July, 2011

You could list a lot more but here are my five favourites. 1. “The Twelfth of July is a traditional family celebration”. Certainly that’s the impression you would have been given if you’d watched UTV the other night. Paul Clarke presented a warm, folksy account of young people licking ice-cream, old men smiling as they […]

You could list a lot more but here are my five favourites. 1. “The Twelfth of July is a traditional family celebration”. Certainly that’s the impression you would have been given if you’d watched UTV the other night. Paul Clarke presented a warm, folksy account of young people licking ice-cream, old men smiling as they […]

There’s a difference between schadenfreude and red herrings, and two men who know that to their bone marrow are Nick Clegg and Enda Kenny.I heard Nick Clegg on the radio this morning and he sounded positively bouncy. He was being asked about the Murdoch thing and he was assuring the interviewer that, whatever else his […]

There’s a difference between schadenfreude and red herrings, and two men who know that to their bone marrow are Nick Clegg and Enda Kenny.I heard Nick Clegg on the radio this morning and he sounded positively bouncy. He was being asked about the Murdoch thing and he was assuring the interviewer that, whatever else his […]

I’ll say one thing for the Twelfth – it gets you the odd good laugh. For example, take Darwin Templeton.  If you were to meet the editor of the News Letter, you wouldn’t immediately say to yourself “Here’s a man with a lively sense of humour!” How wrong you’d be. Yesterday I was on BBC […]

I’ll say one thing for the Twelfth – it gets you the odd good laugh. For example, take Darwin Templeton.  If you were to meet the editor of the News Letter, you wouldn’t immediately say to yourself “Here’s a man with a lively sense of humour!” How wrong you’d be. Yesterday I was on BBC […]

 I was watching the  evening news on RTÉ a few minutes ago and they had a thoughts-provoking item on it. Two thoughts, to be exact. No, it wasn’t the item where they showed shots of the broken bricks and burnt cars in Ballyclare, or the item where Enda Kenny is heard during the election campaign […]

 I was watching the  evening news on RTÉ a few minutes ago and they had a thoughts-provoking item on it. Two thoughts, to be exact. No, it wasn’t the item where they showed shots of the broken bricks and burnt cars in Ballyclare, or the item where Enda Kenny is heard during the election campaign […]

It sounds so stupid, it’s hard to believe there isn’t something smart lurking under the surface. The Dail Committee on Procedures and Privileges has declared that from next Autumn, when a vote on their proposals is expected to pass, TDs will have to smarten up. Dress-wise. The men will have to wear ‘tailored’ jackets, whatever […]

It sounds so stupid, it’s hard to believe there isn’t something smart lurking under the surface. The Dail Committee on Procedures and Privileges has declared that from next Autumn, when a vote on their proposals is expected to pass, TDs will have to smarten up. Dress-wise. The men will have to wear ‘tailored’ jackets, whatever […]