I can't get over the fact that Sky News had a report on last night's Presidential election debate in South Carolina. Are their Brit...

Given that the election hasn't even been called yet isn't it just a little premature to be featuring opinion polls as the lead story...

One more thing about driving to/from Belfast - the A1 is just ridiculously dangerous. I saw some building near the border, but didn't s...

I was driving the 'new' motorway from Dublin to Belfast yesterday and noticed that the M1 is known as the CRG M1 on the road signs. ...

According to the Independent on Sunday the chairman of the Health Protection Agency in Britain "wants pupils to be monitored for ill e...

I regularly use the phrase "the US". Never gave it a thought before. Until I read last Friday's letter to the Irish Times (su...

This year's Belfast Ulster-Scots Festival (the second) is celebrating Lord Kelvin . I know next-to-nothing about Kelvin, but I remember ...

Just out of curiosity I checked the archives to see what foreign policy matter the Irish Times believed led to the Columbine massacre . I f...

On Wednesday the Irish Times published what may be the DUMBEST post-Blacksburg editorial (sub needed to read in full). The Irish Times sa...

I was only reading last week's Sunday Tribune today. The paper's business editor, old blogging comrade Richard Delevan , notes tha...

How dry has it been around these parts lately? All day a brown plume of smoke from fires in the Wicklow hills has been floating vaguely nort...

I meant to write this two days ago, but forgot after the Va. Tech killings. Anyway, on Monday night NASN broadcast ESPN's Sunday Night B...

Way back in the 1970s a universal policy across all television networks and local stations for all sports was implemented in the US. That po...

I'm not a gun guy. I've never owned one, never fired one, never even held one. Just not something that I was interested in, I guess....

One of AOL's employees is a Va Tech graduate and a former classmate of Cho Seung-Hui. Cho's classmates knew he was capable of this ....

Today's (London) Times reports that the S. Korean government is afraid that Americans will "take out their anger and shock over t...

So, having gotten sort of interested in the Imus story , I tuned into WFAN this morning. Wow! Mike & the Mad Dog are having a real go...

Let me say that I'm with you New York . Yes, it's been amazingly warm and sunny here, but how could I enjoy it when I know that my f...

Let me say, again, that Ryanair's service is great for families. We bought our 5 tickets for our trip to Germany (Frankfurt Hahn) for le...

I've lived in Ireland for 16 years and in all that time I've never really been to Germany, except for one quick business trip. I...