On Mass
My mass stories are piling up, and I’m afraid I’ll forget them. I’m not sure if I’m ready to start on exactly why I go to mass, but I can say I enjoy it immensely. I read an article once … Read more
Category Archives: Domestic/Relationships
Useless Housewives can save the economy
Announcement: My column in The Sunday Times is concluding this week! I start in The Irish Times this Wednesday (22nd). For the moment they are cool with me publishing the columns on the blog, so though I am posting very … Read more
No more kissing
In a horizon-broadening move, I bought tickets for No Man’s Land at The Gate. My sister readily agreed to come along even after I briefed her on what to expect. “This is Pinter, so its not going to be fun: … Read more
Enda Kenny
Enda Kenny tells a story describing his annual summer holiday in Co. Kerry. Each year he looks forward to getting the bike out and making an attempt at the Conor Pass. In the summer of 2006, he’d been struggling mightily … Read more
Woah….
Wow..well there ya go. Looks like a No.
Well done to the No campaigners, they were good. They had great posters and a consistent message. The Yes was continually on the defence and had to explain why the No’s were … Read more
Seven Days
I took part in Seven Days today, the BBC Radio Ulster show which was being broadcast from Dublin today – a special on the Lisbon Treaty. (It’s the awful BBC iplayer though!)
Pat Carey, FF Government Whip (no relation) and … Read more
Lord on Ahern
Farmers have a right to beef
LAST Monday night found me in the Ardboyne Hotel in Navan with a bunch of farmers, educating myself about the World Trade Organisation. Unsurprisingly, out of the 100 or so present there was just one lady farmer, and a total … Read more
More Lisbon
The original post is getting old (and with 90 comments too much to scroll through!) though those interested should read them as there are most enlightening.
However, I thought I’d start a fresh thread with news that the highly knowledgeable … Read more
Galway Tent Off
Now it’s all, “Tent, what tent? oh THAT tent? ah, sure I never went anyway or if I did, it was only once cos I had to.”
Just today (on random programmes as I was out most of the day)… Read more