Occasional Scribbles

Fr Simon Sleeman OSB - his mother has been in the news of late - was on the John Murray Show on RTE Radio One this morning. It made for inte...

The column below appears in all INM regional titles in Ireland today. By Michael Commane It’s well I was not up partying until the small hou...

How the world changes, or does it? Back in the Ireland of the 1950s a priest called almost every day to a professional couple. It eventually...

The piece below appears on the front page of today's Irish Times. THE FOUNDER of the Sisters of St Joseph, who will be canonised as Aust...

Blogging is a notorious vehicle for spreading unfounded rumour and general gossip. It gives crazy people a chance to go public. The followin...

On October 19 an Inter City Express of German Railways (DB) will arrive at London's St Pancras International Terminal. It is expected by...

Bruno Cadoré, the new man in charge of the Dominican Order has his roots in the West Indies. His grandfather emigrated to France from Martin...

This article appears in Ireland today in the regional newspapers of Independent News and Media. By Michael Commane Cycling in Dublin last we...

Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in Birmingham today. At the Mass John Henry Newman was beatified. Pope Benedict began his sermon by referring ...

British television is giving extensive coverage to Pope Benedict's official visit to Scotland and Wales. The more one reads and sees abo...

On the day that tens of thousands of Irish young people receive their Junior Cert results and an agency of the State will advise them and th...

The Irish Times has in recent weeks done a series on spotting errors. They published their results in yesterday's paper. And they had t...

The link below is well worth a read. http://francishunt.blogspot.com/2010/09/islam-integration-and-west.html

Yesterday's Irish Daily Star carried a story on soccer ace Wayne Rooney on its front page. "Apart from red-faced Roo, fame-hungry ...

The column below appears in the Irish regional newspapers of Independent News and Media. By Michael Commane When the first British troops en...

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...