While I'm moaning about the price of things, the natural gas bill came in the other day. Whoa! The bill for Dec-Jan is 31% higher than l...

I can't get over how much the cost of sending letters to Britain has risen recently. I'm doubting myself, but I seem to remember tha...

The New York Times reported yesterday that curling is experiencing a massive interest thanks to the t.v. coverage of the games in Turin. I...

I like to think of myself as a friend of Taiwan. Still, I think President Chen of Taiwan is N-U-T-S if he thinks that the US is going to lea...

To my layman's perspective it seems odd that someone who wrote a book that is "non-fiction" would get all that upset to see th...

I don't comment on things that are featuring on the Newshound, but I don't think I'm really violating that principle too much by...

I was in Dublin on Saturday, but I had left and gone home before anything started. It was pretty quiet when I was there. I didn't see an...

I have no idea if The Emerald Diamond , the movie about the Irish National Baseball team, is any good, but I admire filmmaker John Fitzgera...

I only just found this article from the London Times , January 5. Although baseball has been vetoed for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, t...

Okay, I'm willing to concede that figure skating is a sport - barely - but what sport has a " gala " after the competition. Th...

One aspect of the possible Iraqi civil war that rarely gets mentioned is that there's no good reason to assume it will involve only Iraq...

The US won its first ever curling medal today . They beat Great Britain to take the Bronze. By far, these guys (men's and women's te...

I guess the News Letter doesn't take its web publication too seriously. Their web site was not updated on Feb. 22 or Feb. 23 and they...

I forgot to mention this. You might remember that I was skeptical that the Irish public "abhorred" the publication of the Danish ...

I found this article by Mansoor Ijaz fairly convincing. Dubai was the first Middle East government to accept the U.S. Container Security In...

The Americans are having a bad Olympics. Most of the big names (in these minor sports) seem to be letting them down. The British have one me...

I know next to nothing about what managing ports entails. But, I think I'm in pretty good company because I'm pretty sure that many ...

Just beneath the question I've mentioned below there's another True or False question: "Pearl Harbour was bombed by the Japane...

I was looking through the 2005 Environment & Social Studies Junior Cert exam and came across this True or False question: "Russia ...

Alex Massie spells it out : After all, curling's advantages are many and great. It is a sport for normal people, not freaks of nature. P...