There is currently a debate on abortion doing the rounds of the Irish blogosphere, but I don’t intend to get involved. Mainly because I’m living up to my nickname and sitting...
Edited to add my opinion at the end of the post Mary O’Rourke is a Fianna Fáil politician in her 70’s. She has served as Minister for Education in the past...
So Peter Stringfellow wants to open a lap-dancing club in Dublin. You know, give the punters a bit of a choice, because there just isn’t anywhere Dublin to see the naked...
Today is the shortest day in the year, but the 21st of December also marks the anniversary of the Republic of Ireland Act which repealed the External Relations Act and took...
The whole country had learned through the heartfelt appeals by Robert’s parents, Mark and Majella, that their son feared the dark and, aware of that, a garda charged with preserving the scene asked Fr O’Donovan to pass on a message to the family if he thought it appropriate.
Fr O’Donovan recalled: “He said, ‘I was one of two gardaà who kept watch with Robert last night . . . I would like the parents to know that Robert wasn’t alone last night – I spoke to him all the time’; and then he concluded, ‘I just wish I had a blanket to wrap around him’.”
Shamelessly lifted from DjMargra’s stuff’n’stuff comes the news that Ireland is the puppy-farming capital of Europe, mainly because of our lack of regulations. Ireland is a haven for puppy farms because...
There I was flicking around, trying to decide whether or not to put on another episode of Ultraviolet or not, when I heard a familiar name from TG4. Maidhc Dainín. Not...
EDITED Tomorrow is George Best’s funeral. There is no doubting his footballing genius. Just take a look at this compilation from the BBC. But there also is the other side, the...
Because I’m bored, and lazy, and have read a similar one before, but can’t remember where, but it still raised a smile, I give you Only in Ireland, nicked from The...
Was watching The Panel last night and they brought up the whole Willie O’Dea scandal, and I had been meaning to blog about it last week, but then everyone was joining...
Sunday was Remembrance Sunday. We don’t really celebrate[1] this here in Ireland, mainly because of the whole evil English army part of our history. This despite the fact that thousands of...
Sometimes things are just so horrific you have to back away from the very thought. I mean, we all know that the Eurovision is car-crash tv. We all know the songs...