I saw this ad for a WWI tour in Friday's Irish Times. I've seen a few of these ads lately. Visiting the Western Front must be gainin...

"Where've I been?," you ask. Well, I don't know. Busy, but also elsewhere. No, not out of the country - well, a little bit...

And, if you're sick of Nama - and am I the only one who isn't? - then this column from David Brooks about an aspect of modern Ameri...

One of the biggest problems with Nama is the presumption that the property market will one day recover. Why should it? Every day people are ...

Henry McDonald writing in today's Guardian says Irish taxpayers will hand over tens of billions of euros to the republic’s banks in orde...

I like Brendan Keenan and feel unqualified to question his analysis, but something he's written about Nama in today's Irish Indepen...

The share price of AIB has risen by 430% (or so) over the past six months. Bank of Ireland is up over 890% in the same period! Why? Has th...

It was just about this point in the season the past two years that the Mets began their end-of-season run for second place, having calculate...

A month ago I was driving through Saratoga County late(ish) one night and I was on edge as I was worried about the number of spindly-legged ...

It's well past time that FÁS was wound up. FÁS sums up so much that is wrong with government intervention in the economy. Well-intentio...

Sheesh. What's the world coming to? I can't help but agree with Winnie Mandela , who says that gold medalist Caster Semenya is a vic...

There is a 9/11 season for television. From Sep 1 through the 11th there are just so many documentaries on September 11. It's been this ...

You'd think that seeing as I was born in New Amsterdam I'd be fluent in Dutch, but unfortunately not. If you can read Flemish (Dutch...

Three cheers for Sean Barrett. I know there have been lots of columns putting Nama down, but for me this is the best one . Straight-forward,...

Everyone knows that the truth is stretched during political campaigns, but it seems that EU referenda really bring out the most outrageous l...

I get so tired hearing how this isn't fair or that isn't fair. It's bad enough when little kids pout about something being ...

Dr Sean McDonagh says that the new aptitude test that students must take in order to study medicine seems to "violate the State's ...

Supposedly there were 50,000 people watching the Bray air show yesterday. That's what RTE says, that's what the Irish Independent ...

There's been quite a bit in the Irish Times about atheism lately. John Waters' column on Friday and Shane Hegarty's on Saturda...

When I saw this Washington Post headline - " Video of Moonwalk From 1969 Restored " - I thought to myself, "Geez, haven't...