

Congratulations to Cathy and Paul, who were married in Limerick recently. They opted for an Allan Cavanagh caricature for their guests to sign, and they were delighted with it!

If you are getting married and would like a caricature for your stationary or would like a guestbook caricature just get in touch!

You can see more wedding caricatures here.

Going throught the archives...

I have a wealth of cartoons from Double Vision that haven't seen the light of day on this blog and some of them proved very popular when published in the Connacht Tribune, so every so often I'm going to pull them out of the ether for you to enjoy. Some of them are a bit strange out of the context of the article... actually most of them are strange in the context of the article so forget that and just behold my mighty line!

You can see more cartoons here and here.

New Double Vision

Check out Charlie's Double Vision, available every Friday on the internet and the Connacht Tribune!