Surely training Egypt's air force pilots in '79 was as much a breach of neutrality as allowing 12,000 American troops to land at Sh...

All boys instinctively know that if you spend too much time on the 3 R's - reading, riting & rithmetic - you won't fully develo...

Great to see that the Chairman of Irish Nationwide has joined the rest of us: he no longer expects Michael Fingleton to repay the €1m bonus...

Another rich terrorist , yet I'm sure I'll find people writing and talking about poverty & the root cause of terrorism. The only...

Elaine Byrne says that much of the wrong-doing in Irish public life was uncovered by outsiders who were not influenced by "Irish conse...

The article about the falling price of hard drive data recovery has me pondering how much would it cost to create The Six Million Dollar Ma...

The Guardian's environment blog says Paddy Power is taking bets on the world-wide population of polar bears. The key point is that the ...

Nick Cohen's column in today's Observer can't be taken seriously. First, he asserts that the New York Times is reluctant to cal...

Brian Lenihan says talk of Ireland leaving the euro "is akin to stating that Texas will leave the dollar." You're wrong Minis...

The carbon tax will put our exporters at a disadvantage and make imports more attractive to Irish consumers, according to the Irish Dairy I...

Deirdre de Burca says she hasn't been offered any EU job. I guess the Wicklow Times was a bit 'premature'. The WT said that de ...

Is Iarnrod Eireann advising New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority? Two months ago the NY Times reported that those who run New York...

Words I never thought I'd read anywhere at NYTimes.com: Sarah Palin's autobiography is "compelling and very well done." St...

If the budget includes no cut to the state pension then all talk of Lenihan being "brave" is proven to be nonsense. All the tal...

Maybe I missed it in the national press, but the Wicklow Times says our former local councillor Deirdre de Burca is abandoning politics her...

Oh, in case you were wondering, my phone never rang. I never received the call. You know, the call . From Ambassador Rooney. Inviting me ove...

I'm working on a new model for this blog, which explains the silence. It will be less essay-like and more twitter-like. Good thing, bad ...

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...