I cannot get over how many people I've heard on the radio who, during their reviews of the past year, have connected the Tsunami with g...

Too busy lately for much action here - too much excitement with the new toys, etc. Merry Christmas.

I cannot believe that the Canadian Olympic team has decided to include Todd Bertuzzi in the team for the Games in Turin. What are they thin...

Estonia is using a flat tax and a focus on high tech to fuel an economic boom . Globalization is not the threat to Ireland that the new memb...

The American government has informed Major League Baseball that the Cuban team will not be allowed to participate in the World Baseball Cla...

Tom Deignan had an article on the roots of the Transit Workers Union in last week's Irish Voice . "Seven subway workers who were m...

I'm only just exhaling after barely avoiding being labelled a "boy racer" when I'm reminded that I can still pass for a th...

It seems that Minister Callely's unfortunate fall from grace has saved us "boy racers" from having to change the tinting on o...

Thanks to Eddie for this tip. It turns out that white people were over-represented among those who died in New Orleans during and just afte...

I'm pretty sure that had George W. Bush left office and immediately taken up a position at the head of a new gas pipeline project that g...

The PD's want to create a Manhattan-style skyline on Dublin Bay, on the land that is now being used by Dublin Port. Housing, offices, sh...

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Minneapolis has no live music because the show's producers found it was easier to use pre-record...

Why is RTE developing its internet capabilities ? I can see no good reason for this whatsoever. The law demands that I pay an annual €155 ($...

According to this report , Irish prisoners will soon be able to exercise their right to vote by postal vote. Pedophiles, rapists & murde...

If you want to read my latest rant about my local refuse collection service, it's here .

Is the US government using Shannon as a transit point for those who have been detained by the CIA and are being sent to Guantanamo (or any o...

I can't access blogger.com from Firefox. Every time I try to access this site I get a page that says "Web Site Blocked By NETGEAR F...

So, authorities in the European Union knew about this practice. Well, there's a surprise. NOT! I'm sure the biggest issue in the EU...

Trinity College Economics Professor, Sean Barrett, says the Latvian sailor will be like the Polish plumber in Paris. He could be right, but...

If anyone reading this can enlighten me, I'd love to know what happened to the Irish News web site. It's been down since early on S...