Fair weather friend or foe?
On a day when the weather finally appears to have broken I find myself in one of those office discussions you can’t win. This morning the usual tirade against the unfairness of our nation’s over...
View ArticleGet dem money grabbing foreıgners outta Mosney, say Irish racists
As Mosney residents continue to protest against the transfer of 111 people to different hostels across Ireland, an Irish Facebook group is migrating its own brand of racist invective. [Atrocious...
View ArticleThe Bricks ‘n Mortar Muppet Show
I have tried to picture the child estate agent to be: pasty and sulky, selling on satchel-warmed lemon curd sandwiches or a half-eaten Mars bar in the school playground for a stupidly inflated price....
View ArticleLiving the American scream
On Thursday night I accompanied a pal to a debate at Trinity College just as the government announced free cheese for its citizen mice and Met Éireann breezed on about an approaching hurricane. Most...
View ArticleBeing depressed just means you’re not a moron
I once bled onto a Flintstone sock for four days in a Ballsbridge bedsit ’til it was hard enough to slash through human flesh or qualify for a Garda weapon’s seizure. Another time the man I was...
View ArticleWooden Heart?
We have one of the lowest percentages of forest cover in Europe (and it’s mostly Sitka spruce, though broadleaf trees now make up 20 per cent of new planting) though we’re supposed to be increasing...
View ArticleSomalia
Babies are dying in the Horn of Africa. Their pitiful faces, and the faces of their mothers are being beamed into our living rooms; they are on the Internet and they are in our newspapers. We are...
View ArticleThe World Should Listen to Marilyn Waring
Perhaps the most distressing statistic emerging from the current economic crisis is that the suicide rate in Greece is reported by the Wall Street Journal to have risen by at least 40%. The Greek...
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