What is the most dangerous sport for girls to play? In the US it looks like it might be cheerleading . Emergency room visits for cheerleadin...

On one level this whole issue between Iran and Britain seems almost laughable. Surely even Ahmadinejad knows that this whole escapade is cou...

A friend of mine loaned me a copy of 'Tis by Frank McCourt. I hadn't read Angela's Ashes , but obviously I'd heard a lot ab...

How many times tonight has George Hamilton referred to a Slovak player as a Czech?

Castlebar's town council has (again) refused McDonald's permission to light up its big golden arches sign. This is not a big deal to...

It's fifty years since the Treaty of Rome was signed. The Irish Times published a special section with yesterday's paper to mark t...

Back in the old days they had proper table settings, top restaurant type service, cocktail bars, etc., but they never had live in-flight spo...

The NY Times seems unsure how to spell the first name of their Ireland correspondent. Within the past two days we've had articles by bo...

Good news for Wales. They're opening new coal mines . Up to 250 jobs are being created at the first deep mines to open in south Wales fo...

It seems almost weekly that I read a book review in the Irish Independent by John Bruton . He sure is getting his reading in. This week he ...

This morning's Daily Telegraph claims that Bob Woolmer was poisoned then strangled. The motive for his killing looks increasingly as i...

There are always loads of stories about Ireland/the Irish - in Ireland, in America, everywhere - in the papers around St. Patrick's Day....

I guess I didn't really believe the rumors because I was genuinely shocked last night to learn that Bob Woolmer had really been murdere...

A few days ago it was just one of those sports stories that fans love. The Irish national cricket team is mostly part-timers – the guys on t...

I read in the Chicago Sun-Times that Patrick Fitzgerald, he of the Plame outing investigation, was in Ireland over the weekend, but I didn...

Sorry for the break in the action here. Big doings this past weekend with visitors from afar and family functions, etc. I'm hoping that ...

I wish I could remember where I read it, but about two or three months ago I read something about Irish forecasters expecting March 19 to be...

Do people hate Google as much as they hate Microsoft? If not, I'm sure that day is coming. I finally made the effort to try and post som...

Finally finished reading Truman over the weekend. Can't recommend it enough. Great book. It's so well written that there are times ...

What is the future of (snail) mail? I only found out today that the price of a stamp is now 55c (that's $0.72 ). That's amazingly e...