After listening to the last few minutes of Pat Kenny's show today I'm ready to explode. Okay, his panel was stuffed with Obamaphiles...

I posted this on Twitter earlier: One year anniversary of Obama's election. He can still right ship, but Brown's win ends European d...

RTE & the Irish Times have been trumpeting President Obama's success in getting his health care proposals through the various stage...

I don't know what happened to the comments. Something seems to have changed with Haloscan.com. I can't access my account. I hope all...

On Friday the Minister for Education, panicked by complaints from teachers and parents and the press, announced all schools were closed unti...

At a minimum pretty much every kid in the state is going to miss a week of school due to the weather. So are the teachers. http://bit.ly/7km...

We're a long way from out of our economic disaster, but the EU is ready to bash our hopes of recovery again. Yesterday's Sunday Busi...

Brenda Power says that the pajamas in daytime phenomenon is connected to the culture fostered by the Lone Parents Allowance. The LPA is a d...

From today's NY Times: Christmas Day terror attempt may stop Guantanamo closing Man appointed by Pres Obama to lead investigation into w...

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 ...