#GE2020: Storm Ciara brings Wind, Rain and Lefty Populism.
The full violence of Storm Ciara swept into Ireland overnight bringing with it heavy rain,…
Observational
Like Dick Spring in 1992 Mary Lou McDonald didn’t see the bounce in time
Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Fein have already made one mistake that Labour Leader, Dick…
Is this the Irish Election the ‘New Irish’ make their mark?
The Sinn Fein rise in the polls has caught me by surprise a bit. Back-to-back…
The Scholar Gypsies – When Tommy Tiernan met Joe Brolly….
Conversations with yourself are not usually encouraged as part of a healthy and balanced approach…
#GE2020 – I’d like to hear from Morgan Kelly before any Election Musketeers….
The speculation finally ended this morning and a General Election has been called for a…
Why do Fine Gael run the country like 80 grand a year is the minimum wage?
It’s 3:00 am and my Jack Russell is giving me the eye from the far…
Ricky Gervais delivered a powerful message – If we’re not too dumb to understand it….
Sometimes the tide turns in the most unexpected of places and in the most surprising…
A Christmas Carol on the grey mile for a homeless Dubliner
Ghost of Christmas Present: If he’s like to die, he better do it and decrease the surplus…
1990 – A New York Summer filled with Donald Trump and Darryl Strawberry
I spent the summer of 1990 in New York. Nassau County on Long Island to…
How NOT to win a Galway Student Union election in the 1990’s
There was a concise anecdote, amongst Arts students in U.C.G., back in the 1990’s about…
What would John Solomon make of the Tim O’Leary twitter account. Fact or Fake?
When the dust settles in the Salem Witch trials that are ongoing in the United…
The New York Times need to STOP using ‘People Familiar with the Matter’ as a source
Today, I am going to highlight some of the reporting issues, as I see…
Mayo GAA, Tim O’Leary and the Lesson of an old Twenty pound note.
It is, maybe, an unfortunate quirk of fate that Mr Tim O’Leary, of Mayo GAA…
Shane Lowry carries a torch from another great ‘People’s Champion’
I was hazily reminded of a sporting scene from the 90’s yesterday as I watched…
6 am Sunday queues for petrol. Yes Mayo are still in the championship
One of the many inconveniences of working at night is the sleep patterns. The nights…