If someone asked me to name my favorite song, I'd be hard-pressed. My answer to such a question depends on my mood, the time of day, the...

I love Brenda Power. Okay, love is a little strong seeing as I've never met the woman and am unlikely to. And, when I hear her on the ra...

Lt. Col. Douglas Mastriano believes he has found the exact location of Sergeant York's heroic sweep down on German trenches in WWI. Ma...

Ever since I read that article about the EU's intention to wipe out the old style measurements, I've been taking note of those prod...

You know you've been in a job way too long when you're damning the citizens who vote you in because you're not capable of solvin...

Black pudding is something I've liked since I first came to Ireland in the mid 80s. Maybe it's fortunate that I found out what it w...

FÁS is advertising for people to come live and work in Ireland on the New York City subway this month. Thanks to Eddie for this picture , wh...

Last week I cast my ballot in the elections for the U.S. Congress. On the same day the ballot arrived I received an election flyer from Sam ...

Yes, I'm getting old, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I still believe that a large number of the under 30s in this country are ...

Three years from now it will be illegal " for any products made in or imported into the EU to carry any reference to non-metric measu...

I expect this will be the last time I write about the Mets for a few months. I woke up this morning and I'm still replaying the 9th inni...

The head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal O'Brien, wants Muslims to apologize for September 11 and the July 7, 2005 bombing...

Mets lose and are out. Nothing left now, but a long, dark winter.

The Irish Wind Energy Truth Alliance has allies in the anti-wind farm movement in a couple of Massachusetts politicians: Senator Kennedy an...

My bank's online banking system is down and could be down for "a few days". I couldn't help laughing when the guy on the ...

Statistics is more science than art, but projections generated by statisticians are not as certain as those produced by a physicist studying...

By the way, look for the Dow to come down significantly if (when? I hope not) the Mets do make their exit from the Playoffs. Okay, so I don...

You can't pin this loss on me. Despite the fact that I wore the lucky shirt through the whole game the Mets lost 4-2 and now trail 3 gam...

Italians in Boston (& elsewhere across America, presumably) thought they were getting a chance to see, touch, have their pictures taken...

According to today's Times , the EU wants to control web videos now. The proposed Television Without Frontiers directive would require w...