I was looking for some comedy sketches when I cam across this, thought it was worth posting, NI being in the news an’ all. A Protestant ( John Byrne ) & A Catholic ( Kevin McAleer ) are sitting in a pub in Northern Ireland. They confess to bigotry in the past, but applaud the [...]

Well obviously the big news of the day (ok, i’m half an hour late, it’s Friday here) is the IRA statement. It’s been covered everywhere BBC, RTÉ, the Guardian and a dozen others. You’ll get some good analysis and commentary from the blogs: Slugger, Balrog, United Irelander, Most Sincerely Folks … that’ll get you started [...]

At a conference over the weekend Young Fine Gael ripped into the Government for presiding over a rip-off culture[registration cheat] over recent years. And aren’t they right? I hope the message is sent come next election, though don’t we usually continue to vote the greatest gobshites into Government time and time again? I don’t claim [...]

Bairbre de Brún became the first person to address the European Parliment in Irish today following the decision to make Irish a working language. About EU has all the details including the speech text. I didn’t think anyone was allowed to use Irish in the EP just yet, I thought it wasn’t coming in to [...]

Now this interets me. Michael McDowell’s expected to announce details of a multi-million Euro package for childcare services thoughout the country. Reports say the funding would be used to encourage groups to set up after school childcare services in school buildings. Thinking about moving back to Ireland one of the biggest concerns for me is [...]

The Irish & British Governments are to fund a forensic expert who will be tasked with finding the bodies of 5 young men who were murdered and secretly buried by the IRA back in the 70′s and early 80′s. Some of the candidates being looked at have experience in locating bodies in Bosnia and also [...]

Shocking news (sorry, pathetic I know but I couldn’t resist), an all-island electricity market is on the way.