Goodness gracious we're precious when it comes to EU relations. Last week the 'No' (to Lisbon) folks were all upset by the visit...

I know I've said before that watching and listening to Obama must be a completely different experience than simply reading him because t...

I'm being facetious. I only finished reading his Berlin speech and came across this: This is the moment when every nation in Europe mus...

Ever since some short-sighted dolt wrote , "It's all over for Obama. The Democrats would be nuts to nominate him", I've be...

Less than a month ago the BBC reported that Radovan Karadzic was too well protected to be captured. I guess his protection melted away duri...

We have competition in the domestic electricity supply business now. Maybe other parts of the country have had it for a while, but yesterday...

Okay, maybe a little strong, but let's face it there are few people on the planet in greater need of sunblock than those who come from o...

I know I've mentioned this before, but it's great to see that the Irish government might - finally - be seeing the light on how to ...

It was all over too quickly, but it was great to see President Sarkozy in Dublin yesterday. The fawning press coverage, the warm welcome, th...

I could keep this to myself, but well I'm not that ashamed. When I first saw the cover of the New Yorker magazine that has the Obama c...

I was reading a summary of the recently concluded trial of " lyingeyes ". This had completely passed me by until this weekend, but...

One of them - Alex Rodriguez - has been making the news over here. A-Rod has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons - and rumors of...

I can't remember where I first came across it, but I remember after the Lisbon vote reading the comments of some Fine Gaeler - Gay Mitc...

I don't feel like I did justice to all that John Dillon's column was (or is). The first half was about insulting Americans. The sec...

You just have to read John Dillon's column from Sunday's Sunday Independent . He once (apparently) lived in America, but that doesn...

First I was mad at Microsoft. I installed their recommended security patch and, after the requisite restart, couldn't access the interne...

If students had to pay to train to become doctors we probably wouldn't have the problem we have now. According to the Irish Times we...

Sometimes I just marvel at how much water this small island can hold. Okay the sun is shining so far today, but the amount of rain we've...

Maybe I just need to read and pass on all of this in order to get it out of my system. Anyway, I thought David McWilliams was excellent in t...

The ESRI now says we're in recession. It was only last October that they forecast growth of 2.9% for this year. I remember back in the ...