by charley | Aug 5, 2015 | Current Affairs
Beware Irish Politicians Bearing Advice to Greeks Plus: Chancers Stephen Donnelly and James Charity Originally written for the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ in mid-July (before I went into shock at hearing about Irish white-collar criminals going to jail) and...
by charley | Jul 14, 2015 | Current Affairs
The Good, the Bad… and the Tragic. Plus: Councillor Mike Cubbard Originally written for the Chicago ‘Irish American News’ in mid-June, when there still seemed some hope of a Summer. Anything appearing in this column today will seem hideously irrelevant, as it...
by charley | Jul 14, 2015 | Current Affairs
If You Are Offended by the Word ‘Nigger’ Then Stop Reading Now. I was up in Castle Road, Oranmore, just a couple of weeks back. That’s Oranmore, County Galway. There I was, just enjoying the sunset and looking at the castle, when I heard the most unmerciful...
by charley | Jul 7, 2015 | Current Affairs
Normally, when people go on the Joe Duffy Show, they are angry. Many of them have a right to be angry and this is their way of getting it off their chest. Catherine Byrne, showing the rigorous intellectual discipline that we have come to expect from the overpaid...
by charley | Jul 6, 2015 | Current Affairs
It’s a funny thing: the more that Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his little toy wind-up Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, put the boot into Greece prior to this weekend’s referendum, the smaller in stature the two seemed to get. And they never looked all that big to me in...
by charley | Jul 4, 2015 | Current Affairs
“I go to the shopping centre on the weekend, like most normal people. I try my best with my budget, to fill it out and get what I need.” I don’t really post much on this part of the blog these days. Truth is, I haven’t the stomach for it anymore; and people like the...
