Occasional Scribbles

An interesting comment made by Jesuit priest Mark Massa, who is director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane With our modern technology I’m wondering...

This sounds incredible but it seems we are living in incredible times. Well worth a read. Before Photoshop arrived it made great sense to sa...

Full marks to Irish Rail. At the entrance to Casement Station, Tralee there is a properly working and efficient sanitiser. But not full mark...

The 'Thinking Anew' column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane My father was the gentlest of souls. I remember one summer mor...

“This degradation of the American experiment is real. This is tangible. Truth is no longer governing the White House statements." A quo...

From yesterday's Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/10/boris-johnson-oven-ready-brexit-cummings-withdrawal-agre...

This bird was perched on the wiper of a car windscreen on Tuesday evening. S/he was still there on Wednesday at 06.15. After some gentle coa...

Did Audrey Carville on Morning Ireland yesterday say that an EU commissioner from Ukraine was expected to get the job that Mairead McGuinnes...

Below are two tweets. The first is from US Dominican priest Pius Pietrzyk. The second is a tweet retweeted by US Jesuit priest James Martin....

This week's Independent News & Media Irish Regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane The former archbishop of the French dioc...

This is a shocking story and the picture tells it all. The little girl's tiny legs and the force of 'authority' brutalising her....

In the last number of days the media, particularly print media, seem to have changed the age for the Covid vulnerable from 70 to 75. Has the...

 This from yesterday's Guardian. Extremely worrying. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minority-teacher-50-tells-of-f...

 In 2006 there were 211 cycling injuries in the State. That figure jumped to 1,056 in 2018. The Irish Times today gives these figures but p...

This is an extract from an essay written by German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg in 2003. Pannenberg was widely read by theology students i...

RTE is using the word 'around' incorrectly. On Morning Ireland today Brian Dobson used the word 'around' when he should have...

This is a quote from David Quinn's Twitter account yesterday. "Some of the rise in electricity prices you're about to see is th...

Pedro Casaldáliga, who died on August 8, was bishop of São Félix do Araguaia in Brazil. On the day of his episcopal ordination he published ...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column Michael Commane Media coverage of QAnon is gaining attent...

On Saturday far-right protestors brandishing prohibited German national flags attempted to storm the Reichstag. German President Frank-Walte...

It so happens that Alexander Lukashenko is 66 today. He was born in Kopy, Belarus on August 30, 1954. Demonstrations continue across the cou...

The ‘Thinking Anew’ column in The Irish Times today. Michael Commane When we come across the words ‘scribes’, ‘chief priests’ and ‘elders’ w...

This is an interesting read on German philosopher Hegel. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/27/germany-finds-it-hard-to-love-hegel-2...

US presidential candidate Joe Biden gave an excellent interview with Anderson Cooper this evening. Well worth watching. Biden was on top of ...

Speaking about the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin in the US,  Doc Rivers said: ‘It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, a...

When an organisation is in the process of collapsing it would seem the majority of the management class simply don't get it. Do they eve...

Jacob Blake's lawyer Patrick Salvi spoke clearly and eloquently last evening to reporters. Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police in...

This week's Independent News & Media Irish regional newspapers' column. Michael Commane In the days after the Oireachtas golf di...

Why is everyone using the word algorithm today when before we used formula? And then there are the two meanings of the word fulsome. One mea...

Ned Foley's uncle once said to him in late August: 'It’s getting late early’.  Ned Foley is a 98-old Dominican priest. A gentleman a...