The SDLP's Mark H Durkan issued a statement letting all and sundry know that he has "contacted Transport NI asking them to make th...

At first I was annoyed that the Mets playoff game on Friday doesn't start until 9:45, but then I thought about it: why should I be annoy...

I don't know anyone who was more opposed to the plastic bag charge when it was brought in. I complained about it on this blog a few tim...

MacArthur watches the Japanese surrender. Were the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? Eamonn McCann , the Irish Times editori...

I missed this bit of nonsense from Alan Kelly last week, but I almost laughed myself silly when I saw it in today's Irish Times : Last ...

Wait! Cyclists have to have insurance ? I never knew that. " Close to 200,000 bikes have been bought under the Bike-to-Work scheme si...

Electric cars, massive windfarms, carbon taxes - the government has dedicated a lot of our resources to "doing our bit" in the fig...

There are times when Facebook gives me the creeps with the people it suggests I add as a friend. No reflection on the people themselves, wha...

Philip Irwin of the ASTI attempts to justify his union's ridiculous strike action today with a column in the Irish Examiner . He makes a...

Okay, I know this subject that is not quite suitable for civilized discourse, but this has to be said: the absolute worst new technology dev...

The Seanad passed a bill today to outlaw smoking in cars carrying children. It will, apparently, sail through the Dáil and become law. Than...

This headline from the Daily Telegraph annoys me: British teenager dies after shooting of US police officer . And, yes, I realize that the u...

It's possible Dr Timofey Agarin is not a native English speaker. If that's the case, then someone at the Belfast Telegraph should ha...

Maybe it's my jaundiced eye, but I can't help thinking that this is a "bad thing" in the mind of the journalist who wrote ...

I love this one sentence. I know nothing about the move to rename a bridge in Limerick after JFK. I don't know the Shannon Bridge in L...

Clare Daly asked Ruairí Quinn about a secondary school in Lusk, Co Dublin looking for parents to buy €700 "iPad systems" (her wor...

Tesco, Dunnes & Superquinn are losing out to the "the lower price stores." In fact, five times as many people are shopping in...

Look I don't believe there are any angels in politics, especially American politics. That my side is as capable of turning to dirty tri...

I'm as keen to NOT pay tax as the next person, but I gotta admit the Revenue Commissioners' web site sure is efficient and easy to u...

The Seanad is "elitist." I just can't get over how many times I've seen that on Twitter. What exactly makes it elitist? Oh...