A Yellow Guard

Supreme court to hear internet defamation dispute - The Irish Times - Thu, Apr 03, 2014 I had blogged previously on the lack of clarity ...

See the full "modest proposal" here. Not ever!

With St. Patrick's Day coming up, there will be a lot of green shamrocks and leprechaun costumes being waved about, particularly here i...

This story originally caught my attention when I saw a tweet from Niall O'Dowd as I boarded a plane for a week's holiday in the U.S...

This classical Latin question of 2,000 years ago has no greater relevance than to Ireland today.  The national police force, An Garda Síoch...

From the comfort of my armchair in Washington and no longer inhabiting the ivory towers of academia, I had no idea what a shitstorm of deba...

Yesterday's post of Feilim McHugh's brilliant da, reminded me of a list from many years ago of 'Things Culchies Love'.  If y...

No really, this is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.  It is more Irish than Bono and Sinéad O'Connor dancing The Waves of T...

Ireland's Minister for Communications deserves to be moved to Minister for Transport in any Cabinet reshuffle, for he rarely misses an o...

It feels like I have been bashing Ireland a lot these past few days, but then that's like blaming someone playing Whack-a-mole for batte...

Move along, there’s nothing to see here, says Garda Commissioner - Crime & Law News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Fri, J...

Germany’s central bank backed move to burn bondholders - Irish Economy News & Headlines | The Irish Times - Fri, Jan 24, 2014 A popul...

The Alphaville blog on the Financial Times makes a very important point: "until your local stock market can adequately price one o...

Flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) The following is a short article I wrote a couple of years ago after a research trip t...