Joe Horgan

FROM this side of the Irish Sea the result of the British election seemed very much to suggest that the voice of the British people had spoken and said: “We don’t particularly give our trust or our backing to any of you.”

One voice among many

19 May 2010

Writing back from Ireland these days, to those living outside of the island, it is hard at times not to give what seems like a merely hypercritical, jaundiced view of a country that is still, essentially, a wonderful place to live.

Money the be all and end all

05 May 2010

I RECALL that one of the enduring claims against those who opposed privilege, the ascendancy of the business classes and the worship of the entrepreneur was that they were involved in the politics of envy and that they just did not do joined-up thinking.

Founding fathers would be horrified

28 April 2010

THINKING back again on something I touched upon last week, namely the TD Ned O’Keeffe’s objection to the Financial Regulator on the grounds of his being an Englishman, I actually realised that the blundering, objectionable O’Keeffe may well have stumbled upon something.

Just who dictates who is Irish?

21 April 2010

A 15-year-old schoolboy was stabbed to death in Dublin recently.