Both RTE (online) & the Irish Times are still ignoring the Richard Armitage angle Valerie Plame story.

I never heard of the Sack of Baltimore until I read Eoghan Harris's article on Sunday. The sacking of Baltimore, Co. Cork was carried ...

On Tuesday I was thinking about how rarely I have any troubles with Windows crashes. I actually thought to myself, "things have improve...

I don't really know what Twenty 20 cricket is even after reading this explanation . The game is quicker, that much I get. But, I like th...

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has admitted he was the 'source' for the Valerie Plame revelations. Unexciting ne...

I was watching Manchester United on Saturday and was taken aback when I saw #16 on the back of someone who wasn't Roy Keane. If this wer...

First of all, let me say that I hate all these words that end in 'phobia'. According to Webster a phobia is "an exaggerated us...

Yesterday's Sunday Herald claimed that "[t]he current right-wing populist party running Poland is also a factor spurring immigrati...

The head of the Apostrophe Protection Society in the UK criticized the grammar on a large billboard near Portlaoise for omitting a crucial ...

The Ryder Cup was over-sold. There was a sense that the Ryder Cup was something like a weekend-long World Cup. The television audience would...

Today's Washington Post has an analysis of the Department of Defense's data on the risk exposure of troops serving in Iraq. One sta...

In the aftermath of the war in Lebanon it seemed that all points of view were agreed that Hezbollah had achieved a great victory. Left, righ...

Count me among those who are not in favor of Pluto's delisting as a planet, but if we must change it's better to go back to 8 planet...

Cases such as Sarah Yule's do a disservice to the whole notion of anti-discrimination laws. Yule was asked by her employer - a Catholic...

I forgot about this one from the other day. ' Shoe bomber ' Richard Reid's lawyer talked about his meeting with Reid. "I a...

Wow! A bomb threat against an Aer Lingus plane . I hopoe (& presume) that this will be a false alarm, but still that's quite a shock...

Looking at my last two posts, I can't help wondering if there will ever be a day when there's a "Malaysia" in western Euro...

Lina Joy was a Muslim , but she converted to Christianity eight years ago. Shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. Joy lives in Malaysia, a ...

This article about Belgium from yesterday's Wall Street Journal is chock full of interesting tidbits. Try this: In Brussels, notes Joë...

America is the home of capitalism, right? At least it's the world's biggest promoter of capitalism, true? I'm just checking beca...