Occasional Scribbles

On the back page of yesterday's Irish Independent there is a story at the top of the page about how a cardinal tells a victim to 'st...

Christoph Schlingensief, who was considered one of the most important figures in the German theatre has died. Schlingensief, who was also a ...

This column appears today in the regional papers in Ireland owned by Independent News and Media By Michael Commane The Leaving Cert results ...

Today's Frankfurter Rundschau reports that someone with the first name Maxmillian gets better marks in an exam than had he the name Kevi...

Cardinal Sean Brady’s interview on RTE Radio 1 today is a milestone in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Reading the story below gives some insight into the control and power that leading authorities really have. The crazy situations that exist....

St Kevin's Church in Harrington Street offers a Mass in Latin every weekday morning at 0800. Today there were 11 people present for the ...

Yesterday on RTE1 Radio the deputy provost of Trinity College in Dublin when talking about CAO offers said at one stage ".... have rose...

AN ICE train of German Railways travelling between Frankfurt-am-Main and Paris hit a dust cart near Lamprecht in the Pfalz on Tuesday. The h...

The week that Irish Rail is condemned for its careless maintenance programme it raises its fares. Up to now if you bought a ticket on the i...

John A Murphy has a letter in today's Irish Times Letter which the reader is given the correct spelling and meaning of the spot where Mi...

RTE last evening filmed an hour long programme on Ireland's ten greatest ever sports persons. Vincent O'Brien, Roy Keane, George Bes...

A cleric, presumably a priest, all dressed in black top to toe, wearing a 'cornered hat with tassel' is asked going into church what...

And all the talk about the resigning bishops, who are not resigned. The usual suspects the usual comments. But who are the people in the Vat...

In late July Irish Rail celebrated 150 years operations at Birdhill station and the oldest man in the village unveiled a plaque. Beside the ...

The article below appears in today's Irish Times. An interesting idea. Another idea might be if churchgoers decided for a number of Sund...

Cyril Moran was a kind, quiet and inoffensive man. While living in Sligo in the mid-1980s I knew Cyril from his visits to the Dominican chur...

Wikileak’s online release of Afghanistan war logs throws up interesting information on the war in Afghanistan. In The Irish Times of Saturda...

Tomorrow 65 years ago, August 6, 1945, the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The article below appears this week in all the Irish regional newspapers of Independent News and Media. By Michael Commane I think it’s true...

German television station ARD broadcast a programme this evening 'Where were you'. It was a documentary on how a number of people ex...

Is anything at all changing in the mind set of establishment catholicism in Ireland? In the current issue of the Irish Catholic columnist B...

This morning in the Salvatorkirche in the German city of Duisburg there was a service of remembrance for those killed in the disaster in the...

The article below appears this week in the regional papers of Independent Newspapers. Has any organisation or institution ever been so much ...

Last evening Channel 4 showed an hour-long documentary on the rise and fall of the Concorde. The programme brought you right into the mind s...

The obituary of Fritz Teufel in Saturday's Irish Times is well worth a read. There certainly has to be an allegorical content to it. Wha...

On Sunday there was an incident on the railway near Mountrath where a man lost his life. The following day an Irish national newspaper repor...

Monday July 12 marks six months since the earthquake in Haiti. This week Morning Ireland is reporting from the country and Ireland's. Pe...

In the weekly newsletter of the Dominican priory in Tralee, dated July 4, there is an editorial-type comment, which compares democracy in th...

This link brings you to the famous Stanley McChrystal interveiw. Well worth a read. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

Below is an opinion piece written by Vincent Twomey, which appeared in The Irish Times on Tuesday, June 29. What is it about the article tha...