Was it for posters?

And so it begins. Lampposts across Ireland are today festooned (or infested, depending on your preference) with the smiling and not-so-smiling faces of our modern day gladiators, vying for a connection with our ballot-booth pencils. As usual, most look like they...
How an Irish election works

How an Irish election works

In the first of our unrivalled* coverage of the Irish General Election 2016, we cover the system. You don’t get this kind of coverage in the Irish Times ** Whilst I’m no Tim Roll Pickering, I am a constantly bemused observer of Irish politics, and I have...
You don’t need an Apple Watch

You don’t need an Apple Watch

You don’t need an Apple Watch, and this quick guide will show you why. The internet is basically made up of people being annoyed you disagree with them.  In that fashion, please allow me to present the best arguments I can think of for not giving Apple even more...

Welcome to 2013. I’m blogging again.

Hello. I’ve been away for a long time. I’ve been writing a book and it’s almost done, so I thought I’d try to get back into the spirit of things, now my dalliance with blogging among more notable luminaries on Iain Dale’s site has ended....

Ireland and the Universal Periodic Review

Ireland today subjected itself to the most palpably insane political process imaginable. Taking part in the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD, faced questions from Ireland’s peers, the nations of the...