“Zakłócenia w ruchu powodują zmiany w czasów odjazdu” reads the sign pinned immediately below the summer bus timetables in the Polish town where I have been spending the holidays. Now
The ongoing hoo-ha over Aer Lingus allocating its Heathrow slots to Belfast at the expense of Shannon offers insight into how Fianna Fail manages to stay in power. It’s a twist on the old “
Although overhearing Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh‘s febrile radio commentary at an impressionable age inoculated me against any interest in GAA sports, I can understand the appe
Leavening tracks from the latest band du jour from Montreal with golden oldies from Bowie, Mozzer, et. al, Tom Dunne’s evening show on Today FM, Pet Sounds, offers thirtysomethings who have long
Hodges Figgis, on Dublin’s Dawson street, is having one of its periodic stock-clearance sales that may make you regret coughing up full price the first time around. One of the stacked books I sp
In late July The Guardian highlighted the UK’s inability to deliver major infrastructural projects for a reasonable price by asking “Are these the world’s costliest roadworks ?”
Last week, I witnessed RTE’s business correspondent flail on the 9 O’Clock News as he attempted to explain to an impassive-looking Anne Doyle why fears over subprime mortgages had fueled s
Shane Barry, in the blog above this monkey, has taken a certain amount of umbrage at the Rough Guide’s suggestion that Ireland (Republic and North of) are amongst the “most backward places
My critique of the “built environment” in Ireland’s countryside might have struck a few readers as unnecessarily harsh–like Tom “Spar” Doorley reviewing the deli se
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