Ag Surfail
What do housekeeping and 'footing turf' have in common? Well, it turns out your computer can do both.
[Read Ag Surfail].
Euros By Any Other Name
Have you managed the euro conversion yet?
[Read Euros By Any Other Name].
Generation Gap
So there I was, down the country for a country wedding, and after the belt-bursting meal and the speeches they finally wheeled out the band, and for the first few rocknrolly songs the young ones bopped away.
[Read Generation Gap].
Godwin's Law
He may not have realised it, but when Michael McDowell compared a Fine Gael TD to a Nazi, he was breaking one of the basic rules of debate.
[Read Godwin's Law].
Missing the Point
Free Speech is meant to offend.
[Read Missing the Point].
Risky Business
'If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.' - Gus Grissom, 1926-1967, killed when Apollo I exploded while waiting for take-off.
[Read Risky Business].
Ros na Rún Abú!
Have you noticed how Eamon Ó Cuiv seems to look and sound more like his grandfather with every passing year? It can be a terrible distraction when you're trying to listen to what he's saying rather than how he's saying it.
[Read Ros na Rún Abú!].
Smoke and Mirrors
On a quick holiday trip abroad a few weeks ago, I stopped into a shop to buy a few nick-nacks. The assistant reached down to hand me a plastic bag, and almost by reflex I said 'It's ok, I don't need it', before I even had time to think.
[Read Smoke and Mirrors].
The Brother Can't Look at an Egg
So there's myself, an Englishman, and a Scotsman, and we're discussing the good old days. The Scotsman is relating how when he was a 'bairn', the teachers would give him a whack for speaking Scots Gaelic.
[Read The Brother...]
The Donegal Top Ten
The BBC has been making a lot in the last week of its list of '100 Top Britons', with various fans exhorting viewers to vote for their own idols from the Top Ten. Some of the Irish national newspapers even got in on the act last Sunday, building their own lists of 100 Top Irish and so on.
[Read The Donegal Top Ten].
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Whenever Americans asked me why I'd left such a beautiful country and county to live in the concrete jungles, I used remind them of the old Connemara proverb: 'You can't eat the scenery.'
[Read Wake Up and Smell the Coffee].
Wanted! Irish Speakers to Work for EU
Gaeilgeoirs could be in for a lucrative new job - as proofreaders from the EU.