Y ou would wonder what has happened in the Blogosphere.  Fellow bloggers are dropping off like flies from a Vapona stick and even the aggreg...

I 'm sure some of you have been there.    You're wondering how best to proclaim your Irishness, and finally settle on the idea of a...

R eaders will know that the subject of property-based tax reliefs has been covered before on the blog, particularly their effect in inflatin...

I am sick of “speed” bumps, I really am. They do not work. Put it this way, they do nothing to deter dozy, unobservant, inattentive dri...

A recent survey by the Irish League of Credit Unions found that one-in-four Irish people had less than €20 a week to live on, after they ha...

T his is great.  So many suggestions and leads are dropping into the Gombeen Nation mailbox that I hardly have to write blog posts any more!...

I t is nice to see that the great Irish public has finally accepted that child abuse by the Catholic Church - and the State that entrusted i...

L eft-wing TD, Mick Wallace, runs the  risk of being labeled a muppet after referring to  Dail colleague, Mary Mitchell O'Connor,  as ...

T he Government is asking the public to suggest ideas on where savings can be made in regard to State spending.  Specifically, what practice...

T hose folk at Allsop, the UK auctioneers, must be delighted with themselves having tapped into the Irish “fire sale” market.  It has been s...

N ot long ago, plans to provide Dubliners with real-time signage indicating when buses were due had to be put on ice after complaints were m...

I t has been said here before  -  the spirit of Irish entrepreneurship never really developed beyond opening a pub, or stowing a bit of cash...

B ig thanks to a reader for bringing our attention to this one. Anyone out there still want a united Ireland?  Maybe the spoof site DUP...

M uch as I give out about the place, there are some things I have always liked about Dublin and, well, Ireland. Not many, mind, but the ab...

I s the green carpet about to be pulled out from under the cosy feet of the Gaelscoil movement? Its adherents loved telling us how popular...

O ne of the central arguments for a united Ireland used to be demographics.  The idea was that the supposed higher fertility rate of Catholi...

S anctimonious hypocrite Bono (some say), and his smug U2 cohorts,  last night faced a Glastonbury protest centred on the band's record ...

S ometimes it seems those dastardly Brits know the Irish better than the Irish do themselves.   Take Allsop, the auctioneers who sold off “...

B loody and unbowed after its recent courtroom scrap with Rosanna Davison and Daddy de Burgh on the "r-word" issue, it's hard ...

O h Jaysus...  I'm here splitting my sides at this newspaper clipping sent in by a reader, about the wedding festivities of a certain An...