Occasional Scribbles

Former prisons minister in the Conservative government, Rory Stewart is currently presenting T he Long History of Ignorance:  From Confucius...

This article is from the National Catholic Reporter. There are many priests and bishops too who support Trump. The Trump phenomenon is extra...

The Irish Times on Saturday carried a story titled 'Irish drugs trade grows its links with Colombia'. The article, written by Conor ...

When England beat the West Germans in the World Cup in the summer of 1966 Harold Wilson was prime minister. A Labour government had been in ...

On this day, July 10, 1927 Kevin O’Higgins TD, vice-president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State was assassinated by the IRA. ...

This week’s Mediahuis Irish regional newspaper’ column. Michael Commane Standing at a bus shelter earlier this week I spotted an advertiseme...

Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you my God.     -Lines from Psalm 41

US President, Joe Biden in his interview on CBS on Friday said that it would only be the ‘Lord Almighty' who could make him drop out of ...

The article below, which appeared in the magazine section of last weekend’s Financial Times, was written by Patrick Freyne, who is a feature...

Fr Brendan Hoban writing in The Western People. One of my favourite columnists is Liz Dodd who writes for The Tablet, an English Catholic pa...

Kathy Sheridan’s column in The Irish Times yesterday. Recommended reading for priests and bishops. Some will recognise the feeling. That vis...

Polish and German government leaders met in Warsaw yesterday. The main item on the agenda was to improve relations between the two nations, ...

This week’s Mediahuis Irish regional newspapers’ column. Michael Commane Michael Healy-Rae came to mind in recent days. His cap, his dress, ...