Both parties agree. The Wall Street Journal and the Albany Times Union agree. New York Governor Paterson must sign the libel bill before h...

Well, how do you like that? Fine Gael's Lucinda Creighton has managed to make some news in America today, stealing a little bit of Bert...

I like how Bloomberg's news service captures the essence of the Taoiseach's speech before Congress today: "Ahern's U.S. Sp...

There have been a few pretty good articles/columns on the Bank of Ireland and the 'lost laptops', but there's a part of me that ...

I don't want to hear any government minister complain about packaging or junk mail or any other commercial marketing material that they ...

I think there's almost a growing consensus - especially among the gloomier, left-leaning media - over here that the Democrats are commit...

The other day was Earth Day . I somehow missed it. Oh well. Whenever I think about Earth Day I think back about 20 years. I had driven up t...

The Pennsylvania primary is today. It's only six years weeks since the Ohio & Texas primaries. Anyway, Clinton's going to win t...

Did you hear about the four bank robberies that cost a bank about €500,000, but about which the bank did practically nothing? Funny enough, ...

Wow! I can't say enough about Antony Beevor's book, Berlin , which I finished recently. Before I'd read this book I had only a v...

The Archdiocese of New York's has a new message for those who are considering (or might be willing to consider) the priesthood: "Th...

According to today's Irish Independent , the Junior Cert curriculum for the "all-new music syllabus" is going to include John ...

Could someone please turn on the heat? The calendar seems to think it's supposed to be spring, but so far we've seen very little evi...

Yup, England smells something foul and it is (apparently) Europe's stink . Of course some people are having fun with the cause of the sm...

Who is Ciaran Cannon ? I never heard of him until a couple of days ago when I heard that he'd won the day and become the new leader of ...

Teenage children want the drinking age lowered. That's according to Teenagers’ views on solutions to alcohol misuse (Report on a Nationa...

It might be a mere oversight or coincidence, but the Irish Independent's coverage of this story has been somewhat scant compared with w...

The Democratic Party is still trying to find a nominee. I can't believe it's another week to the Pennsylvania primary. I don't k...

Waterford Crystal wants the government to provide it with "State guarantees for €39m of new bank debt over a three-year period". ...

This is just outrageous. The British government's telecoms watchdog proposes imposing a tax on internet service providers in order to f...