I still cannot get over how so many Irish people found President Obama's speech inspiring or moving or just great. Whatever floats your...

Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I don't believe the story about following the messenger who led the CIA to bin Laden. What I suspect...

Kevin Myers says no one in 1981 foresaw that "microtechnology was going to transform the world." I understand what he's saying...

Fergus Finlay is asking why are young children and teenagers becoming increasingly violent. He doesn't cite any stats to show that teen...

I just read this on Twitter (from @CharlieFlanagan): Why would Judge Moriarty stitch up O'Brien, Lowry and Ben Dunne? This report is so...

If I wasn't so busy tomorrow night cutting my toenails I might have tried to get to see Ryan Tubridy interviewing Jesse Jackson at UCD. ...

I'm still shaking my head at the front page of yesterday's Irish Mirror. I only wish I'd taken a photograph of it so that I coul...

"Women are safer drivers." That's the mantra in the Irish press these past few days following the ruling by the European Court...

Okay, so Labour had their best election ever. I get it, but it would be a huge mistake for them to go into opposition now. They went into th...

My son startled me this morning. He declared that he "hates Croke Park." Seeing as he's never been there and has no reason to ...

It kills me to say this, but I agree with Dick Roche. Not about everything, but about one thing: those who are defacing his posters don'...

Éamon Ó Cuív has a really interesting letter to the editor of the Galway Advertiser . Ó Cuív's letter is in response to one published t...

I don't like Micheál Martin, although today I can't remember exactly what it is that caused me to dislike him. I know I was really f...

Enda Kenny looks more foolish every day as he trots out a new excuse for skipping tomorrow night's TV3 debate. First he wants all 5 part...

If there is one big casualty in the financial mess / bailout it's Ireland's love affair with Europe, the EU. That's over. People...

Despite the fact that I'm skeptical that independents will have anything like the effect that some of my fellow tweeters might hope, I...

There's all sorts of talk about reforming the political system. The independent candidates seem particularly in favor. Great. I'm in...

On Friday night I read on CNN's web site that Jihad Jane, Colleen LaRose, was going to change her plea to guilty to all the charges aga...

I don't go to the movies and don't read movie reviews as a rule. However a few headlines led me to believe that Colin Farrell's ...

We cannot afford for the government AND opposition to blow St. Patrick's Day in America and elsewhere. Many people put no value on these...