Just imagine the reaction of Fintan O'Toole and Vincent Browne if Fianna Fáil ever tried a stunt like deem and pass? Just imagine the tu...

Dublin's new Grand Canal Theatre opened last night . I presume it's as spectacular inside as outside (eh, no, I don't know what...

President Obama thanked Brian Cowen for allowing American troops use Shannon as a transit stop on the way to Iraq and Afghanistan. That...

Remember last November when just about all teachers and civil servants and others went on strike for a day? That was before the budget when ...

Still working on comments. Sorry about the big delay. I'm regularly posting on Twitter . My goal is to get this blog to be more like a s...

Youth unemployment is a huge issue here, so I'm not really opposed to the state offering training for young people. The fact that the s...

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...