Shane Coleman doesn’t believe. CORI recently published its exhaustive Socio-Economic Review 2008 - a 240 page report detailing all aspects of poverty in Ireland. Contained therein was the startling fact that there are over 720,000 poor people living amongst us. Not only that, there are now more poor people today than there were at [...]

Once again, the socialist prime minister of Spain, the moron Zapatero, has made a laughing stock of our country by including seven middle-aged women in his cabinet, making it the first mostly female cabinet in Spanish history. El Generalisimo must be spinning in his grave like a strombola. Is this what we fought the Civil [...]

You probly have not have noticed, but in the United States of America at the moment there is a dramatic historical event taking place that will change forever the face of politics. In the race for the presidency, both of the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination are from a minority. If either Hillary Clinton [...]

Paul Tansey wrote an impressive list of economic achievements during Bertie Ahern’s tenure as Taoiseach:
On Ahern’s watch, the Irish economy almost doubled in size, while the numbers at work increased by one-half . . The unemployment rate declined from 10.4 per cent in 1997 to 4.6. In the 10 years from 1987 to [...]

A quick word on the Oscars, if only because ignoring them in the week of this site’s inauguration would be just a little too perverse. I didn’t deign to actually watch the ceremony - the last time I bothered staying up that late the winner was Titanic and, as I’m sure you can guess, the [...]

Every so often last year I would take the Metro line 9 out to its terminus in Montreuil – a suburb just east of the confines of Paris – to teach, at the town hall, one of the mayoral staff, a rather reluctant student, who needed to brush up on his English for the many [...]