David Looby Eileen Dunne is a national treasure.
FROM Kiev to O'Connell Street, a gathering of 100,000 angry protestors is bad news for any government and definitely not good for our current incumbents who are quickly running out of time to win back the confidence of a dour and disillusioned electorate.
The good woman returned home from a hen party on Sunday afternoon to the sounds of 'Dancing at the Crossroads' blasting from the upstairs window.
Readers will recall how members of Sinn Féin drew some flak from Cllr Malcolm Byrne for the way in which the tricolour was deployed during election celebrations earlier this summer.
Time was when stonemasons were plentiful. Squads of 40 masons (or more) were called up to work on major sites such as St. Peter's College in Wexford or the Catholic parish church in New Ross. Here was a skill in wide demand up to the Great War, before advances in building technology consigned the trade to the redundant ranks shared with the ploughman and cattle drover... Or did it?
The schools are off and summer is well and truly here, as minds turn toward holidays, home or abroad, for a matter of weeks or day trips.
Like any good performer, Cllr. Denis Kennedy had his prop ready to hand as prepared to do his turn at Monday's council meeting in Carricklawn.
Wednesday: The good woman told me she wanted to blindfold me tonight.
In June 2012 I wrote in this column about the situation in Syria, at which point the death toll had reached 19,000. In April this year I again wrote about Syria and the death toll had reached 70,000. This is my third piece on Syria and the death toll has exceeded 100,000.
The Chairperson of the Wexford Branch of the National Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (NCHWT) has defended the effectiveness of a recent demonstration, despite it being illegal and mainly affecting other ordinary citizens who were just trying to go about their business.
Dear Sir, I wish to take issue with what Ger Walsh has written in his article 'Church's predictable abortion reaction, but have they really thought it through'.
ANNE CARTON runs one the county's oldest family run auctioneering firms, P N O'Gorman Ltd.
'Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water' – the famous tag-line from the 'Jaws' films sprung to mind last week when the Boston Marathon bombing hit the news.
DEBORAH COLEMAN ITHOUGHT it was some sort of tasteless joke to learn of the motion carried at Kerry County Council last week that members will lobby the Minister for Justice to grant permits to rural dwellers to drink and drive.
THE KILLERS of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe showed no mercy when they shot the father-of-two at close range. Senior officers say the armed robbers, who gunned him down in cold blood with a shotgun, were intent on murdering him as he approached them at the Lordship Credit Union outside Dundalk.
Justine SIREALLY don't understand what all the fuss is about regarding the detection of horsemeat in burgers recently. I've eaten far worse than horse meat - my cooking in general is pretty gruesome, and it's never done me any harm! I went through a phase when I was in...
