Occasional Scribbles

Twenty years ago today 101 people lost their lives in the rail crash at Eschede in northern Germany. Many more were maimed for life. The loc...

A great piece in Saturday's Guardian  on the Trump administration. Also, highly recommended James Comey's A Higher Loyalty. It...

Isn't this a great sentence.  You can see the ripening corn in the fields of Iowa and President Trump's face  or mind too. Whi...

Great excitement on the Liffey this weekend. More tall ships due in today. These two aliens on their way to board LE Orla. ...

Below is the editorial in the current issue of The Tablet. POLITICIANS AND the media on both sides of the Irish Sea have greeted the resu...

Today is the anniversary of the death of Dominican priest Paul Hynes. Paul died of cancer on June 1, 1985, in his 52nd year. He was ...

Dominican priest Eddie Conway died in the Mater Private Hospital yesterday. He died some days short of his 66th birthday. Eddie made his...

Pope Francis in Rejoice and be Glad writes: “God is mysteriously present in the life of every person, in a way that he himself chooses, ...

A former high school teacher who wrote to Mr Trump was unhappy with the letter she got in return.  “Poor writing is not something I abi...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane What do you remember from your s...

Below is the editorial in the current issue of  The Tablet. A great read. Surely it's as clear as day that Pope Francis is aware...

Humans make up a mere 0.01 per cent of life on the planet and have destroyed 83 per cent of all wild mammals on earth .

The 'Thinking Anew' column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane Cycling one morning on a main road I came to a junction. ...

Last year 29.2 per cent of commuters in Dublin used the car, 28.8 per cent the bus. Bicycles were used by 5.9 per cent, 16.3 per cent travel...

“There is truth and then again there is truth.  "For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got y...

Elizabeth Hurley on Hugh Grant: "Having these kids has transformed him from a very miserable person into a fairly miserable person....

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane Stopped at traffic lights on Dub...

The editorial in the current issue of Kerry's Eye.

Comments heard while listening to Radio Maria. There is no competition between us and God. As Catholics we believe when God made us ...

Editorial in the current issue of The Tablet. Ireland deserves admiration for the dignified and intelligent manner it has debated the ab...

Dublin Bus services were paralysed yesterday evening. Services out of the city which should normally run every five to ten minutes were ...

On Monday Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the word truth many times while attending the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem...

Yesterday's newspapers reported that water at a number of Irish beaches fail to meet EU standards for clean water. On full tide Seap...

On this fine spring morning in Dublin, Lines written in early spring by William Wordsworth I heard a thousand blended notes,  While i...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane I was reminded of that line in S...

Former British Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell died late on Saturday evening. Some months back she spoke in the House of Lords abou...

Dublin Bus collected close to €6 million in unclaimed  bus fare change in six years. What happens the money? Does Bus Átha Cliath keep t...

Is it time for an outside agency to do a root and branch study of priestly formation? There is something systemically out of order within pr...

From the current issue of The Tablet. ONE CARDINAL described it as “incomprehensible”. An anonymous church source was quoted as saying ...