Last week’s Polityka has an article on that most intrusive of the arts: architecture. Like their fellow members of the ??e-elity at the Gazeta Wyborcza, they seem think it a terrible shame that Poles are so backward looking. They just don’t appreciate the efforts made by thrusting, forward-looking engineers — errr, I mean architects of […]
Generations of quaffing Trinner students might find themselves getting slightly sentimental at the following news:”STUDENTS’ drinking patterns will never be the same again at TCD.The famous Buttery Bar at the college is closing due to a sustained slump in trade.” (More from the Indo)The report also states that “authorities at Trinity are imposing rules to […]
In the 21st century, the lowest form of wit is uploading a jpg that made you smirk:
While the government remains paralyzed by crisis, the world, especially the business world, keeps on spinning. Ryanair’s announcement that it had already bought 16% of Aer Lingus’s shares and was intending to take over the company outright appeared to come from out of the blue, reported as breaking news off the wires this morning. I […]
Just after 9.30 PM, Irish time. The following has just been posted on the RTE site: RT� News has learned that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern may have bought his home from an individual who attended the controversial Manchester dinner at which he received �8,000 while Minister for Finance.Documents suggest that businessman Miche�l Wall may have sold […]
A few words on the political situation here. The coalition is broken and PiS is looking around for MPs it can persuade to jump ship and join them. How to persuade them? Well, with the promise of jobs of course – a secretary of stateship for you, for instance. A PiS official was secretly filmed […]
(Adapted from Merriam-Webster Online) Main Entry: 2shoddy Function: adjective Inflected Form(s): shod�di�er; -est 1 : made wholly or partly of shoddy 2 a : cheaply imitative : vulgarly pretentious b : hastily or poorly done : INFERIOR c : SHABBY , DISREPUTABLE
A sense of weariness with gombeen politics means I find it burdensome to comment on the farce that unfolded in the D�il yesterday. Alas, events perhaps reflected Beckett’s resigned observation: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”On the radio this morning, presenter Cathal Mac Coille attempted to shame arch-waffler Miche�l Martin into […]
I’m aware that I risk becoming a crashing bore by banging on about the latest Irish political crisis, which in the global scheme of things appears irredeemably petty and parochial. It’s just that the kerfuffle over Bertie Ahern’s financial improprieties represents one of those episodes that forces you to recognize that a substantial proportion of […]
Taking pot shots at holy cows without even troubling to study the deeper philosophical issues involved — especially where a recently deceased and well-loved public figure is involved — is a cheap and nasty way of drumming up some publicity, which has a long and dishonorable history. So here goes: two of the most respectable […]
