Occasional Scribbles

Below is an essay written by Victoria Amelina, who was killed by a Russian missile in Kramatorsk. It is from the Guardian. It is a wonderful...

The content below is an excerpt from the current issue of The Tablet . In the life of the Catholic Church it is understood that there is a r...

In these days of the Tubridy saga, the loaned car, the flip-flops, incompetent managers and the importance and reverence we give to so-calle...

How history, at least aspects of history, weave a strange web through time. On this day, July 5, 1941 the German Army reached the Dnieper ri...

This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’ column Michael Commane Former UK cabinet minister, Brexiteer and Boris Johnson supporte...

Last year 9,610 people were before the courts for failing to pay their television licence. How many TV licence dodgers are there in the Stat...

This is long but well worth a read. A shocking story of human behaviour. It is from The Irish Times yesterday. As the overnight sleeper from...

This is a powerful interview with Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence in Russia fo...

Watching the unfolding shenanigans of the RTÉ affair is it possible that the RTÉ management might have been advised by the clerical Catholic...

In conversation with two men yesterday the following stories came to light. An elderly man was asked if he were a farmer. He replied: “I don...

Below is The Irishman’s Diary from The Irish Times yesterday. The column is written by Derek Scally, the newspaper’s correspondent in Berlin...

This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’ column Michael Commane The BBC has reported that the Russians have lost at least 25,000...

Below is an article by Catherine Pepinster in the current issue of The Tablet. Ms Pepinster is a former editor of The Tablet. It makes for a...

Former UK cabinet minister and Boris Johnson supporter, Nadine Dorries in an interview in the Financial Times Weekend said: “I’m Liverpool I...

Below is a press release from the Archdiocese of Dublin issued on Thursday, June 22.   The Archdiocese of Dublin is undergoing a process of ...

Over the last few days there has been much talk about price gouging in the hotel industry. No doubt such behaviour happens across all indust...

On this day, June 22, 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was called Operation Barbarossa. At least 24 million citizens of the Soviet ...

Spotted at Dunnes Stores supermarket on Newtownpark Avenue. Two misspellings in one short notice. And that in one of the most prosperous sub...

This week’s Mediahuis/INM Irish regional newspapers’ column. Michael Commane It was approximately 8.35 on Monday morning. I was about to par...

Anyone using the relatively new TFI Live app might be able to explain what the word ‘scheduled’ means when it gives the arrival time of a bu...

Yesterday Germany remembered June 17, 1953. Seventy years ago in East Berlin and across the former German Democratic Republic tens of thousa...

The Thinking Anew column in The Irish Times today Michael Commane   Shortly after beginning my job as a hospital chaplain a friend suggested...