In a petulant, and completely unreasonable, fit of pique I told Joe the builder to fuck off, and then I stood there looking at a half-completed kitchen and wondering what [...]

Jesus, they breed their criminals tough in Dublin. There's Martin Foley, now, a violent thug and well-known underworld figure. (Isn't it amazing how they're all called figures?) Anyway, Martin gets [...]

So it's all down to one man, is it? This fellow. Jérôme Kerviel. All his fault that the world's economic system can be brought to the point of collapse. He's [...]

This is always a ludicrous night, and not to be missed. If you're in Limerick on the 7th February and you don't go, it's for one of these reasons (tick [...]

Jesus, the bums lost again.  How many consecutive defeats is that?  I'd say about eight hundred.  They're now firmly stuck second from the bottom of the league table, 24 points [...]

A giant cloud of counterfeit dollar bills and cocaine hangs over Las Vegas as the huge Monte Carlo Hotel Casino goes up in flames. As firefighters battled the raging blaze, [...]

Suppose you conquer a country through violence, ethnic cleansing and destruction of villages. And suppose you drive out a peaceful people so that you can steal their homes and their [...]

Well, Bullet, I said. Are you feeling hungry at all? Starving! said Bullet. Hmm, I replied. That's a pity, cos there's nothing in the house. Nothing? Not a damn thing. [...]

There isn't a huge difference between the two, it seems. Scientology has no coherent scientific basis. Neither does homeopathy. Scientology exploits credulous, needy people for profit. So does homeopathy. Scientology [...]

For those who have never heard of John Waters (and they are many) let me explain. This is a fellow who has an enormously inflated sense of his own journalistic [...]