Demanding that immigrants learn English, testing them on their progress, is too much. No, you can't do that. Not everyone can learn a n...

George Will argues that Chris Christie is not finished by a long shot. His path to the nomination isn't as difficult as the Trump vs Cr...

Back in May Ali Charaf Damache walked out of court a free man when an Irish judge refused an American extradition application. Damache is wa...

That's the logic of this little tidbit . Friends of the Earth estimates that the fossil fuel industry here benefits from about €386 mi...

Tonight the President of the United States confused the visa waiver program – which tens of millions of Europeans & Japanese and Aust...

Fianna Fáil's Malcolm Byrne says the state should stop (ban/outlaw?) '"inappropriate" commercialisation' of the Easte...

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 ...