As we noted on Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden was expected to triumph in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, and sure enough, triumph he did. His victory was not a surprise – but the margin of it certainly was: Former Vice President Joe Biden had a big night in South Carolina, showing his promised strength […]
Former US Vice President Joe Biden holds an interesting and unenviable record. He’s run for President of the United States three times – 1988, 2008, and now in 2020. And in those three campaigns, he has never won a single primary. Not one, not ever. Since entering the present contest as the frontrunner, he’s had […]
A few short days ago, the nation’s gallant Minister for Health strode purposely out of a meeting with his officials, sleeves rolled up, frown artfully affixed to his forehead, and announced to the waiting public that he had a plan to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus: He was going to cancel a rugby match. […]
Before you get all outraged about the new report from the Central Statistics Office declaring Ireland the second most expensive country in Europe, take a minute and reflect that it’s probably not that surprising: Irish consumers pay the second highest prices in Europe, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office. The country also […]
On Saturday, more than three weeks will have passed since the General Election, and Ireland still has no obvious Government in sight. It is now expected that the next attempt by the Dáil to elect a new Taoiseach may not take place until the end of March. Yesterday, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín noted the somewhat […]
Since Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution in the middle part of the 19th century, explanations for the physical differences between men and women have been relatively constant. Thousands of years of evolution, it is generally posited, explain the differences between the sexes, because of the different roles to which our bodies […]
Between 5pm and midnight this evening, while you were enjoying your pancakes, two flights arrived at Dublin Airport from Milan, Italy. A third arrived from the southern Italian city of Bari. A commercial flight usually carries between 150-200 passengers. In other words, about 450 people arrived into Ireland from a country where thousands of people […]
When US Marines invaded Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2nd 2011, they brushed past his wife and children, moved upstairs to where the 9/11 mastermind was hiding, and shot him in the face. They then took his body with them to the USS Carl Vinson, the closest available aircraft carrier. There, […]
If you’re like me, you may have felt chills the first time you watched the 1999 movie “The Sixth Sense”. Without revealing the superb twist for those of you who have not watched it, the film revolves around six-year-old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osmont) whose mother thinks he is disturbed. Psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) […]
The American Democratic Party has something of a dilemma, as its primary season to select a candidate to take down Donald Trump kicks into high gear: Do they want to select the candidate best placed to beat Trump, or do they want a candidate who says everything they want to hear? Do they marry the […]
There are, at the time of writing, 150 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Italy. Three people have died to date. The numbers are likely to rise, as well. It is estimated that the Coronavirus has an incubation period of at least two weeks – that is to say, you could be walking around feeling in […]
Dublin’s media and political establishment always has the same explanation, when these things happen. The Department of Justice, without any consultation, or forewarning, has announced a migrant accommodation centre for a relatively small rural town. Local people are upset by it. Some politicians have spoken out. It is clear that there will be some opposition. […]