Rants
The Return of The King: The enigma of Roy Keane…
National hero or national disgrace? War in Japan Roy Keane - Photo: Shane Whelan, a2zsoccer.com I can still...
Michael McDowell Wants More Gardai With Guns
Tough on crime, or tough on the symptoms of crime? The Irish Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, appears...
11M – The Bombing of Madrid
Spain is bleeding... Today, it is difficult to write or speak with any degree of dispassion. The events...
Anthromorphism and Fast Food TV Culture
OK, so I'm an animal lover. But I'm sick of the over-the-top anthromorphism that kids are being fed....
The Hubris: Man Made GloFish
Another amazing step for humankind! The invention of a fish! That Glows! In the Dark! Oh... the humanity......
Feck Off! A Blather Primer to Irish Slang
Getting to grips with Hiberno English at home and abroad... An earlier incarnation of this article appeared on...
A Tale of Two Presidents
So. They 'got him' as Bremner so eloquently put it... Indeed, it would appear that after thirty years...
Charlie McCreevy, Globalisation and the Rise of the Machines
What do McCreevy, Arnie and a load of robots have in common? Arnold Schwarzenegger, fresh from machine-gunning his...
Loyalty Cards, Big Brother and the Scared New World
Just what is the price of consumer loyalty... Loyalty cards, a subject in which I am intensely interested,...
We’re all gonna die!
Ah bollocks. It's the end of the world again... Ah bollocks. It?s the end of the world again....