On a lighter note…

The weekend brought good and bad news in the world of sport. It was good to see some of the weaker counties taking part in the Ulster Hurling Championship – with Monaghan beating Donegal and London beating Tyrone. However, Antrim lost in the Football Championship to Cavan, which was disappointing, but to be honest, not [...]

Wearing the hijab in schools

There’s been a bit of talk about this today, seemingly the Department of Education has refused to issue guidelines in the past, when schools have asked whether or not it should be allowed, and now a head teacher has publicly called for it.
I’m not quite sure where I stand on this. There’s a lot of [...]

Climate Change ad campaign

I guess everyone in Ireland has now seen/heard the ads for www.change.ie, the government’s official climate change awareness campaign. I take climate change seriously, by the way. But am I the only one who thinks these ads suck? “Every generation has faced it’s own challenges…”

Sure, but what do Dev and Michael [...]

The Angelus

Why do we still have the Angelus on RTÉ? I mean seriously, hasn’t the time for that long past? I don’t usually listen to RTÉ radio, but Ray D’Arcy wasn’t on this morning and the morning talk show on Newstalk just annoys me, so I had RTÉ on. I actually switched it off when the [...]