Any sports fan can understand the frustration and the anger that the referee's decision (or non-decision) caused the other day. I was an...

The other day I posted on Twitter that I was "embarrassed by President Obama" while I watched the celebrations from Berlin. During...

President Obama has cautioned "against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts" with regards to the killings at Fort H...

This morning's Irish Times reports that taxpayers forked out €100m to "support" private fee-paying schools. Sounds like a sca...

The Sunday Telegraph reports today that people are claiming child benefit in the UK for 50,000 children who live outside the UK. This is an...

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...