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Nama and the N26 – where sound is travelling faster than light
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The rain it falleth on the just
And also on the unjust fella
But chiefly on the just because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella
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Ireland inc. has a problem with a jammed cursor so................
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
IN the course of technical advance from typewriter to computer and all the new technology of word processing, I have encountered blips in setting a story that were never imagined in the era of hot metal production of newspapers left behind in the rush to online circulation which now threatens the very existence of paper and ink traditional marriages and their issues.
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More days of whine and poses
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
IN his novel The Go Between, L.P. Hartley penned the phrase: “The past is a different country; they do things differently there.” Unfortunately, that’s not the case as far as party and church politics in Ireland are concerned when it comes to holding on to power.
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Fine Gael runs aground on a Lee shore
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Last week the INLA recognised the inevitable force of public opinion and handed in its weapons.
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Beware of the insidious lethe virus
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A CONCERNED friend in the Centre for Disease Control has drawn my attention to troubling signs of yet another epidemic of the virulent Irish strain of a virus commonly known in the profession as the Lethe transmitted virus, which is much more alarming in its effects than the swine fever pandemic to which it is related.
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Alice in Blunderland story of our politicians
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
IF you need the ludicrous to divert your thoughts away from the tragic, consider the grandstanding witnessed in Dáil Eireann over Haitian relief measures.
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Evidence of stockholm syndrome in poll?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
WITH the first opinion poll of 2010 in the Irish Times showing Fianna Fáil with a 22 per cent rating – an increase of two points following a tough Budget – we may be looking at the first Irish effects of the Stockholm Syndrome.
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We need leadership to feel good once again
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
LAST week the calls continued to mount for an investigation into the causes of the banking crisis as a preliminary to sanctioning any rescue strategy for the economy put forward by the very people held to have led us into such massive car-crash economics and who want taxpayers to foot the bill which has been racked up by political and banking incompetence.
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2010 – the year of grit and gritted-teeth
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
THE nineteenth century economist Walter Bagehot once observed that writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders and 100 years on from his death the aptness of that division can be applied to current coverage of the combination of freakish events that made Christmas 2009 such a remarkable year.
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Revolution and bishop bashing
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
ONE of the striking observations made in the decadent days of the sixties when social revolution was the order of the day came from veteran commentator Malcolm Muggeridge when he wrote: “The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.”
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Rouse that dormant spirit now!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
THIS column never had any illusions about the self-serving grease with which Fianna Fail eased its way into a stranglehold on the governance of this country but I was still shocked at the revelations of the sleazy corruption of public responsibility at the highest level so searingly revealed by that RTE investigative programme into the incestuous relationships between reckless and greedy bankers and the power craze of an amoral administration.
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Coming apart at the seams
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
THE cumulative scandals of clerical sexual abuse that have rocked the Catholic church are the strongest revelation yet of the widening gap between the institutional church and the laity it purported to serve through Christlike example.
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‘The Sorrowful Situation Of The Irish’
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
If you were looking around for a pithy summation last week of the combination of lay, clerical and natural disasters you might have hit on the wording of Pope Benedict’s invitation to Irish church leaders to visit him in Rome to discuss the scandal of clerical abuse uncovered by the Ryan report, on how the Archdiocese of Dublin failed in its duty of care towards the innocence of minors entrusted to religious institutions.
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We are at a moment in history
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
In a homily preached on June 29, 1972, Pope Paul spoke of the post-Vatican II period as a day of clouds, storms and darkness which he attributed to the work of the devil in the memorable phrase: “The smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God” - a saying much quoted by those who opposed the council but which now springs to mind when surveying the moral wreckage in the wake of the Murphy report into the clerical rape and abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese.
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Panto has moved to Dáil Eireann
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
ONE of the reasons pantomime has gone out of business is because local slapstick has given up trying to compete with the productions in Leinster House subsidised by the taxpayer.
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