I hadn't thought about this before, but the child benefit system is ripe to be ripped off - B I G—T I M E. The government pays €460.50 ...

According to this morning's Times there were demonstrations and flag burnings in Islamic countries yesterday. Ambassadors have been rec...

A copy of the The Da Vinci Code landed in my lap over the weekend. So, I started reading it and I was surprised (and not just by my willing...

Here's part of a headline from this morning's Guardian : "In baseball, a 'triple threat' is someone who can pitch, catc...

According to the latest figures from the state of Louisiana, 71% of those who died due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina were over 60 yea...

According to the CSO there were 1,287,958 households in the state in 2002 (latest figures) housing 3,791,316 people. Recent estimates say ...

Apparently that old adage doesn't hold water in the tourist trade, at least as far as Bundoran, Co. Donegal is concerned. The most rece...

The Belfast Telegraph's web site never published the January 25, 2006 paper. The 24th and the 26th are there, but the 25th is missing. ...

We've all had bad days, but right now George Galloway is in the middle of what seems to be the 'mother of all bad days' - one la...

No, I'm not a big football (gridiron) fan. It wasn't always the case, however. I used to live and die with my favorite team. For rea...

I see this sort of post on other blogs from time to time. Usually the person in charge of the blog has decided to go with a new look because...

In October 2003 I claimed that an increasingly isolationist America would be the end result of failure in Iraq, if that came to pass. I st...

I'm sure there are thousands of documents I could read that would provide me with the same information, but I enjoyed these two that I f...

Despite what I wrote below I'm not really opposed to allowing priests to marry. Here are a few things that ran through my head over the...

I used to love the West Wing , but it really has gone down hill the past few years. I'm not surprised it's been canceled . RTE has o...

On a related note to my post below , why was Fr. Dillane's name (and his girlfriend's) in the media at all? For Catholics this is a ...

Every time a priest is found to have abandoned his vow of celibacy the media begins the "we need married priests" chorus again. Th...

What a conundrum? On the one hand, I'm drawn to the ostrich in the sand approach. I have a strong isolationist streak in me. Iran is a p...

Not unintentionally, I missed yesterday's on air celebrations of ' Bring a Noam Chomsky to work day ' on Eamonn Dunphy's sho...

Today's Scotsman has a picture of what Clonycavan man - one of the two bog men - might have looked like. I love his hair, although I d...