Occasional Scribbles

According to the current issue of The Tablet Catholic leaders have reacted strongly to US Attorney General William Barr’s announcement that...

This is the cleverest of pieces and seems to make great sense. A good Irish joke, written by a Guardian journalist, the son of an Irish wo...

An interview with the new Master General of the Dominican Order Gerard Timoner.. The interview took place in the Socialist Republic of Viet...

The 'Thinking Anew' column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane My mother died in 1988. I can still vividly remember the mo...

Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising. The German foreign minister Heiko Maas was in Warsaw to pay respects to the Pol...

There are 47,255 children on hospital outpatient lists. And the State last year subsidised private schools to the tune of €90 million.

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that it is easy to start a conflict but it is impossible to end it "Wh...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane Have you been in a public librar...

Irish Dominican Paul Lawlor chatting with the oldest Vietnamese Dominican Sister. The Sister was born in 1914. No doubt they are having an ...

Fr. Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III, O.P., Master of the Order, delivers the homily at Mass in the Cathedral of the Diocese of Xuân Lộc,...

In early 1965 when newly elected US President Lyndon Johnson had been asked to suply more troops to the battlefield in Vietnam he quipped:  ...

Apologies. There was inaccurate information on this blog about the location of the Dominican international meeting. It has now been ...

It was on July 28, 1965 that US President Lyndon Johnson announced  his order to increase the number of US troops in South Vietnam from 75,0...

CARDINAL Reinhard Marx of Munich, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, said he is often disappointed by the quality of homilies at Ma...

The Dominican Order is currently holding an international meeting in Biên Hòa,  Long Khanh in Vietnam.    Many of the families  living in ...

This is a brilliant article, one of the best I have ever read on the topic. It makes perfect sense. And how we are being fooled. https://ww...

This week's 'Kerry's Eye' carries a story about a disagreement between the Bishop of Kerry and the people of Kilcummin paris...

There are 468 public payphones still in operation in the State .

Someone has written to the writer of this blog. It would be greatly appreciated if the letter-writer would make contact. It could prove mo...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane   For all the time that Donald T...

Dominican priest Flannan Aidan Hynes died in Montevideo, Uruguay yesterday. He was born on April 10, 1930, which means he was 89 years-old. ...

At a ceremony in Berlin's Bendlerblock Angela Merkel warned against the move towards far-right politics, racism and anti-semitism. The...

The 'Thinking Anew' column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane Half listening to RTE Radio 1 and washing the dishes at the...

The Dominican Order is currently holding an international governance meeting in Vietnam. The Irish Province of the Order disseminates no d...

Last year on the worst day of the summer drought 315 million litres of water were consumed in Dublin.  On the same day in the capital 300 ...

On this date in 1968 Intel was founded in Mountain View California. And the following year on July 18, 1969 US Senator Ted Kennedy cras...

This sentence near the end of Anna Burns ‘Milkman’: "Even at the outer limits of absurdity and contradiction people will make up anyt...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane I have read the fallout from Leo...