Her mother's from Charleville, Co. Cork and her husband has just been sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. I ca...

This was from a couple of days ago, but I didn't get around to mentioning it. It seems that despite the Irish government's pledge to...

Sidney Zion says that New York Democrats don't care about Tom DeLay's trouble or Bush or anything other than one pressing question...

This article from the Los Angeles Times provides more details of the rumors that were circulated by the press. For the most part I've ...

From Monday's Wall Street Journal : No state turns out better demagogues than Louisiana--the state that Huey Long ruled with an near-fas...

It's not a total surprise to me, but I'm sure it is to many of the people who live in this area. Nearly all of northeast Wicklow (Br...

Thanks to a tip from Eddie , I found this genuine treat (link fixed), A Citizen's Guide to Roundabouts . It's a six page brochure e...

One lesson I thought I'd learned from September 11 is that what the press reports is often way off when the story is big. The press stru...

The Albany Times-Union reports that New York State is adopting the roundabout in lieu of traffic lights to manage traffic at intersections...

When I was a kid all hurricanes had female names (changed to be politically correct, I'm sure). I'm not sure why this was, but I rem...

Last night BBC Newsnight's Gavin Esler had a very good report on poverty in America. What he had to say on poverty and race was covere...

The Washington Post today had an editorial complaining that while Congress and the White House are "fortresses with mini armies and hig...

People seem to be evacuating in great numbers. I wonder if this will cause problems too. One million people are apparently evacuating or go...

That's all I can figure. First New Orleans, now Galveston . Each year, more than half a million people gather in the streets of Galvesto...

The other day my daughter asked me about Corpus Christi, Texas. The name of the city had made an impact on her and she wanted to know more a...

I'd like to imagine that S. Frederick Starr is correct that many of New Orleans's homes can be saved. If not, I hope that some of t...

Good for Dublin City Council. Local government has very limited powers in Ireland, but it's nice to see that Dublin's government is ...

This paper's ( Daily Ireland ) web site doesn't date the articles and I can't remember how long ago I found this , but it's ...

More from the Washington Post today on the 'levees' and what caused the failures. Despite all the talk about the levees only being ...

Never again try to fix anything to do with the washing machine at 10:40pm.