Today's Sun (I know) says that England's manager F. Capello allowed the team to have a few beers on Monday night. The paper says he...

Today the Irish Times tells us that tax relief on health insurance costs the state around €400m per year. They arrive at that figure by sim...

Another Leaving Cert blunder . The state makes the best case for getting it out of the education process. Local testing, local standards. Th...

I don't doubt Nobel Prize winner Mairead Corrigan cared deeply about the Palestinian people. Very deeply. She's emotionally invested...

It's been nearly 20 years since I lived in America. Lots of things have changed. Still, I find it hard to accept that these days only le...

Aren't we in a severe budget crisis? Aren't government bodies cutting back everywhere? I only ask because I've been wondering fo...

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The Tainaiste has suggested that universities accept students who fail the Honours Leaving Cert in Mathematics. That doesn't seem quite...

The Minister for Comms says the TV license won't exist in 2020 . Well, why don't we follow the Minister's logic on the electric...

I missed most of the 9:00 news tonight and so didn't see how (or if) RTE reported on today's news on the euro, but it's gotten a...

Maol Muire Tynan is a name I used to see regularly in the Irish Times. It also stuck in my head because I always used to wonder how you pron...

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...