Can You Spare a Euro for an Old CEO?

by | Jan 19, 2016 | Current Affairs

I had just posted the following article to Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for inclusion in their February issue, when I heard just how much of a crisis the Hand in Hand children’s cancer charity were really in. As a result the editor/publisher Cliff Carlson has...

Germany Before the Riots…

by | Jan 17, 2016 | Current Affairs

The debacle in Germany and by extension in Europe – starring a cast of refugees and economic migrants from near and far — continues to trundle on towards what promises to be an inevitably depressing conclusion, presided over by Ireland’s own CEO and...

You Can Even Mime It: ‘What’s in it for Me?’

by | Dec 18, 2015 | Current Affairs

This appears in Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’ for December, 2015.  And if you saw Councillor McElvaney in action then you can now be under no illusions as to what they think about you or the contempt in which they hold you.  In fact, if you only needed ONE reason to...

“People We Stood With, and Danced With…”

by | Nov 28, 2015 | Current Affairs

Written on the 16th of November, this is the December 2015 piece for Chicago’s ‘Irish American News.’   It is, of course, too soon to attempt any kind of serious, objective article on the Paris outrage; but on the 16th of November, as I write this, I’m already over...