Simply unreal. The water regulator (aka the Commission for Energy Regulation) says metering should stop so that there is money to repair th...

James Doorley of the National Youth Council says that 16 & 17 year-olds should be allowed to vote . That's utter nonsense. They'...

In the past few days I've seen articles about pictures Melania Trump posed for back in the 1990s - before she was married - and stories ...

© Daily Express I don't get the logic that says the Brexit referendum has left the UK divided . Well, maybe it has, but wasn't i...

I was listening to "Morning Edition" on NPR this morning and during their discussion of the Democrats' battle they referred to...

Lech Walesa is one of the great heroes of the 20th century. That some in Poland - including the current government, it seems - see fit to la...

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...