Tag: people


  • When you find yourself stranded on an island, it is water that defines the rock you will perish on… Since the very initial murmurs of water charges coming back to the Republic of Ireland, back in 2009 when ‘the people’ were still suffering from Fianna Fail can do no wrong syndrome, there was inevitable unrest…

  • Regular readers (ahem, cough) will no doubt notice that my rate of updates has been somewhat stifled in recent times; I don’t blog like I used to anymore. So, what’s happened? Has everything in the world stopped or have I just stopped leading a life that gives rise to interest and the need to talk…

  • A clever and appropriate nomenclature coined by John Murray Brown of FT.com to summarise Ireland at the moment. Our Emerald Isle is looking more like a junk shop, jade dragon – cheap, useless, outdated, and fragile. On one hand our country is fighting the evil of wreckless developers and their associated debts while on the…