Enda Kenny told us in December that the financial crisis is not our fault, but yesterday he told the rest of the world that we're all mad, so which is [...]

In a joint operation with itself, the Garda Bilocation Unit has carried out simultaneous arrests of Ivor Callely in Dublin and Cork. Supt Peadar Pio, joint head of the unit [...]

If you happen to be a Reichsmarschall , senior to all other military officers in the German armed forces, and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, you're bound to think of yourself [...]

Well, aren't we the best boys and girls in the whole wide world? Yet again, we've managed to hit our targets for the Troika, and all we had to do [...]

Tom McFeely doesn't look much like a hunger striker these days, but in his IRA phase, back in 1980, he went 53 days without food in support of demands for [...]

Extreme Catholic right GOP candidate has most in common with Islamic politicians yet might have best chance of beating Obama

I don't know if Elvis Costello's views about Margaret Thatcher have mellowed at all since he wrote Tramp The Dirt Down, but I doubt it. Well I hope I don't [...]

I don't care if it rains or freezes, just as long as I got my plastic Jesus

Huge money down the drain every year to pay bondholders of defunct institutions

Ten years ago, when I visited Prague for the first time, I read a story that  encapsulated for me not only the nature of Vaclav Havel, reluctant first president of [...]