Bock The Robber

What’s the difference between Maynooth and Templemore?  What’s the difference in structure between an Garda Síochána and the Roman Catholic church? The answer is – surprisingly little. The training of Irish [...]

What’s the difference between a Catholic priest and a doctor or a lawyer? Well, apart from the fact that a priest has no practical training in anything, the main difference [...]

Are you self-employed?   Did you ever take on a job, do the work as agreed and then find that your customer either went missing or came up with some [...]

The Mahon Tribunal report is due out shortly, so this is going to be a dynamically changing post as information emerges. This is the day we find out what Mahon [...]

I wrote last week about Claire Nolan, a convicted drug dealer, who was found guilty of deliberately crushing a man to death with her car.    Today, Claire Nolan was [...]

I don’t know if Galway solicitor Patrick M Keane is the same Paddy Keane I used to know years ago, but if he is, he hasn’t lost his black sense [...]

Is there anything that shows up the stupidity of the Ahern years better than the e-voting debacle? Back in 2002, they paid €50 million for 7,000 e-voting machines, which works [...]

Time for civil service to use plain words

A few useful facts about your legal protection as a consumer

It doesn’t matter, apparently, how many talented, creative, committed citizens come together to produce ideas for the rejuvenation of the planning-blighted Patrick Street area of Limerick.  The City Council has [...]