An Irishman's DiaryIn a sobering coincidence, Allied Irish Banks and the bookmaking firm Paddy Power both announced their 2006 results this week…Fri Mar 09 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIf real-estate agents ever get their hands on Christiania, Copenhagen's self-proclaimed "free state", the property ads will make…Thu Mar 08 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt's rather surprising that it took the Abbey 103 years to put on Julius Caesar, if only because of the play's historical relevance…Wed Feb 21 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt cut me to the quick a few months ago when I realised what my son Daniel's first word wasThu Feb 08 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn Muslim cities, it's the wail of the muezzin calling people to prayFri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe image of actress Drew Barrymore romping naked through a cornfield is of course every Irish tillage farmer's nightmareTue Jan 23 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWe hear a lot about spending figures at Christmas: from bullish predictions beforehand that retailers are on course for an all…Thu Jan 18 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhen Marshall McLuhan predicted the rise of a "global village", wireless microphones and the electric typewriter were the cutting…Wed Jan 17 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryNews that the United Arts Club is celebrating its centenary, welcome as that is, reminds us indirectly of one of the things Ireland…Tue Jan 16 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThere has always been a quasi-religious element to the Apple computer movement, but it seems to have been particularly pronounced…Thu Jan 11 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe Daily Telegraph's fashion correspondent had a yearning tone when she wrote recently about something called "country chic". …Wed Jan 10 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryHands up those of you who ever read the introductions to classic novels? Hmm, just as I thoughtTue Jan 09 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe Wall Street Journal published a survey on European etiquette last week and, not surprisingly, found major differences across…Wed Dec 20 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryOne of the unforeseen consequences of the smoking ban has been a revival in the old Irish custom of standing around in the street…Thu Dec 14 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryA sign of the times, extracted from an ad in the current issue of Dublin's Northside PeopleThu Dec 07 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryProfiling yet another Irish aviation mogul recently, the Financial Times asked: "Is it something in the water?" The writer was…Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryImagine the shock of the Irishman's Diary when it read this paper's front-page digest on Monday and saw the following, under …Thu Nov 30 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryMy dentist retired recently, more than a decade after acquiring me as a patientWed Nov 29 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryCan nothing at all be done to halt the spread of golf? There was a while there when I had high hopes for global warming, which…Tue Nov 28 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIf that survey on the time a typical mother spends preparing for Christmas (13 days) is accurate, many women will already have…Fri Nov 24 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI thought the Chief State Pathologist was exaggerating a bit when, in an interview in this paper at the weekend, she expressed…Wed Nov 22 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe latest installation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art looks for all the world like a circusTue Nov 21 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt probably wasn't a factor in persuading Google to set up hereFri Nov 17 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI took the plunge at the supermarket recently and tried out its new scan-as-you-go systemThu Nov 16 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe march of science is probably unstoppable and, for the most part, this is a good thingWed Nov 15 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt was a Proustian moment the other day when I was reading the business supplement and saw a half-page recruitment ad for a firm…Tue Nov 14 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryNext to "How'r'ya?" the most popular question in Irish life must surely be: "Where did the time go?" Of course, this is usually…Thu Nov 02 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI see that the latest dance craze for parents of teenagers to waste time worrying about is something called "freaking"Thu Oct 26 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhat has the humble pencil ever done to offend Bertie Ahern? SeriouslyWed Oct 25 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAny reporter who has ever struggled to hear what is being said in a courtroom will have enjoyed Tuesday's misunderstanding between…Thu Oct 19 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryThere is one good thing about the American-led commercialisation of HalloweenWed Oct 18 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryA word of advice to poster shops and other businesses specialising in inspirational wall-hangingsTue Oct 17 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryConcerned reader Bob Fitzgerald has submitted the attached photograph, taken recently near a village in Kerry, and invites the…Wed Oct 11 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWith the possible exclusion of events in the National Maternity Hospital, it was the highlight of my life so far when the students…Tue Oct 10 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn Joyce's short story Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Ireland appears as fallen as the great leader on whose anniversary the …Fri Oct 06 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryOne vital detail of Tuesday's Dáil debate on payments to the Taoiseach has not attracted the attention it deservesThu Oct 05 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhenever I watch TG4 these days, I find myself wrestling yet again with the old question: does speaking Irish make you good-looking…Wed Oct 04 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn the toilet of a posh Dublin pub at the weekend, I searched in vain for a towel or a hot-air dispenser to dry my handsTue Oct 03 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryToday marks an important milestone in the memory of a man widely regarded as the worst poet in the history of EnglishFri Sept 29 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe 2006 Ryder Cup was an organisational triumph, no question. Congratulations are due to everyone involved at the K ClubTue Sept 26 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI don't know what I ever did to encourage them, but the people at Marketing magazine send me a free copy of their publication…Fri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryOne of the glories of France - at least if you're touring it with children - is that every self-respecting town has a carousel…Fri Sept 08 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn the Protestant cemetery of my home town, there's a gravestone to a man who died in the 1930sThu Sept 07 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI'm sorry I missed the Electric Picnic. It seems to have been the music festival of the summerWed Sept 06 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAs chance would have it, one of the books I read on the family holiday was Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, his account of a trip…Tue Sept 05 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryThose depressing Leaving Cert results took some of the gloss off what has been a very exciting week for mathematics, with the…Thu Aug 17 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryBertie Ahern deserves understanding rather than scorn over his controversial appearance at the building site of a new Kerry hotel…Fri Aug 11 2006 - 01:00
Why pray to one saint when 14 are listening today?Feeling a bit queasy after the long weekend? Tense and irritable because of queues at Dublin Airport? Driven out of your mind…Tue Aug 08 2006 - 01:00
