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July 7, 2012

The God Particle

Scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre believe they have found one of the basic building blocks of the universe — a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. The Director General of CERN told an audience of scientists that the discovery is a milestone in mankind’s understanding of nature and has opened up exciting prospects for […]

June 30, 2012

The Badger

This quiet animal is seldom in the news unless, like humans, it has been accused of something wrong! It was with a sense of relief from all the reports of human ills that I seized upon an article in today’s paper on our native nocturnal species. Written by a local naturalist its secret life was […]

June 23, 2012

Cults becoming kosher

An air of respectability has grown up around the two best know American belief systems that have crossed the Atlantic. Indeed the contender for the US Presidency is a Mormon and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are now well established in Ireland. The latter were in the news this week for all the wrong reasons. A child […]

June 16, 2012

The Beautiful Game.

As one commentator said the morning after the fateful defeat by Spain – “No-one died!” True supporters of the game would not have been comforted by this as they recalled Bill Shankly’s immortal words, “Football is not a matter of life or death; it’s far more serious than that.” To have progressed through all the […]

June 9, 2012

Justifying Himself.

We had a good example of something we all do from a member of our parliament this week. He had fiddled his tax and confessed before it became public. Except it wasn’t his tax, he himself was tax compliant, but his limited liability company (of which he is the sole director and CEO) that had […]

June 2, 2012

Diamond Jubilee

Few can resist telling the story of their brush with monarchy. It might have only a glimpse of the monarch passing in a car but there seems to be some innate attraction to the institution which is the secret envy of republicans and a source of quiet pride in her subjects! My own engagement with […]

May 26, 2012

Bullying Lady Gaga

Not that anyone would these days but her schooling was marred by it. Now at 26 as a Pop-star with the most twitter followers, she was at Harvard University recently inaugurating her Foundation aimed at tackling bullying. During her teens she recalls, “I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge […]

May 19, 2012

Browne’s Bible Bashing

In an article under the heading “Bible not the rule book on gay marriage” the Journalist poured scorn on Archbishop Diarmuid Martin quoting from Genesis. In response to a question, sparked from Obama’s declaration in favour of gay marriage, as to what his view might be he replied, “the church’s teaching on the sanctity of […]

May 12, 2012

Obama’s Evolution.

Obama has come out! His thinking has evolved. Gay marriage is OK. No longer will Gay’s have to be content with Civil Unions they will become old married couples like the rest of us. Except they wont be like the rest of us. They will all be “DINKS” – double income, no kids. That is […]

May 5, 2012

Cardinal sins.

What do you call a decent man who is caught up in sins committed 37 years ago? – Seán Brady. It’s impossible not to feel sympathy for him as he is hounded by the media to the very door of his cathedral. In any other situation resignation would clear the air, give a modicum of […]

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