I t's not that often you get to vote on something that really matters to you, is it?   I mean, as far as general elections go, you m...

W as walking through the Phoenix Park today when I came upon the spectacle you see above.   A "Gathering" event called World...

I t’s been said before on the blog that Ireland doesn’t really do entrepreneurs. I mean, there was a time when opening a pub was seen as t...

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I t takes all kinds, I suppose  -  even those who have a paraphilia with zoophilia.  In other words, humans who are sexually attracted...

T his post has nothing to do with Ireland or life in it, but we all need a break now and then.  Even me.   It's about quality and pu...

M ultinational conglomerates like Shell are well used to operating in godforsaken Third World countries.    They know how things work, ho...

Y ears ago, during a nine-year stint in London as an economic migrant, I was sitting in a pub looking at Leeds United v Someone-or-other ...

W e live in a tin-pot shithole of a country where 272 people were jailed in 2012 for not paying their RTE licence fee (some inaccurately...

I f there's one thing that got Martin Luther going it was "indulgences".    A leading mover in the 16th century Protestant R...

I magine my surprise whilst recently walking down nearby Navan Road, I spotted what looked like a dismembered horse's head placed on a...

Y ou really have to wonder about the breed of  über- scumbag being brought up these days in dear old Erin.  Particularly - I'm shamed...

" P ut former Anglo Irish Bank executives into a big sack, along with all shareholders, creditors, members of the last Irish governmen...

R egular readers will know how narrow nationalist " republicans " love to bandy the term " imperialism " about.  They...