September, 2011

God but we’re hypocrites. We pretend to be other-centred, focused beyond ourselves – and all the time we’re looking for an opening, hoping we can get a chink in the other guy’s armour. I was on the Stephen Nolan Show this morning, where people were talking about “dealing with the past”. What a glib, stupid […]

God but we’re hypocrites. We pretend to be other-centred, focused beyond ourselves – and all the time we’re looking for an opening, hoping we can get a chink in the other guy’s armour. I was on the Stephen Nolan Show this morning, where people were talking about “dealing with the past”. What a glib, stupid […]

OK,  they could maybe use a voice coach so the victory speech of the winning captain isn’t so squirm-inducing; but that aside, what a game hurling is! What. A. Game.  A grown-up kind of game where, judging by Tipperary vs Kilkenny at Croker today, no quarter is given or asked for. And the skill. My […]

OK,  they could maybe use a voice coach so the victory speech of the winning captain isn’t so squirm-inducing; but that aside, what a game hurling is! What. A. Game.  A grown-up kind of game where, judging by Tipperary vs Kilkenny at Croker today, no quarter is given or asked for. And the skill. My […]

Have you ever been to Libya? No, me neither.  But there are a lot of people in print, on radio and TV these days who have been. Or certainly from the way they report the fall of Tripoli and the collapse of the Muammar Gaddaffi regime,  they must have been, because they are as one […]

Have you ever been to Libya? No, me neither.  But there are a lot of people in print, on radio and TV these days who have been. Or certainly from the way they report the fall of Tripoli and the collapse of the Muammar Gaddaffi regime,  they must have been, because they are as one […]