For too long, Ian Paisley was the enemy of peace in Northern Ireland
As the tributes to the Rev Ian Paisley flowed from former friends and opponents over the past few days, I was reminded of the phrase: live long enough and all is forgiven. Paisley's unlikely late embrace of power-sharing in Northern Ireland, which, lest we ...
EU finance ministers back Ireland’s loan restructuring deal
EU finance ministers have backed Ireland’s bid to repay its IMF loans early, in a deal that will begin to generate savings for the exchequer before the end of the year. Speaking in Milan today after the ecofin meeting of finance ministers, Minister ...
McLeod hundred seals consolation win for Scotland over Ireland
Cricket Ireland: DUBLIN, Ireland - September 13, 2014 - Scotland's cricketers completed their three match tour of Ireland with a thumping win in the third and final ODI at Malahide on Friday although it was to be a consolation victory only with the hosts ...
This Week In Pantsuit Politics: Ireland’s Mary Robinson Has World’s Most Impressive Resume
Ready to feel like a complete and total waste of life? Meet Mary Robinson. The first female president of Ireland, Robinson led her country from 1990 to 1997, during which time she pushed through two powerfully progressive laws: one to make contraceptives ...
John Perkins Speaks Out On Public Sector Privatization
An Economic Hit Man Speaks Out: John Perkins on How Greece Has Fallen Victim to "Economic Hit Men" John Perkins "My sin was ripping off people around the world," said John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," at Transitions Bookplace in Chicago, on February 3, 2006. (Photo: Peter ...
Glendalough
Glendalough (pronounced “Glendalock”) is located in County Wicklow and is about an hours drive from UCD Belfield campus. Today, Res Life took a group of students to Wicklow Mountains National Park to see Glendalough and do a two hour hike and some sightseeing. The ride to Glendalough was what I have ...
‘Purgatory’ By Ken Bruen
Published by Mysterious Press, November, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8021-2607-8 (Hardcover) To read a Jack Taylor novel is to relive James Joyce's stream of consciousness in modern inebriated lingo. And that is a good thing because Ken Bruen is a thinking man's (or woman's) writer. In this entry Jack is recov ...
Around the Archaeology Blog-o-sphere Digest #2
Here is the second round of the Archaeology Blog-0-sphere round-up. Basically, I am highlighting some of the other archeo-blogs out there but instead of focusing on the whole blog I am going to be collecting all their posts from the last week . I realise not everyone uses an RSS reader and some peop ...
The end of Rock'n'Roll as we know it: U2's Songs Of Innocence
The control room of Studio 5 at Tyne-Tees Television in Newcastle was heaving. Members of The Tube crew, various associates of that week's studio guests (Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson, Robert Cray, Mick Hucknall) and me, crammed in for what was, undoubtedly, An Event. In silence, and with hairs uprigh ...
I Traveled Solo?!?.. Experiences with strangers, memories with friends
Before I left for Europe I expected to do the majority of my travels on my own. I thought I would be like a nomad; exploring the world in solitude and finding a new appreciation for myself and our beautiful Earth. Whilst I can definitely say that my trip has given me an even bigger appreciation for ...
Scotland’s socialists abandoning the UK.
A wee piece on Scottish independence. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first century was published in 2014. It had a huge impact upon political and economic thought. It’s main thesis explains the wealth gap and argues that if income inequality continues to increase more serious social and econ ...
Ellie Goulding to play 'secret' Dundalk gig tonight
Ellie Goulding has just revealed she's playing a secret gig in Ireland tonight.
The Only Winner this week isn't the Union - it's Fear
It's been a frenetic week in the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign (or Indyref as it is generally called now in the political blogosphere). After last weekend's poll showing YES with a narrow lead, the supporters of NO have rallied and NO now seems to have taken a small but decisive lead but ...
