S ome time ago I read - and I'm damned if I have been able to find the article since - that Van Morrison, unlike U2, had not availed o...

"I wis h it could be Christmas every day" , the song goes.   A nd, you know, as sentiments go, it's not a bad one.   Chri...

R emember Operation Freeflow ? When the coppers would do a bit of worthwhile work  by helping to keep traffic moving coming up to Christ...

W hilst flicking through one of the local freebie papers, I spotted the following reproduction from its "archives" feature:  namel...

R emember a few years back when B-B-B-Bertie was giving lectures around the world on how to run (no, not ruin) economies, and Mary Harne...

T he current disturbances in Northern Ireland – provoked by Belfast City Council narrowly voting to fly the UK flag 15 days a year  - ar...

S omeone I know rather well is employed in Meath - perish the thought - and encountered one van and a car nestling in the ditch on the way...

N ot a month after actor Gabriel Byrne described " The Gathering" – Irish officialdom's' attempt to celebrate "Iris...

I 'm not sure if Irish Rail, as a semi-state body, is subject to the Croke Park Agreement or not.   The CPA was negotiated by Fi...

Y ou will be aware of Savita Halappanavar? The woman who died having spent three-and-a-half agonising days with a miscarried foetus that U...

I don't know if any of you have had the misfortune to grace one of our courtrooms?  Or been present with someone who has?  Or even ...

H ad intended to highlight this extract from The Journal before now. A reader emailed it a week or two ago, but between one thing and ano...

J ust in case the world was forgetting what a nation of stupid, hypocritical, backward gobshites Ireland is,  University Hospital Galway ...

"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys". Old saying. B ut might things have worked out better for our  banana republic h...