Frank McNally is a genius. I've been meaning to say this for months now. His Irishman's Diaries in the Irish Times are often the on...

The Olympic Council of Ireland President Pat Hickey says that any cutbacks to the government largess that his sports currently receive will...

Let's cut to the chase: the banks need to cut their staffs' wages because they no longer work for the private sector. Bank staff are...

I wasn't supposed to be going in the original plans. I had never imagined going to a Spandau Ballet concert. I wasn't a fan in the 1...

I mentioned George Will's column on Twitter, but I'm not sure if anyone is looking at the box on the right or if Twitter's reall...

My daughter's science textbook says the following: "Corrosion is an undesirable process ..." What sort of nonsense is this? Wh...

I haven't seen any footage yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that President Obama didn't buy a ticket on a comme...

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...