Occasional Scribbles

This week's INM regional column. Michael Commane Will the following two scenarios make you reconsider your way of thinking about th...

Spiegel Online today shows how Russian authorities falsified satellite images so as to blame Ukraine for the shooting down of MH17 as it fle...

Tess taking a break while walking around the reservoir at Bohernabreena. Far less strenuous than the usual weekend walk but this time, on th...

There has been an amount of publicity on making public the sums of money Irish farmers received in 2014 under the EU Common Agricultrual Pol...

What makes people do it? Pizza shop in Rathgar.

Comments from two wise elderly men. 1. "I would really like to do a study on the link between the libido and our journey in spiritu...

Not much sun about today but in those few moments when the sun did shine, Tess, as opportunistic as ever, managed to catch it. But as so...

Much acclaimed RTE journalist Bill O'Herlihy will be buried today after Requiem Mass in Foxrock. Bill had Dominican connections. His...

Why does the gear control on the bicycles opearted by dublinbikes work in reverse to the gear control on all conventional bicycles? It s...

What happens if the United Kingdom leaves the EU? IAG will no longer be within the EU. Where does that place Aer Lingus? It would seem that ...

The piece below is from the online version of today's Irish Independent. The bishop emeritus of Killaloe said he could not suppor...

Below is this week's INM Irish regional newspaper column Michael Commane On Thursday I went to visit a school friend, who is in hospi...

This week's Sunday Independent  carries an interesting piece on buzzwords and clichés in the English language. The writer of the art...

Yesterday Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said that the Irish Cathoic Church needs to do a reality check. The Irish Catholic Church has been in...

The first item on the main ARD German news this evening was today's marriage referendum result in Ireland. Health Minister Leo Varadkar ...

The piece below is the 'Thinking Anew' column in today's Irish Times Michael Commane A neighbour of mine once said that what ...

When it comes to designing a voting paper the Irish State should employ new designers. Today's balott papers were unclear and confusing....

Whatever the result in today's marriage referendum it would seem that there is a more open and tolerant attitude towards people of homos...

Eight years ago it was estimated that there were at least 875 million guns in the world. Today, if you include antique and homemade guns, th...

On yesterday's page three of the Irish Times three men wrote on the  upcoming referendum. Fintan O'Toole and Patsy McGarry wrote in ...

Below is an argument to vote No in Friday's marriage referendum. It is followed by a response to the piece. The reply is in favour of a...

In An Irishman's Diary in Saturday's Irish Times Frank McNally writes a funny piece about the use of language, better said, its misu...

Award-winning Russian journalist Masha Geesen was interviewed by Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's 'Begin the Week' this morning. ...

There are approximately 3,700 prisoners in the Irish State. Each prisoner costs €60,000 annually. The majority of prisoners were une...

The Irish Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Ascension today. The Irish bishops moved it from Thursday to this Sunday. The Ascens...

Tess on the top of Scarr (641 metres) today. Wicklow was looking exquisite. Cold and windy too but spring so evident everywhere. Skylark...

Miriam Lord in her column in today's Irish Times quotes Martin Luther King. It was a quote Ursula Halligan used in the article she wrote...

Card readers on all Dublin Bus vehicles can now read the newly issued Public Services Card, which includes the Free Travel pass.

The piece below is an extract from an article written by Brendan Hoban. "There’s a lively sub-culture in Irish Catholicism of indivi...

Below is a quote from Jonathan Jones, writing in the Guradian on the sale of Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O). The painting ...

Seen in Dublin this morning: a Dublin Bus driver with one hand on the steering wheel and a mobile phone in the other hand.