As most of you know, I don't claim any real knowledge of soccer. Still, I was surprised by this article in today's NY Times. I had ...

The Mets lost last night . Hardly earth-shattering news, but the manner of their defeat is pretty shocking. They lost because they played li...

The people of Newcastle, Co. Down can, apparently, enjoy free WiFi in at least part of the town. And not everyone is happy about this (&...

Two years ago I said that I was abandoning Newstalk's morning and afternoon shows because they were too juvenile, particularly the mor...

I'm sure I've mentioned that I'm something of a climate change skeptic. I'm more than willing to accept that the climate...

I told someone during the week that the best bit of good news we've had in a while was the ESRI's gloomier than thou forecast. To m...

By the way, it's gotten much cheaper to park at Dublin Airport. QuickPark is now charging €5 per day , down from €7.50 and the DAA is ch...

I don't think we need to strengthen the blasphemy laws in Ireland. I think anyone who feels strongly will not be so unsettled by the wi...

Obviously I'm not surprised by all the reports that air travel is down, but still I was taken aback by how quiet Dublin Airport was this...

On Saturday I spent a few hours at Craven Cottage in London watching Fulham FC against Stoke City. I'm not a huge soccer fan and I hear...

No, I wasn't expecting an invite to the former Ambassador's wedding in Celbridge over the weekend. If he wasn't inclined to ask...

I was called for jury duty recently. I wouldn't have minded doing it, but I couldn't. I work for myself and simply could not afford ...

Last night - for reasons that even I can't explain - I found myself watching the last few minutes of Hell's Kitchen . I listened to ...

Okay, that's enough laying around doin' nuttin. Time to get this going again.

MLB.com. Whoever runs that has to be among the dumbest people in business anywhere. For reasons that I can't fathom, they decided that w...

Budget cuts may mean that secondary schools will have to reduce the number of courses they can offer. Here's a suggestion: scrap CSPE ...

There were all sorts of names applied to yesterday's budget. It was called a mini-budget, a supplemental budget, I even saw "crisis...

Hmm. What to make of this ? "Sisters spread happiness while brothers breed distress, experts believe." Or this ? "Having a si...

The votes are counted and Tedisco 59 votes behind in the race to fill the House seat vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand, who's gone to the ...

I couldn't find the article online, but there are a couple of sentences that say so much about our banking problems. It's a long pie...