Occasional Scribbles

Great piece in The Tablet  this week on 'The Corbyn effect' by Jonathan Tulloch. He descibes how he attended last summer's Durha...

The link below is to an article on Carindal George Pell, which appeared in yesterday's Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/austral...

PC Wayne Marques of the London Transport police was interviewed on a number of UK television stations yesterday about the London Bridge atta...

The US Secretary of The Treasury Steven Mnuchin married at the weekend. Mr Mnuchin has an estimated net wealth of $300 million.

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane While stopped at traffic lights o...

Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy told Emily Maitlis on BBC's Newsnight this evening that he believes there is a coverup concerning th...

On this day, June 26, 1963 President JF Kennedy made his famous speech at the Berlin Wall, where he said: ich bin ein Berliner . But his...

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was greeted with rapturous applause when he addressed festival goers at Glastonbury on Saturday. ...

Aircraft of German airline Lufthansa are seldom if ever seen at Schönefeld, which is 20 kilometres south east of Berlin and in the state of ...

The 'Thinking Anew' column that appears in The Irish Times today.  Michael Commane Last Saturday was one of those special Ir...

Below a paragraph from Katie Hopkins' piece in "The Daily Mail'. Whatever about her political knowledge, someone might thin...

Jeremy Corbyn gave a stellar performance in parliament yesterday as he did the day before as he does on the  streets and foothpaths wherever...

An interesting article in  The Tablet of June 17 titled "Beyond the abortion wars" by Charles Camosy, who is associate professor o...

On this day, June 21, 1963 Cardinal Montini was elected pope. He took the name Paul Vl.  He died in 1978 and was succeeded by John Paul...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Today marks the 10th anniversary of this blog. ...

According to a Gates Foundation study 10 per cent of the world's population is obese. And at the same time, one billion people on th...

Yesterday was of course the warmest day of the year. And in such weather is there anywhere more fabulous than Ireland? The walk from...

The Irish Catholic Church celebrates today the feast of Corpus Christi. The current issue of Spirituality  carries an article by Michael...

The  Frankfurter Rundschau refers to him as  The master of political power'. Heulmut Kohl, known as the 'Chancellor of German un...

National Bicycle Week Ireland runs from June 10 to June 18. It so happens that the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, Rainier Maria Woelki ...

Below is the link to today's Leaving Certificate German Higher Level German Paper. https://www.examinations.ie/tmp/1497643002_98163...

Judith Blakeman a Labour councillor on the Kensington and Chelsea Borough described on Channel 4 News last evening how people in authority h...

According to the last census Limerick and Ballybeg in Waterford are two of the unemployment blacspots in the country. What do the Irish Domi...

Fr Vincent Kennedy died on June 7 at the Dominican community in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. On the closing of the Dominican priory in Limerick...

Below is a link to a letter, written by David McConnell, which appears in The Irish Times  today. If you cannot open this link, then check...

On this day, June 14, 1968 the  Czech government announced liberalising reforms under Alexander Dubček. Is it possible to say that what ...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column Michael Commane How important are words? Does it m...

Isn't politics a funny game? In The Irish Times of Saturday, June 3, Denis Staunton wrote that "In some places the party leader...

Although weather forecast for the region was for heavy consistent rain for yesterday afternoon along the east coast, not a drop of rain. ...

Fifty years ago today, June 10, 1967,  Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt ended the ' Six-Day War' with the help of the United Na...

The current issue of The Irish Catholic  carries an article titled "Nuns should stand up for life and pull out of deal" written by...