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With a bit of luck, Ireland’s bankers are getting a little bit nervous this weekend with a pledge by the incoming taoiseach Enda Kenny to la...

It must be very much like cleaning up a house after a flood and equally dispiriting. Today, voters in the Republic go to the polls to vote i...

One consequence of this job is that you do tend to have heard it all before. Add to that the fact that whichever way I look at it, I shall n...

What with the unprecedented unrest sweeping the Middle East, it would be perverse of me not to add my two ha’porth worth. So let me instead ...

Irony of irony: there’s great excitement in the media that an Iraqi defector has come clean and admitted he lied about Saddam Hussein having...

Interesting news this week about a possible ‘giant planet’ being discovered. It is said to be apparently part of our solar system but is so ...

Rather a silly situation at work today, with which you might well be familiar even if you don’t work for a newspaper. The situation on the t...

After I told the anecdote I had heard about Piers Morgan lording it over his one-time deputy, a regular reader has commented that she was gl...

There are times when a beautiful piece of music demands to be pissed about with. This is one of my favourite short pieces. and when I hear i...

Now here’s an odd thing: New York’s esteemed Times is undoubtedly a heavyweight and serious newspaper of record. It is unlikely to carry rep...