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 […]
Author Jude Collins
Sorry, the past is over. It can’t be “dealt with”.
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 […]
Let’s all grow up and enjoy Gaelic games
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 […]
Let’s all grow up and enjoy Gaelic games
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 […]
Libya: the truth, the half-truth and nothing but the half-truth
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 […]
Libya: the truth, the half-truth and nothing but the half-truth
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 […]
The #Celtic boss story: you couldn’t make it up
Tom Lehrer, they say, gave up on satire the day they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, on the grounds that nothing he Lehrer could compose would rival the absurdity of reality. He should have been at Tynecastle stadium in Edinburgh on 11 May this year. That’s when a Hearts supporter called Wilson, followed […]
The #Celtic boss story: you couldn’t make it up
Tom Lehrer, they say, gave up on satire the day they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, on the grounds that nothing he Lehrer could compose would rival the absurdity of reality. He should have been at Tynecastle stadium in Edinburgh on 11 May this year. That’s when a Hearts supporter called Wilson, followed […]
The recession – treading still-deep water vs bashing your shins
There are two apparently contradictory reports in the Irish Times this morning. One says that house prices in the South excluding Dublin have fallen 40% since 2007. In Dublin the prices have dropped 49%. Clearly, an awful lot of people are an awful lot poorer. The second report notes that the number of pupils being […]
The recession – treading still-deep water vs bashing your shins
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