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On the margins (23/2/2010)Ahern was hardly going to stand idly by and watch O’Dea get torn to shreds but the Greens have no such excuse. They blew their chance to demolish De Burca’s claims when they voted with Fianna Fáil to keep O’Dea in his job. When they finally came to their senses and went looking for O’Dea’s scalp, the game was up. Limerick had lost its minister.A LI... Read more |
On the margins (2/2/2010)This can’t be allowed to continue. This is our holocaust, our famine, our clerical sex abuse. This is our unspeakable thing that we must together make speakable. This is our responsibility, and if we don’t do it now, no-one else willI HAVE a six-year-old daughter and if something happened to her, I’m not sure what I’d do. I can’t even think about i... Read more |
On the margins (26/1/2010)People no longer feel safe in their own homes. The media has often been accused of hyping up crime, but where ordinary people are living in fear, their concerns must be addressed.A SHOCKING sense of fear has prevailed in Shannon in recent weeks, in the wake of violent robberies in the town. Attacks on an off-licence and three supermarkets have led ... Read more |
On the margins (19/1/2010)‘All too often when reality is dished up, warts and all, it is the journalist that is blamed for giving bad news. Yes, the new Irish society wants to put its fingers in its ears, bury its head in the sand, and sing la la la in a loud voice in the hope that all the bad things will go away.’IS IT a case that the years have finally caught up with the ... Read more |
On the margins (12/1/2010)An American woman was interviewed at Dublin Airport last week. Her flight back to the States had been cancelled and she couldn’t understand why. She had come from the east coast where winters are severe and very cold. “We just get on with it,” she said. I was set to follow the example of this unflappable American and quit complaining “and just get ... Read more |
On the Margins 05-01-10When Lenihan Snr’s liver disease became public, the question of his fitness for office was never questioned, just the same way as Lenihan Jnr’s fitness for office isn’t in question now.BRIAN Lenihan strikes you as a genuinely nice guy - of course, we would say that in Clare, wouldn’t we, because of the connections with Clare that the Lenihan clan ... Read more |
On the Margins 27-10-09Even now, bendy women all over Ireland are huddled together in third-storey lofts, stretching their way into oblivion, each of them blissfully unaware that they are standing on the cusp of the world’s next blasphemous crusade.YOGA. Sooner or later someone is going to have to deal with this whole yoga debacle. We stand today on the brink of a holy ... Read more |
On the Margins, 20-10-09‘All victims of burglaries are deeply traumatised by their respective ordeals. Add to this these people’s ages, that violence was visited on them and the fact that most live alone – the reaction leads to shrieks of horror.’A DEBATE on the issue of crime in rural Ireland has re-emerged in recent weeks, in the wake of attacks on the elderly in vario... Read more |