Small man towers over opponants Michael D. Higgins, after seven years of doing exactly the job he is applying for to universal acclaim, remains most people's first choice for President. To reassure those people they're right, the other candidates have been existing. The one within the
Oireachtas Free Speech Zone Irish High Court finds TDs &Senators can't have restrictions on their speech in the Oireachtas by a court. Courting Attention US Supreme Court Judge told "You're hired" in prime time TV spectacular Getting Gisty With IT Very brief email
UK Lunacy Tory party conferences are rarely pretty. But this year, the UK's Government appears to have taken note of the defeat of the Blackshirts 80 years ago today in the battle of Cable Street and decided it was time to do something about that. Specifically, they decided
Hello again! The Dáil is back in session and so are we. Police and Numbers Irish police are considering going on strike for more pay. However, it is illegal to go on strike. So they instead all call in sick at the same time. However, the CSO released figures suggesting
Banks Stressed The two main Irish banks hovered in the bottom of the EU's league table after the continent-wide stress tests that see what would happen in the event of a financial crisis. Basically, this means they were some of the most likely banks to go bust in
As neither of Ireland's news agenda setters (RTE and the Irish Times) can muster any news worth the name, tonight it's an Africa News In Gist Special. Doubtful prosecution A judge who convicted (in his absence) a notable rival to the sitting President in the Democratic
Woman wins Hilary Clinton won the Democratic Party nomination to be President. This would be ho-hum if it had been some fella. But it was the first time that anyone from the female half of the population of the earth had got such a nod. And that was a big
Glossing over repeal The Project Arts centre saw their political speech stifled by an instruction by Dublin City Council to paint over Maser’s “Repeal the 8th” mural, on planning permission grounds. No, I don’t know either. An empty sort of victory for those who would literally want to
Trump horrorshow The Republican convention peaked at 3am Irish time yesterday as plus-sized moral homoculous Donald Trump gave his acceptance speech. Earlier he gave an interview to the NY Times where he made protective NATO action dependent on the receipt of sufficient cash money from the ally states. This being
UK Doomwatch The new cabinet has been appointed in the UK and, proving that reality may be buckling, it is even more gruesome than the last one. Boris Johnson’s appointment as Foreign Secretary is basically just having a laugh. UnWarranted Hotmail In 2013, a fellow’s Hotmail was sitting
We’re Rich! Hey, the CSO say that last year Gross Domestic Product grew by, not 7% but 26.3%. This doesn’t mean that we all get bars of gold in the post as it turns out that much of those ‘Domestic’ monies are really measuring multi-national companies cash.
The Dead Movies would have us cheer for the good guys, the downtrodden, when they fight back. But there was a demonstration in Dallas last night over the routine shooting of black american citizens by their police forces. And someone or some people started shooting at the police, killing four