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Sarah Carey (Irish Independent, January 18) paints an interesting picture of the Catholic Church worldwide and in Ireland. 2020 is likely to be a momentous year for the Church in Dublin and the island of Ireland. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has clearly indicated he will submit his resignation letter to Pope Francis in a few months’ time when he reaches his […]
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Last week may go down in history as the one in which Donald Trump was impeached. Or it may be remembered as the week in which actress and hawker of New-Age wares Gwyneth Paltrow released a candle entitled ‘This Smells Like My Vagina’. In the first rough draft of history stakes, they currently appear neck and neck, Paltrow’s burning bush […]
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It’s Day Five, and if one thing has become clear, it’s that we can’t keep this up for another three weeks. Two days in, there was a sense that everything had been said. And today, to use one of Fine Gael’s many time metaphors, we’re not even at half-time yet. This is not, to use another one of FG’s laboured […]
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So, it’s game on for General Election 2020. We now have the framework, with the election date set for February 8. But into that framework fit a few very important matters. One is the incumbency question; two is the vote transfer-friendly aura which Fianna Fail has; and three is the imponderable of how many Greens will be elected, and who […]
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Our country is constantly in the grip of one national crisis or another. Every day we read about the housing problem and our crippled healthcare system. And while these crises are indeed awful, another issue has reared its ugly head once again. This crisis sometimes goes under the radar. Simply because we get used to it. Please log in or […]
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Election fever has broken out, and with it, a disfiguring rash of posters of the plumped and buffed, touched and smoothed, airbrushed to abstraction. For strangely-luminous candidates, it’s a rerun of the Euro elections where a mix-up at the printers saw Frances Fitzgerald’s teenage sister beaming beatifically from our lampposts. They say she even had to be ID’d when she […]
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(Reuters) – U.S. toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK.N) is in talks to acquire Consolidated Aerospace Manufacturing LLC (CAM), in a bid to expand its offerings to the aerospace sector, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The attempted deal illustrates how Stanley Black & Decker is seeking to diversify its business beyond tools and storage, which account […]
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Director Frank Capra’s 1939 classic movie ‘Mr Smith goes to Washington’ depicts Jimmy Stewart as a naive, tall, country guy against the grizzled political system in the US capital. He’s tall and from the country but there’s nothing naive about Phil Hogan. The European Commissioner for Trade made his first trip to the US capital to tee up a trade […]
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The big election head-to-head debate on television is often a contest within a contest. How many participants? What format? And, most important of all, when? The television element brings an inevitable dash of showbiz to voting time, playing up the importance of image, with much talk about the role of body language. It goes all the way back to 1960 […]
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Recently it seems like dog- whistle abuse has been replaced with full-blown fog-horn assaults in public discourse. The only thing more shocking than the appalling remarks made by Sinn Féin Councillor Paddy Holohan about Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was the fact the party is standing by him. His comments that “a family man should run the country” and his further questioning […]
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