by charley | May 21, 2016 | Current Affairs
Norman Bates, Freddy Krueger, Enda Kenny & Me This piece appears in Chicago’s Irish American News for June, 2016 “Would we be better off without slasher films? I don’t think it really makes the Top Ten of things we would be better off without. I think that...
by charley | May 6, 2016 | Current Affairs
As we in Ireland approach seventy days without a government it is beyond simply disheartening to watch the endless cynicism with which our politicians manipulate election results in order to ensure their own greedy survival into another long period at the Golden...
by charley | Apr 25, 2016 | Current Affairs
This article is from the May, 2016 issue of Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’. Forgive those who trespass against us…That’s a big one, isn’t it? That’s a really big one. I’m not getting that at all. I’m trying; but I’m just not having much success. It’s exactly a...
by charley | Apr 13, 2016 | Current Affairs
The Psychopath Test A Journey through the Madness Industry (Just for a change, I think that this piece belongs on both blogs…) ‘But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths,’ I said. ‘Serial-killers ruin families‘ shrugged Bob. ...
by charley | Mar 25, 2016 | Current Affairs
From the April 2016 issue of Chicago’s ‘Irish American News’. At this stage – the third week in March – I should be able to report that the dust has settled on the February election and that for good or bad the country is back to business. I SHOULD be able to,...
by charley | Mar 20, 2016 | Current Affairs
I can’t say that I was sorry to see that Lorraine Higgins has been unsuccessful in getting nominated to stay on as a Senator. A lady who comes across as singularly condescending and unpleasant, she is so enamoured of her own appearance that if she were made of...
