October, 2011

Well. This election was dull, dull, dull. Until, that is, one Martin McGuinness announced that he was running. Then there was a sharp intake of breath in Dublin 4 and the media went into frenzy mode. This gradually diminished to a lower, near-tedium level (“These bloody debates, I’ve had a bellyful”) until Monday night when […]

Well. This election was dull, dull, dull. Until, that is, one Martin McGuinness announced that he was running. Then there was a sharp intake of breath in Dublin 4 and the media went into frenzy mode. This gradually diminished to a lower, near-tedium level (“These bloody debates, I’ve had a bellyful”) until Monday night when […]

Well – that was a debate. No need for the strong coffee or smelling salts to keep the eyes open until the end of RTÉ’s Frontline  programme with Pat Kenny.  How did they do? 1.     Higgins: he kept his head down for the most part, only raising it to go on about ‘a new Ireland’ […]

Well – that was a debate. No need for the strong coffee or smelling salts to keep the eyes open until the end of RTÉ’s Frontline  programme with Pat Kenny.  How did they do? 1.     Higgins: he kept his head down for the most part, only raising it to go on about ‘a new Ireland’ […]

Apparently there’s a brouhaha in Derry about some youngsters getting dressed up in Osama bin Laden outfits. Quite a number of people are upset by it – they see it as being in very poor taste. Well I suppose if I had had a relative or friend killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, […]

Apparently there’s a brouhaha in Derry about some youngsters getting dressed up in Osama bin Laden outfits. Quite a number of people are upset by it – they see it as being in very poor taste. Well I suppose if I had had a relative or friend killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, […]

Money: it would drive you mad if you let it. Can’t live without it, can’t live er um, well actually most of us figure we could live quite nicely thank you with it. Last weekend, Edwina Currie was on Stephen Nolan’s BBC Radio Five Live show expressing her serious, serious doubt that anyone in Britain […]

Money: it would drive you mad if you let it. Can’t live without it, can’t live er um, well actually most of us figure we could live quite nicely thank you with it. Last weekend, Edwina Currie was on Stephen Nolan’s BBC Radio Five Live show expressing her serious, serious doubt that anyone in Britain […]

Well, good news tonight or what! Isn’t it wonderful? Mind you I’m against killing people as a general rule but some people you just have to, well, kill them.  There’s no other word for it. For the sake of the world. If Muammar Gaddafi had had his way it would have been Libya today, Russia […]

Well, good news tonight or what! Isn’t it wonderful? Mind you I’m against killing people as a general rule but some people you just have to, well, kill them.  There’s no other word for it. For the sake of the world. If Muammar Gaddafi had had his way it would have been Libya today, Russia […]